Mt. Hood Skibowl
Mt. Hood Skibowl is a ski area located in the state of Oregon in USA. The resort is in the town of Mount Hood Parkdale, OR.
We recently ranked all of Oregon's ski resorts, so you can see where Mt. Hood Skibowl stacks up against all its nearby ski hills!
Season Passes
Mt. Hood Skibowl is a part of the INDY Ski Pass system. This allows you to buy one lift pass, and ski at all of the slopes that are also a part of the group.
Mt. Hood Skibowl is a part of the Powder Alliance pass network. This pass allows you to buy a season ticket at your home slope, then be able to use it to ski up to three free days at the rest of the participating resorts.
Lodging Options
There are numerous options to stay at Mt. Hood Skibowl around the resort. Check out the available options with the form below.
Mt. Hood Skibowl Terrain Overview
Mt. Hood Skibowl has a total of 69 ski trails, which are serviced by 10 ski lifts, gondolas and/or trams. The amount of skiable area in this park is huge, with a maximum of 960 acres available to skiers. This area is equivalent to 389 hectares, 1.5 square miles, or 3.9 square kilometers.
Mt. Hood Skibowl's slopes see on average 246 inches (6.2 meters) of snowfall a year. That is almost 20 feet every year!
Total Runs
69
Lifts
10
Skiable Acres
960(4 km2)
Annual Snowfall
246"(625 cm)
Mt. Hood Skibowl Elevation
Mt. Hood Skibowl has a summit elevation of 5,100 feet, or 1,554 meters. However, not all of that elevation is able to be skied. The base of the ski slope sits at 3,600 feet above sea level, creating a ski hill that is 1,500 feet (457 meters) high. This is referred to as the slope's vertical drop - or a measure of how high the skiable hill is.
Mt. Hood Skibowl's summit elevation is higher than average. There are a lot of ski slopes that are much higher than this one (some stretch to 12,000 feet!), but it is not small by any stretch of the imagination.
Summit Elevation
5,100'(1,554 m)
Vertical Drop
1,500'(457 m)
Base Elevation
3,600'(1,097 m)
Mt. Hood Skibowl Difficulty Level
Difficulty Score™
53.1out of 100
DID YOU KNOW?
At Parks & Trips, we've created a proprietary Difficulty Score that attempts to show how difficult a particular ski slope is. We get to this number by combining a number of metrics for each resort and comparing them to its peers. Most of the score is based off the amount of easy-intermediate-expert slopes by acreage and the maximum vertical drop of the overall resort, but also includes a few lesser-used metrics as well.
Our algorithm compares each resort’s metrics with all others in North America, then assigns each a Difficulty Score, which we use to rank them accordingly. Resorts with a lower score are easier to ski than those with a higher one. However, a high score does not mean that the resort does not have any easy slopes, or vice versa. This is just an overall score given to the resort based on all its metrics grouped together.
Skiable Terrain by Difficulty Level
Mt. Hood Skibowl has 960 total skiable acres, which can be broken down into the three main groups of difficulty: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.
Mt. Hood Skibowl is a beginner-friendly ski area, with about 20% of its trails as easy. However, it also has a fair share of more difficult runs - which account for the remaining 80%.
Beginner
20%(192 acres)
Beginner trails (identified by a green circle) are the easiest trails on the hill with a gradual 25% or less gradient, and are usually wide to accommodate beginner skiers.
Intermediate
40%(384 acres)
Intermediate trails (identified by a blue square) are usually the most popular and crowded runs, which have a slope of anywhere between 25-40%.
Expert
40%(384 acres)
Expert trails (identified by a black diamond... or two) are the hardest slopes on the mountain, and have very steep gradients over 40%.
Is Mt. Hood Skibowl good for beginners?
Mt. Hood Skibowl can be beginner-friendly, depending on the runs you take. While it ranks in the lower half of all North American ski areas in terms of overall difficulty, it still has 80% of its trails rated at or above intermediate.
Mt. Hood Skibowl Location
Mt. Hood Skibowl is located in the state of Oregon, USA. This ski area is nearest the town of Mount Hood Parkdale, OR.
Address:
Mount Hood Parkdale, OR 97041 USA
View on Google Maps
Website:
skibowl.com
GPS Coordinates:
45.37000, -121.70000
Getting to Mt. Hood Skibowl
By Car: If you are driving, you would set your GPS to either the ski resort's name (Mt. Hood Skibowl), its coordinates of 45.37000, -121.70000 (latitude, longitude), or simply drive towards the town of Mount Hood Parkdale, OR to get close.
By Air: If you are coming in from across the country, then you may need to board an airplane to get here.
A large airport has scheduled major airline service with millions of passengers per year. This type of airport always accepts international flights. Here are the closest large airport(s) to Mt. Hood Skibowl.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland International Airport | PDX | Portland, OR | 46 mi |
| Seattle–Tacoma International Airport | SEA | Seattle, WA | 146 mi |
A medium-sized airport has scheduled regional airline service. This type of airport may or may not accept international flights. Here are the closest medium-sized airport(s) to Mt. Hood Skibowl.
| Name | Code | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roberts Field | RDM | Redmond, OR | 82 mi |
| Yakima Air Terminal McAllister Field | YKM | Yakima, WA | 100 mi |
| Eugene Airport (Mahlon Sweet Field) | EUG | Eugene, OR | 114 mi |
There may also be much smaller regional airports next to Mt. Hood Skibowl, but we didn't list them here due to the fact that no major airlines go through them.
Other Nearby Ski Resorts
Skiers will - especially if coming from far away - try and visit a couple different slopes all in the same trip. Here are the closest other ski slopes within 100 miles of Mt. Hood Skibowl.
| Name | Location | Summit | Difficulty Score™ | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper Spur | Mount Hood Parkdale, OR | 4,350 ft | 28% | 2 mi |
| Mt. Hood Meadows | Mount Hood, OR | 7,300 ft | 66% | 3 mi |
| Summit Pass | Government Camp, OR | 4,300 ft | 9% | 5 mi |
| Timberline Lodge | Government Camp, OR | 8,540 ft | 77% | 13 mi |
| White Pass | Naches, WA | 6,550 ft | 51% | 89 mi |
| Mt. Bachelor | Bend, OR | 9,065 ft | 82% | 95 mi |
Mt. Hood Skibowl Mountain Stats
| Name | Statistic |
|---|---|
| Summit Elevation | 5,100 ft |
| Base Elevation | 3,600 ft |
| Vertical Drop | 1,500 ft |
| Trails | 69 (20% Beginner, 40% Intermediate, 40% Expert) |
| Lifts | 10 |
| Skiable Acres | 960 |
| Avg. Annual Snowfall | 246 inches |