SoCal's Big Bear Records Second Snowiest Season In History

While Big Bear, CA, wraps up its season (Bear Mountain and Snow Valley close for the season this Sunday), Snow Summit will remain open "until further notice." See below. 

Their snowfall history shows that 2016-17 was another strong season, with 162 inches of snowfall, and 2009-10 saw 158 inches. 

But this year's 173 inches of snow at Bear Mountain tops both of those seasons.

The only season with more snow was the last one, with 243 inches coming down during 2022-23. 

Currently, Snow Summit (the one remaining open after this weekend) has a base depth of 20-36 inches. Today, temps are 55 degrees F, and sunny, but tomorrow things could change drastically.

The weather calls for a windy blizzard, and then Sunday will clear up again for mostly sunny (but possibly still windy) conditions. 

There are multiple parks open right now, with The Hideout at Snow Valley featuring 6 features including jibs, a picnic table, small bonk, and a diamond stall. 

The EDGE has 3 well-maintained jumps, jibs, down rails, a pole jam, and a circular ball-like bonk. The Progression Park on Eagle Flats has rollers, a jump, boxes, and jibs for all ability levels.

At Snow Summit, Westridge features groomed top-to-bottom jumps with a variety of jibs, rails, and boxes including a-frames towards the middle and bottom parts of the run and a hip, pole jam, plus handful of snow features on the upper trail. 

The Cruiser Progression Park is set up with a variety of snow rollers and skill-builder jumps.

At Bear Mountain, Powder Bowl's multiple berms are flowing while the Red Bull container ride through and moto spine hip on Hidden Valley are key staples. 

Central Park's rebuild is stacked with medium to larger features including a mushroom bonk, a handful of creative jumps, a barrel to cop car jib, a corrugated portal ride through and stall, with a few down rails. 

The Progression Parks include rollers, jumps, and boxes for all skill sets.

You don't need a fresh coating of snow to enjoy the park. 

Plus, even though the pond skim happened on April 6th, and two out of three areas close after this weekend, there's still time to get after it. It was a historic season, after all.