If you haven’t been to South Lake Tahoe recently, you’re in for a surprise. Gone are the old motels and t-shirt shops, replaced by a vibrant village, up-scale lodging and exquisite restaurants. Heavenly has turned this quirky ski town into a double-black-diamond destination. Rising 3,000 feet above famous Lake Tahoe, few mountain resorts can compete with Heavenly’s scenic beauty and exhilarating on-mountain experience.

Besides the unparalleled natural features, over $250 million were poured into mountain and village improvements – a gondola, new resort hotels, new lifts, better snowmaking, improved grooming, extensive lodge renovations, a world-class ski school facility, and a family adventure center that lets non-skiers join the fun! And they’re not done yet. Heavenly will debut the Olympic Express high-speed quad chairlift this winter, four new trails and the Heavenly Flyer, the lower 48 states longest zip line.

South Shore isn’t some sleepy ski town. There’s an “Open 24 Hours” sign drawing visitors to winter’s hottest nightlife like moths to a flame. From ‘round-the-clock poker tournaments to all-night dance clubs and the only stateside Cabo Wabo, the choices are endless. The only limit to the fun is your energy level.

If that doesn’t get the blood pumping, check out these mountain stats: Three hundred days of sunshine; 40 feet of snowfall; 4,800 acres of terrain (California’s most); wide-open cruisers on meticulously-groomed corduroy; 1,000-foot chutes that make instinct cry out in fear; unreal powder stashes amongst the forests; and four terrain parks that range from beginner to advanced levels so every jibbers can “go big.” Heavenly ranks among Ski Magazine’s Top 20 Ski Resorts in North America, and was voted by locals to be Lake Tahoe’s “Best Place to Downhill Ski.”

Combine world-class skiing with California sunshine and Nevada nightlife, and you get an experience so epic it could only be called one thing – Heavenly.