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Timberline Lodge Ski Area

Timberline Ski Area

What it offers:  The Still Creek Basin’s 8 new alpine trails of will provide connectivity to existing terrain, making Timberline’s trail system on the lower mountain longer, more fun, and more sheltered from the weather.  The cumulative linear feet of new trails equals 5.8 miles, and the new Kruser trail becomes Timberline’s longest trail at roughly 1.5 miles.  Other new trails include Mustang Sally, Alpine, JoJaMi, Brother Beau, Waterline, Buzz Cut, and Uncle Jon's Band.  Natural terrain features abound in Still Creek Basin – chutes, glades, and lots of tree skiing!

Nordic skiing or snowshoeing:  Still Creek Basin offers a new opportunity at Timberline for cross country skiing and snowshoeing.  The Snowshoe Trail, a brand new trail from Timberline Lodge, traverses through the woods, to the bottom of the new chairlift, providing a new Nordic experience and giving users the option of continuing downhill to the town of Government Camp via a connection with the West Leg Road, or an uphill return to the Lodge on the new Jeff Flood Express.  Single ride lift tickets are now offered to cross country skiers and snowshoers.  Bring your own equipment, or rent gear at the Wy'East Day Lodge.

Room to move: Timberline just got a whole lot bigger.  Opening the Still Creek Basin terrain adds roughly 220 acres of terrain to our lower mountain.  That's 58% more lower mountain terrain than we had last year!  This provides our guests with lots of freedom to move about the ski area, and with the new Jeff Flood Express chairlift, capacity and ample uphill transportation is not a problem at Timberline.  In fact, it is a luxury.  A new chairlift, new trails and wide-open spaces, means a lot less crowding on the slopes, and more time skiing and riding. Timberline is your alternative to crowded slopes!

Longest lift on Mt. Hood: The new Jeff Flood Express chairlift is named for a special, long-time Timberline employee.  As Timberline's head snow groomer for many years, "Floodo" took great pride in laying down the corduroy and making sure the slopes were in top form every day.  He also was known as a pioneer of shaped freestyle terrain.  The international snowboard industry, as well as some of the world’s top athletes appreciated his innovation and hard work when Jeff was named to the slope grooming team for both the Winter Olympics and the Winter X Games.  At 6,270 feet long (roughly 1.2 miles), this new Doppelmayr CTEC quad chairlift is now the longest chairlift on Mt. Hood, and yet, this state-of-the-art high speed lift will whisk you from bottom to top in just a little more than 6 minutes!

A wind powered chairlift:  Maybe Bob Dylan was right.  Maybe the answer is indeed "blowing in the wind"!  Environmental protection and stewardship of the environment is one of Timberline’s core values.  We also think energy conservation is patriotic.  Demonstrating our concern for global warming and for America's independence from foreign oil, we have partnered with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to purchase enough renewable energy credits for power from renewable sources (mostly wind) to power the new Jeff Flood Express.

The most vertical feet of skiing in the U.S. Pacific Northwest:  Second only to Canada's Whistler Blackcomb, Timberline features some serious vertical feet of skiing.  From the top of Palmer to the bottom of the new Jeff Flood Express is an amazing 3,620 vertical feet of pure fun!

Explore Timberline's New Still Creek Basin this winter!  For more information, visit our website at www.timberlinelodge.com.