Mt Baldy Resort - Mt Baldy, California

Lisset Arredondo

All time fav mountain summer & winter! Backyard gem ? Best skiing terrain in CA and magical all year. I just hiked Devils Backbone (see pics) on the Moonless Night. Hiked all day and finished the evening at the Notch with good food and live music! Go get outside folks! Baldy is the best!

Scott Lee

Great ski/snowboarding place. Great view with the lift even no ski/snowboarding. I suppose it would be great to take the lift up and down, again and again. During my visit, it is hot and not enough snow so that there is only the artificial snow not natural ones. Only one lane is open and the more difficult remains closed, waiting for more snow to gather. The top of nortch restaurant is somehow expensive but the food is worth at such a high mountain.

David Kim

Just 1 hr drive from Orange county. Bought their $100/person 90 min snowboard lesson package that includes the boars & boot rental & all-day lift. Parking was easy ($10 prepaid). Staff were friendly. Lesson was great & worth the money.

Kay Hooshmand

So I took my five year old today for a day of tubing and we had the most fun time ever. All of the employees are wonderful people who deserve medals of honor for how kind, polite, courteous and helpful they were.

I bought tix in advance which was good because they sold out before we even got there at 11:30 am. The ticket for sledding is for a two hour block but you can stay up as long as you want on the mountain (I think) which is good because the check in line with reservations ran 45 mins ?

We rode the chair lift up and the guy at the bottom was hilarious - singing and dancing to music. My daughter was so thrilled and he was super kind in helping her onto the lift. We dropped the bar and rode up, at one point we started swaying but I managed to stay calm as my daughter was counting out the ten-foot bounce we were doing “up, down, up, down” ? Anyway we made it to the top.

The tubing staff were AMAZING. I work in infection control yet I didn’t see that my daughters mask came off, the employee nicely requested I put it back on her without being a jerk which I appreciated because even tho we were masked, outside and distanced you still see transmission in these areas.

The staff at the top of the hill were so kind, took a great photo of us, held my backpack as we rode down the hill, sent us down perfectly straight or spun us on request (and my daughter was changing her mind non-stop). They were also monitoring the bottom of the hill at the end of the day as the runs turn to ice and you start going higher and higher each time. They are concerned about safety which I appreciated because you do go kinda fast. The run is quick and the hike back up easy but I still felt like I was getting a good workout. The weather was beautiful and we were comfortable in sweatshirts and bib overall ski pants which was nice.

The restaurant at the top had a good variety of food, we paid $15.75 for a veggie burger and fries and it was actually really good. Way better than most other ski resorts I’ve been too. You can pre-pay for lunch but the wait in line and the wait for food was minimal today.

We ended up staying later and there were no lines so we went sledding for a bit longer than our block which I appreciated. Obviously if there were people there we wouldn’t have done that but it was getting late and the temp had dropped a good 20 degrees so the place was clearing out.

We rode the lift down which was better, no bouncing, the guy at the bottom was hilarious again and ran to get my daughter a giant pine cone, so super nice, great vibe!

We paid $58/ticket and it was completely worth it for the fun and memories. Next time I would leave LA earlier and get up the mountain around 9-10 am before the line for the ski lift backs up again. I would also bring a helmet for my daughter as the runs became icy by the end of the day and I saw someone go off the path. But the rest of the day was perfect. Bring a balaclava for after 3 pm when the wind picks up and make sure your jacket is wind-proof, it’s super windy at the top.

Request for the facility - please move the picnic tables out of the wind, we ended up eating on the rocks behind the restaurant which wasn’t as comfortable. Otherwise super fun perfection!

Thanks for a great sledding day!

been’there

It’s a great part of Mt. Baldy. You can get up by the lift or hike up there. I prefer the hike, and there is one along the lift. The views are majestic. Up top it’s another world. You can hike to various peaks and it’s truly beautiful. It’s certainly windy but feels like the alps. You can barely see the bottom. In the winter you can sky, in the summer hike. It’s fun to hike down too. Dangerous but not bad just make sure you have good shoes.

susanalasus

Affordable, not crowded, great snow right now! the people that work at the rental equipment place are very nice and helpful, good little restaurant at the top and of course our beautiful San Gabriel Mountains!
$139.00 includes all day lift+ equipment
$10.00 dollar parking ( on line only)

D MOORE

Ride Mt Baldy Ski lifts all Spring-Summer. Plenty of easy exploring on the resort roads. Restaurant and restrooms available. They also have live music events after sunset on warm Summer nights. It's a lot of fun. Staff were very nice people.

I G

Full on ski resort in less than one hour from LA. Even though the parking lot seems full, when you go up, it seems like there’s no one on the slopes. I noticed they have snowmaking capabilities. Old school charm.