Sun ValleyAmerica's first destination ski resort (1936) at the foot of Bald Mountain in Idaho's Wood River Valley — Hemingway's adopted hometown and the Sawtooth National Recreation Area's southern gateway
The American Shangri-La — a high alpine valley at 5,945 feet at the foot of Bald Mountain, 13 miles north of Hailey on Idaho 75. Sun Valley Resort opened in 1936 as the first destination ski resort in the United States, with the world's first chairlift on Dollar Mountain; the adjacent town of Ketchum is where Ernest Hemingway lived, wrote, and is buried, and the Sawtooth National Recreation Area's 217,000 acres of granite peaks and alpine lakes start 30 minutes north on Galena Pass.
- 45+Vacation rentals
- 2,054Bald Mountain skiable acres
- 5,945 ftKetchum elevation
- December–March, June–SeptemberBest season
Welcome to Sun ValleyAmerica's first destination ski resort, the world's first chairlift on Dollar Mountain, and the Sawtooth National Recreation Area's 217,000 acres of granite peaks 30 minutes up Idaho 75.
Sun Valley opened in December 1936 — Union Pacific chairman Averell Harriman commissioned the resort to fill his railroad's empty winter capacity, hired Austrian Count Felix Schaffgotsch to scout the location, and built the world's first chairlift on Dollar Mountain. Almost a century later the resort still anchors the valley: Bald Mountain (locally just "Baldy") rises 3,400 vertical feet over the town of Ketchum with 2,054 skiable acres, the longest top-to-bottom continuous lift run in North America, and the same lodge bar where Hemingway, Gary Cooper, and the early Hollywood crowd drank in the 1940s.
Our rentals run from slope-side condos in Sun Valley Village (Atelier, Snow Creek, Lodge Apartments) to townhomes off Warm Springs Road on Baldy's flank, log homes in Elkhorn at the south side of the village, and creek-side cabins in Ketchum's Old Town. Friedman Memorial Airport (SUN) in Hailey sits 13 miles south — the only commercial airport inside an Idaho ski valley — with non-stops from Seattle, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Denver, and Los Angeles in winter.
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