Sierra-at-Tahoe snow report today
No snow on the ground at the Echo Peak gauge (7,650 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 Echo Peak SNOTEL gauge, 3.4 miles north of Sierra-at-Tahoe at 7,650 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 | 0.4 in |
| Air temperature | 38°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).
Sierra-at-Tahoe’s own snow report
Sierra-at-Tahoe’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 sierraattahoe.com, posted by the resort each morning in season. What is here is measured independently, by the federal gauge on or near the mountain.
Sierra-at-Tahoe opening day: No date yet.Sierra-at-Tahoe has not set an opening day. Its own site says it opens once there is enough snow, typically late November to early December.
Chains on the way to Sierra-at-Tahoe now
Echo Summit now
No chain controls at Echo Summit (Caltrans). Checked .
Spooner Summit now
No chain controls at Spooner Summit (NDOT). Checked .
Do I need chains on Echo Summit? · Echo Summit webcam · Spooner Summit webcam · Do I need chains to get to Sierra-at-Tahoe from Sacramento?
Snow, next 72 hours at Sierra-at-Tahoe: none · How much snow is Sierra-at-Tahoe getting: the 72-hour forecast →
Where the snow is measured
The gauge is SNOTEL station Echo Peak (463:CA:SNTL), run by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It stands 3.4 miles north of Sierra-at-Tahoe at 7,650 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 Sierra-at-Tahoe
The state highway cameras closest to the resort, on US-50 at Echo Summit and Twin Bridges. They show the road and the snow along it; the resort’s own slope cameras are on sierraattahoe.com.
Live video, confirmed streaming at ; still image taken .
Sierra-at-Tahoe, its snow gauge and the highway cameras around it.
The road to Sierra-at-Tahoe
On US-50 west of South Lake Tahoe: through Meyers and over Echo Summit (7,382 feet), then about 2 miles down the far side to the resort road. From Reno, the usual way is US-50 over Spooner Summit to the lake, roughly 75 miles in all.
Road conditions, chain controls and every camera: 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 · Kirkwood · Sugar Bowl · Boreal · Diamond Peak · Homewood.
- When does Sierra-at-Tahoe open? Opening day and lifts
- Sierra-at-Tahoe snow forecast for the next 72 hours
- Tahoe ski resort opening dates
Snow on the ground: USDA NRCS SNOTEL station Echo Peak (463: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 Sierra-at-Tahoe.