Mount Lemmon snow gears up ski season
The recent snow on Mt. Lemmon is not enough to open up the ski lift at Ski Valley yet. A few more snowfalls is needed. In the meantime, the main road up the mountain is open, unless there is heavy snow. Weather notices are posted near the entrance, or check the Mt. Lemmon Weather Report.
Seasonal road closures on Mt. Lemmon
Several seasonal roads along the Catalina Highway to Mt. Lemmon are being closed from December 15, 2009 through March 1, 2010. The roads will not be available for cars or other motorized vehicles.
The main road to the top of Mount Lemmon and Summerhaven village will be open, unless snow conditions warrant a short closure.
Those roads and day-use sites in the upper elevations of Mt. Lemmon are usually closed during the winter months. The roads are still open for hikers, skiers, bicyclists and non-motorized uses. Read more about Mt. Lemmon road closures and see the list of roads.
Visit Mt. Lemmon and Summerhaven. Watch videos, read about the mountain and community. Get weather and road condition links.
Top Photo: Overlooking Summerhaven during construction after the fire.
Bottom Photo: Looking over Summerhaven during the first snow of the season on Thanksgiving Day 2008. The unexpected downfall stranded a number of tourists. © 2009 BZB.
Making Lemmon out of Lemonade
A visit to Summerhaven is like short trip from the desert floor to a lush, regrowing, forest. The foothills of the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, AZ. begins the hour long journey to the top of the hill known as Mount Lemmon, Arizona and the village of Summerhaven, Arizona.
As the weather cools in the Tucson valley, it also cools at the top of the Santa Catalina mountains by 25-30 degree F.
If you plan to travel in the morning, it will be chillier when you get to the top at Summerhaven or the Ski Lift. Bring an extra sweater or jacket in case the temperatures drop.
Mt. Lemmon is also written as Mt. Lemon, Mount Lemmon, Mt Lemon, Muont and Mount Lemon. That has lead to some confusion to the correct spelling for Mt. lemmon. Frog Mountain is another name for the Summerhaven valley. Explore Mt. Lemmon today.
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Mt. Lemmon, AZ Index
Watch video clips and see new video photos of Mount Lemmon and Summerhaven!
What to do when you get to the top of the mountain. Stores, restaurants and sites to see.
The winter 2008-2009 snowfall season at Ski Valley. Hours, information and resources. RSS weather reports.
Continuously updated RSS weather reports on Mt. Lemmon and driving conditions from weather.com. Links to Mt. Lemmon weather web sites and phone numbers.
Video Clips
Fire on the Mountain. Watch a video clip from TEP looking at the Catalina Mountains during the 2003 fire. Other videos of Mount Lemmon and Summerhaven.
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality Scenes Spin the images and zoom in for more detail on VR scenes of Mt. Lemmon and Summerhaven.
Mt. Lemmon Photos
Up Mt. Lemmon Drive Up Mt. Lemmon- over a dozen photos, video clip movie, views of new growth, Summerhaven progress
Summerhaven renewal. See how Summerhaven looks.
Drive up Mt. Lemmon : Photo tour up the mountain to the Mt. Lemmon Ski Valley. See Nixon Head Rock.
Take an early winter drive up the mountain. Large photos and video clips of scenery, rock formations, and the latest construction pictures of Summerhaven.
Mt. Lemmon Shopping, Dining, Entertainment & Culture:
Mt. Lemmon Internet links. Hiking spots, camping, Forest Service information, road conditions, etc.
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Books on
Mt. Lemmon from Amazon:
by Mary Ellen Barnes (Author)
As you wind your way up the Catalina Highway, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a first-time visitor or a native Tucsonan; you know you’re on the way to someplace special.
The Santa Catalina Mountains first captivated Tony Zimmerman on a 1937 hunting trip. Regard for the alpine beauty must have been in his genes—he was the son of Swiss German immigrants—and by 1940 the Tucson schoolteacher had begun taking his family to Mount Lemmon to spend the summer. Back then, the road up the mountain was a rough two-track dirt road from Oracle, and Summerhaven was nothing but a sleepy cluster of summer cabins. But Tony Zimmerman was to help change all of that.
The Road to Mount Lemmon is a beguiling memoir of the Catalina Mountains told by the daughter of one of the pioneers in the life and development of Mount Lemmon’s communities. Mary Ellen Barnes tells how her father Tony resigned from teaching in 1943 to devote his career to the development of this mountain oasis. He not only sold real estate for long time landowner Randolph Jenks, he even bought the village’s tiny two-room store, installing a sawmill to build a larger store, and built the Mount Lemmon Inn. And as she spins Tony’s personal saga, she also gives readers a glimpse of the Catalinas before Tucson became a boom town, recalling idyllic adventures in wild country and the cowboys, rangers, ranchers, and loggers who worked there.
Product Details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: University of Arizona Press (June 11, 2009)
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Squeezing the Lemmon II
...more juice
than ever
A rock climber's guide to the Mt. Lemmon Highway, Tucson, Arizona, by Eric Fazio-Richard. 324 pages. Publisher: E Squared Enterprises; 1st ed edition (2000)
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Frog Mountain Blues
(Paperback)
by Charles Bowden,
Jack W. Dykinga (Photographer)
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Man Climbing Rock at Sunset, Mt. Lemmon, AZ
College Photographic Poster Print by Greg Epperson, 16x12
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Southern Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains (Map)
by Frank Lister
Publisher: Guia Roji SA de CV; 1 edition (April 1, 1999)
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(Paperback)