All 26 lift-served alpine areas in California, each measured from its own lifts. The biggest is Heavenly Mountain Resort at 3,297 feet of vertical.
| Resort | Base ft | Summit ft | Vertical ft | Lifts | Lift km | Footprint ac | NDJFM mm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavenly Mountain Resort | 6,643 | 9,940 | 3,297 | 19 | 18.6 | 3,865 | 623 |
| Mammoth Mountain | 8,070 | 10,986 | 2,916 | 26 | 27.3 | 2,936 | 836 |
| June Mountain | 7,567 | 10,120 | 2,553 | 6 | 7.0 | 646 | 426 |
| Palisades Tahoe Olympic Valley | 6,204 | 8,492 | 2,288 | 24 | 26.0 | 5,027 | 1,164 |
| Northstar at Tahoe Resort | 6,326 | 8,608 | 2,282 | 14 | 17.2 | 2,264 | 1,051 |
| Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort | 6,634 | 8,839 | 2,205 | 6 | 6.0 | 759 | 1,233 |
| Kirkwood Mountain Resort | 7,800 | 9,458 | 1,658 | 11 | 10.5 | 1,170 | 1,256 |
| Homewood Ski Area | 6,241 | 7,883 | 1,642 | 6 | 4.8 | 539 | 986 |
| Bear Mountain | 7,149 | 8,784 | 1,635 | 7 | 6.3 | 462 | 548 |
| Mountain High | 6,563 | 8,136 | 1,573 | 10 | 7.4 | 882 | 511 |
| China Peak Mountain Resort | 7,055 | 8,624 | 1,569 | 7 | 6.6 | 478 | 871 |
| Dodge Ridge Ski Area | 6,570 | 8,139 | 1,569 | 8 | 7.0 | 896 | 1,250 |
| Donner Ski Ranch | 6,927 | 8,368 | 1,441 | 8 | 6.5 | 1,777 | 1,385 |
| Mt. Shasta Ski Park | 5,465 | 6,861 | 1,396 | 3 | 3.0 | 533 | 1,008 |
| Snow Summit | 6,968 | 8,175 | 1,207 | 10 | 8.5 | 346 | 485 |
| Palisades Tahoe Alpine Meadows | 7,102 | 8,249 | 1,147 | 3 | 2.1 | 231 | 1,444 |
| Snow Valley Mountain Resort | 6,717 | 7,843 | 1,126 | 11 | 6.2 | 249 | 572 |
| Mt. Baldy | 7,556 | 8,571 | 1,015 | 3 | 2.0 | 315 | 768 |
| Mount Waterman | 6,959 | 7,950 | 991 | 3 | 1.4 | 80 | 712 |
| Bear Valley | 7,736 | 8,489 | 753 | 6 | 3.6 | 456 | 1,304 |
| Badger Pass Ski Area | 7,226 | 7,782 | 556 | 4 | 2.5 | 79 | 1,003 |
| Soda Springs | 6,759 | 7,288 | 529 | 2 | 1.1 | 29 | 1,367 |
| Boreal Mountain Resort | 7,162 | 7,674 | 512 | 5 | 3.4 | 482 | 1,370 |
| Tahoe Donner Downhill Ski Area | 6,780 | 7,270 | 490 | 2 | 1.1 | 31 | 892 |
| Alta Sierra Ski Resort | 6,666 | 7,055 | 389 | 2 | 0.7 | 11 | 675 |
| Cedar Pass | 6,046 | 6,407 | 361 | 1 | 0.4 | 156 | 415 |
Base and summit are the lowest and highest lift terminal, read off AWS terrain tiles. Footprint acreage is the ground inside the hull of the lift lines — a lower bound on marketed acreage. NDJFM mm is the PRISM 1991–2020 November–March precipitation normal, averaged over the mountain's bands.