Lodging near Donner Summit for skiing Sugar Bowl and Boreal

About Donner Summit

Donner Summit is the high stretch of I-80 west of Truckee where Sugar Bowl and Boreal sit, around 6,900 ft. There's no real town up here, just the tiny hamlets of Norden and Soda Springs, so the reason to stay is being minutes from the lifts. Sugar Bowl's Village Lodge is the slopeside hotel up here, and you reach it by gondola from a parking garage.

Sugar Bowl is about 5 minutes from Norden and Boreal (the area's only night skiing) is about 10 to 15 minutes along old Highway 40 and I-80. Palisades is about 35 minutes away. Lodging is thin: Sugar Bowl's 27-room Village Lodge and the homes in its snowbound village, a handful of club-run and hostel-style lodges (some with bunk rooms), and vacation rentals. For a full choice of restaurants, Truckee is about 20 minutes east. This base is for people who'd rather be first in line at Sugar Bowl than out for dinner. In a storm, the summit corridor is the part of any Tahoe plan most likely to change, so check the road before you count on getting down the hill.

Skiing nearby

Sugar Bowl is about 5 min away (or a gondola ride from the Village Lodge). Boreal is 10–15 min, and Palisades is about 35 min.

• Sugar Bowl
• Boreal Mountain Resort
• Palisades Tahoe