As the country’s southernmost major ski area, Ski Apache offers the best warm-weather powder skiing in the world with snowmaking on 33% of the mountain. The slopes offer a mix of wide beginner slopes, tough bump runs, a huge bowl, nice cruising runs and a terrain park with jumps, tubes, and rails. Here are just a few of the highlights:

• The alpine peak of Sierra Blanca is over 12,000 feet
• Annual snowfall over 15 feet!
• 11 lifts including New Mexico’s only eight-passenger Gondola to the top – the Gazebo
• Enhanced snow-making all the way to the top
• Vertical drop of 1,900 feet
• Amount of mountain open depends on snowfall call 575-464-1234 for the daily snow report