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Winter Sports

Winter Travel Restrictions/Closure Orders are in place annually.  Please review these Restrictions and Closure Orders, and the associated maps to be fully aware of areas that are closed to Over Snow Travel and restrictions.

Click this link to visit our Alerts page for Winter Travel Restrictions and Closure Orders.

The Payette Avalanche Center Needs Your Help!

We encourage everyone who ventures into the winter backcountry to critically analyze avalanche, snow, and weather conditions and share current information with their local avalanche center. Public observations are an invaluable source of information that help everyone who travels in the backcountry make safe decisions. These observations are crucial to the PAC’s forecasting efforts. They are incredibly helpful in a large forecast area and help save lives.

You don’t have to be an avalanche professional to contribute valuable information. Pictures of recent avalanche activity, red flags such as cracking or collapsing, and even reports of stable conditions help the Payette Avalanche Center publish the most accurate advisory possible. Observations for the McCall region and throughout the Payette can be submitted HERE.

Especially useful information includes:

  • Evidence of recent avalanche activity
  • Signs of instability such as shooting cracks and/or collapsing (whoomphing)
  • Dynamic weather such as high winds with visible snow transport and/or heavy precipitation
  • Skiing, riding, and snowmobiling conditions

Contact the PAC team directly at: forecast@payetteavalanche.org

Find more information on the Payette Avalanche Center HERE.

Search for Winter Sports Opportunities

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Bear Basin Trailhead

Biking Picnicking Winter Sports
This is a year round trailhead serving nordic skiers in the winter with access to over 20K of groomed nordic trails and mountain bikers in the summer with over 15 miles of single track trail from…

Goose Creek Falls Trailhead

Hiking Winter Sports
This trailhead is also known as Gordon Titus parking lot. The Goose Creek Falls trailhead is a large parking area off Brundage/Goose Lake Road, 1 mile south of Brundage Ski Resort. This is a…

Hornet Park Picnic Site

Picnicking Winter Sports
This site is used as a snowmobile parking area in the winter months and a day-use picnic area in the summer months. Several interpretive signs are located next to picnic tables describing paast…

Price Valley Snowmobile Trailhead

Winter Sports
Winter trailhead parking lot for snowmobilers wanting to travel into the backcountry. The snowmobile routes leaving this parking lot are infrequently groomed. Vault restroom available.

West Face Trailhead

Biking Winter Sports Hiking
The West Face Trailhead is used primarily in the snow season as a snowmobile trailhead parking area. There is summertime use as a trailhead for hiking or mountain biking the Bear Basin trails.

Last updated February 26th, 2025