The Heavenly piste map shows 4800 acres making Heavenly California's largest ski resort. Lots of the ski area is below the tree line heading towards the lake and its no surprise that tree skiing is a firm favourite with spectacular views.

Some of the best areas for tree skiing with deep powder can be found at the Powderbowl Woods and Maggie's Canyon. And then there’s Avalanche Bowl, Dipper Woods and Mott and Killebrew Canyons for the steep decents towards the lake.

The Heavenly piste map tries to show the tree density of the gladed area which is good but to get a really good feel for where to explore, the forest rangers offer free and guided tours of the forests a couple of days a week.

If you like skiing at Heavenly, you can also do some day trips to some of the other ski resorts around Lake Tahoe including.....

• Alpine Meadows Ski Resort
• Kirkwood Mountain Resort
• Mt Rose-Ski Tahoe
• Northstar California
• Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort, and
• Squaw Valley