Mammoth is California's favorite mountain resort, located in Central California on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Mammoth is 525km from Los Angeles and 580km from San Francisco.

The first chairlift at Mammoth opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1955 with lifts lines two to three hours long. Now Mammoth's chairlift system, made up of 28 lifts (nine are high-speed quads) can take 50,000 people per hour up the mountain. The Village Gondola, the newest lift, can take 3,000 people per hour. There are 150 named trails on Mammoth Mountain, the longest, Road Runner, is 3 miles (nearly 5km).

South Lake Tahoe is 319km from San Francisco and 762km from Los Angeles. Seven highways connect the lake with major cities in California and Nevada. From the San Francisco area, the most direct route to South Lake Tahoe is up all-weather Highway 50.

Lake Tahoe features North America's largest concentration of Ski and Snowboard Resorts, with perfect powder, groomed and machine-made snow from November through April. Tahoe's lake level receives an average of 3 metres of snow annually, while the higher elevations receive as much as 12 metres per year! Add the adventures of snowmobiling, snow play parks, cross country skiing and snowshoeing, and you'll discover why Americans love Lake Tahoe.

A ski holiday at Lake Tahoe puts you inside that picture-perfect image of a winter wonderland. Boasting the largest concentration of ski areas in North America, Lake Tahoe offers skiers and snowboarders plenty of room to roam!! Take your pick of 15 alpine and 13 cross-country ski areas. South Lake Tahoe's three close alpine ski resorts, including Sierra-at-Tahoe, Kirkwood, and the world famous Heavenly Ski Resort, offer some of the steepest, deepest and most scenic runs in the West. The North Shore offers the world-famous Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows among others. All the major ski areas offer child care facilities, children's ski programs and complimentary shuttle bus service,

Your Mammoth Mountain holiday package includes: