Magic Mountain Resort is a modest alpine

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

 ski area in south central Idaho

Idaho

Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

, in a southern unit of the Sawtooth National Forest

Sawtooth National Forest

Sawtooth National Forest is in Idaho and Utah was protected in 1905 by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt as the Sawtooth Forest Reserve. Today the forest administers over 2.1 million acres of some of the most remote forestland in the lower 48 states, and there are over 1,000 lakes and 3,000...

. It is east of Rogerson

Rogerson, Idaho

Rogerson is an unincorporated community in Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States. It is located approximately 18 miles north of the Nevada border on U.S. Route 93. It is near Salmon Falls Dam....

 on the eastern edge of Twin Falls County

Twin Falls County, Idaho

Twin Falls County is a county in the south central part of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2000 Census, the county had a population of 64,284 . The county seat and largest city is Twin Falls....

, 18 miles (29 km) northwest of the Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

-Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 border with Idaho

Idaho

Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

.

The ski area has a summit elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 of 7240 feet (2206 m) above sea level with a vertical drop of 700 feet (213 m). It has a double chairlift

Chairlift

An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel cable loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs...

, a poma lift

Platter lift

A platter lift , platter pull or button lift is a surface lift, a mechanized system for pulling skiers and snowboarders uphill, along the surface of the slope. In Europe they are also known as Poma lifts...

, and a rope tow

Ski tow

thumb|right|A rope tow or ski tow.A ski tow, also called rope tow or handle tow, is a mechanised system for pulling skiers and snowboarders uphill....

. The 120 acres (49 hectares) of skiable terrain is rated at 30% easiest, 25% more difficult, 20% most difficult, and 25% experts only.
Magic Mountain also has a snow tubing hill.

The average annual snowfall is 230 inches (584 cm). Outside of holidays, the ski area is open four days a week, Thursday through Sunday, and does not have night skiing.

External links

• Magic Mountain - official site
• Ski Idaho.us - official state tourism site
• Idaho Ski Resorts.com - Magic Mountain
• On the Snow.com - Magic Mountain
• Topographic map and aerial photo from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps