Plan to purchase lift tickets online before arrival. Your lift ticket purchase can be loaded onto a reusable, reloadable Sipapu card. The reloadable cards are available at the ticket kiosk at resort by scanning the QR code on your confirmation email. Once activated your reloadable card will hold your online ticket and rental purchases. Learn more about how to use the Sipapu Card.

Lessons are a great introduction to skiing or snowboarding the mountain. The Sipapu ski school offers group and private lessons for all skill levels.

Our ski rental shop makes it easy to rent the ski, board, and bike equipment you need and hit the slopes fast. All resort equipment rentals are booked exclusively online before you come. Rental purchases will be loaded onto your Sipapu card.

Guide to Sipapu Rentals – How to Streamline the Process:

• Measure your kids’ feet and enter their exact shoe size into the website (and your own).
• Ski boots are meant to fit TIGHT. You don’t want any play in the toes of the boots or risk losing a toenail. Learn more.
• Rent once, keep your whole trip. If you’re coming for multiple days, grab your gear the night before you plan to ski and keep it your entire rental period. No need to turn in at the end of the day until the end of your trip.
• Allow up to an hour or more to get fitted for your gear. We strive for excellent customer service and seek to get the fit on your gear right the first time, which takes time. Ill-fitting ski boots are the worst for everyone. So when the line is long, it’s because our technicians are working hard to get the right fit the first time. 

Sipapu offers a wide variety of slope-side accommodations, from simple hotel rooms to a lodge that sleeps up to 14. Book online. 

Sipapu offers full-service dining through the Riverside Cafe and Paradise Grill. Order food online while you’re on the mountain through our online ordering system. Click here to order. Grab & go snacks and convenience meals are available in our onsite General Store, or visit Taos’ grocery stores for more hearty fare.

Want to cook for yourself? Each hotel room has a microwave, mini-fridge, and coffee maker. Rental houses, duplexes, casitas, cabins, and suites have full-service kitchens.

Parking is conveniently located slopeside.

Sipapu offers trails for every ability, and we have an especially good beginner area. Download and view our Trail Map.

Our beginner ski area is robust and starts with the Magic Carpet to your left as you cross the bridge to the ski area from the lodge. That’s where lessons meet and if it’s your very first time on skis, it’s where you should start to get your ski legs.

Sipapu offers plenty of fun for intermediate skiers. The blues off of Lift 1 are all fantastic. Start on Butterfly to Thumper for a nice warm-up run.

Oops, Flower and Reasonable Anxiety are all great for advanced skiers. When lifts 3 and 4 are open, you can often find some powder stashes off Jimmy Pop, Wormwood, and Gamble Glades. Enjoy!