Kirkwood snow report today
No snow on the ground at the Carson Pass gauge (8,360 ft) at 1 AM PDT. No change in 24 hours; no change in 48 hours; no change in 7 days. Gauge read .
Snow depth from the USDA Carson Pass SNOTEL gauge, 3.4 miles east of Kirkwood at 8,360 ft, read every hour.
| On the ground | none |
|---|---|
| Change in 24 hours | no change |
| Change in 48 hours | no change |
| Change in 7 days | no change |
| Water in the snow | 0.1 in (-0.1 in 24 h) |
| Air temperature | 32°F |
Opening-day alerts
A notification on this device on opening day, early in the morning, with a link to the resort’s own report. Pick your resorts:
For Mt. Rose, Sugar Bowl and Diamond Peak it comes the morning their lift page first shows a lift running; for the others, the morning of the opening day they announced, whether or not it holds. It is a heads-up, not the resort’s report: check the resort’s own site for hours and terrain before you go. One alert per resort; no account, no email, and you can turn them off here any time (what we keep).
Kirkwood’s own snow report
Kirkwood’s terms of use do not allow its site to be read by a program, so this page does not copy its report. Its base depth, new snow, lifts and trails open, grooming and surface conditions are on kirkwood.com, posted by the resort each morning in season. What is here is measured independently, by the federal gauge on or near the mountain.
Kirkwood opening day: Target Dec 4.Kirkwood's opening day is Friday, December 4, as posted on kirkwood.com.
Chains on the way to Kirkwood now
Carson Pass now
No chain controls at Carson Pass (Caltrans). Checked .
Do I need chains on Carson Pass? · SR-88 Carson Pass webcams · Do I need chains to get to Kirkwood from Sacramento?
Snow, next 72 hours at Kirkwood: none · How much snow is Kirkwood getting: the 72-hour forecast →
Where the snow is measured
The gauge is SNOTEL station Carson Pass (1067:CA:SNTL), run by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It stands 3.4 miles east of Kirkwood at 8,360 ft and reports every hour: snow depth from a sonic sensor over the ground, the water held in the snow from a pressure pillow, and the air temperature.
“New snow” here is how much deeper the snow is than 24 hours, 48 hours and 7 days earlier. Fresh snow settles as it lands and melts on warm afternoons, so a rise is the least that fell, and a fall can mean melt rather than wind. When a storm comes and goes inside the week, the deepest reading of the week is shown with its time. A reading older than six hours is not shown as current: the page says when the gauge last reported instead.
Webcams near Kirkwood
The state highway cameras closest to the resort, on SR-88. They show the road and the snow along it; the resort’s own slope cameras are on kirkwood.com.
Live video, confirmed streaming at ; still image taken .
- US-50 at Twin Bridges
- US-50 at Sierra at Tahoe / Echo Lake Eastbound
- US-50 at Wrights Lake
- Hwy 50 at Wrights Lake 2
Kirkwood Mountain Resort, its snow gauge and the highway cameras around it.
The road to Kirkwood
The farthest of these from Reno, about 95 miles: US-395 south through Carson Valley to Minden, then SR-88 west up the West Carson River canyon and over Carson Pass (8,574 feet). From South Lake Tahoe the way in is SR-89 over Luther Pass to SR-88.
Road conditions, chain controls and every camera: SR-88 · US-395 · US-50.
Snow reports for the other Tahoe resorts
All ten side by side: the Tahoe snow report. One page each: Heavenly · Palisades Tahoe · Northstar · Mt. Rose · Sugar Bowl · Boreal · Diamond Peak · Sierra-at-Tahoe · Homewood.
- When does Kirkwood open? Opening day and lifts
- Kirkwood snow forecast for the next 72 hours
- Tahoe ski resort opening dates
Snow on the ground: USDA NRCS SNOTEL station Carson Pass (1067:CA:SNTL), public domain, provisional data, read hourly. Resort report: linked, not copied. Chain control: Caltrans and NDOT, read every five minutes. Nevada Explorer is not affiliated with Kirkwood Mountain Resort.