Riders on a Mt Baldy chairlift passing rime-frosted pines under a deep blue sky

Mt Baldy Ski Lifts · Angeles National Forest

Four chairs. 2,100 feet of real mountain.

Sugar Pine, The Gulch, Thunder Mountain and West Side. Classic double chairs that climb from 6,500 to 8,600 feet, about an hour from LA.

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Spinning since 1952

Lift BoardFrom the Mt Baldy mountain report

1

Sugar PineBase area 6,500' to Top of the Notch 7,800'

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2

The GulchBeginner loop and the way to Chair 3

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3

Thunder MountainUp to the 8,600' summit and Catalina Vista Park

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4

West SideThe sunny side. Spins after a big storm

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At the Notch · 7,800'

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The mountain in numbers

Built steep.

Baldy is a skier's mountain. The lifts are old-school doubles, the terrain is mostly fall line, and the views run all the way to Catalina.

8,600^ftSummit

6,500^ftBase

2,100^ftVertical

4Double chairs

30Named runs

4Extreme zones

Meet the chairs

One lift for
every kind of day

Every chair has its own personality. Start on Sugar Pine, warm up in The Gulch, then go up Thunder Mountain or wait for the storm that opens West Side.

Trail map

Find your line

Tap a chair to zoom in and see every run it serves. The full printable map lives on the Resort site.

Mt Baldy winter trail map showing Chairs 1 to 4, runs and extreme danger zones

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Run finder

Thirty runs.
Six ways to rate them.

Baldy rates its terrain on a six-step scale instead of the usual three, so you know exactly what you're getting into. Filter by level or by chair.

EDZ

Extreme Danger Zones. Holumac, The Face, Clementine and Bill's are ungroomed, unmarked expert terrain with cliffs, trees and rocks. Ski them with a partner and only if you know exactly what you're doing.

Lift history

Old-school steel.
Kept running by hand.

Baldy's four chairs are Mueller double chairlifts, the kind most mountains replaced decades ago. Our own lift crew keeps every tower, sheave and bullwheel turning, from first chair to the last sunset ride.

1952Mt Baldy opens to skiers. The lift story starts here.

1970Chair 4 opens on the west side. 3,440 feet of cable and 10 towers.

1979Chair 1 gets a new drive and haul rope. Today 160 chairs ride its line.

TodayFour chairs, one crew, and the same 2,100 feet of vertical.

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