Bear Valley Adventure Company (BVAC) - Bear Valley, California

Chaitanya Varma Mudunuri

Great place to do snow activities . Day trip from Bay Area. They provide all the gear for rent and we can also buy them if required. Snow mobiles is must do activity. Safe and nicely paved trails. No prior experience required. They provide trailer for children for village loop trail. Great helpful staff.

Oksana Kryukov

A stunningly beautiful place in both winter and summer! In this resort you will find everything! Sports, recreation and entertainment! If you arrived and forgot your jacket or gloves at home, you can purchase them here. There is a store here with a large selection of everything. Friendly staff will help you choose equipment for any winter sport to rent or buy. And in the forest itself there is a fairy-tale house in which there is a small restaurant. For many years now we have been renting a house in Arnold to ski at this resort! Thank you guys!

Elena Kostrygina

The trails are beautiful and the renting was fast, easy and efficient. The food was excellent at the Meadow Cafe!! Our paninis were probably the best we have ever had!

Yasmeen Nasir

Beautiful place to visit with family for one day picnic spot during the snow times.
Though during the covid times, well maintained crowd. We planed so late and reached almost by 12:30 pm. By the crowd at the gate , we thought we r going to miss the spot. But there were allowing the family to occupy the tubes and enjoy the timing for 2hrs . That sounded good. Hence every1 like us ( last-minute entries)
Could also enjoy the area.
There are picnic benches, hence You can grab ur snack/ lunch to enjoy at the site.

As it was sunny and warm in the 1st week of April. Warm-gears like warmer/ jackets/ boots are not required. Please don’t waste money buying/renting the gears . Everything will be available at the spot , if it tend to be ,chill a bit.
Or else can rent warmer/jackets from ‘sports basement’ or any renting shop on the way to bear valley. So that we can return it back on the way home. Hence it would charge only for a day rent. Pick-up gloves and long boats only to prevent damage to hand/leg during the fall at the snow ground.
But please, do check for the weather forecast before heading to the destination.

Personal sledge/tubes not allowed.
Free parking, tubing $25 for 2 hrs.

Jeff Knowles

We had a great time tubing with our 4 year old at Bear Valley. It cost us $35 to rent a tube for 2 hours with one person admission and then $10 each per person. There are picnic tables and benches near the tubing hill. The sledding hill was closed due to flooding. Parking was limited at the store (directly across the highway from the trailhead), so I recommend familiarizing yourself with the other parking lots ahead of time. There is not great signage once you are there.

Christine Ibanez

BEST. DAYS. EVER!
From our ski lessons to the amazing burger and chili at lunch, then being able to particpate in a ski race the next day, this hands down was one of our best trips ever.
We love the outdoors and trails, so naturally we took to Nordic skiing like a squirrel to a nut. Can't wait to be back and explore more terrain!

Joe c

Cool place to go tubing and sledding. As well as apparently they have cross country skiing. Im a snowboarder personally. But i have to say that the staff were fairly efficient in getting the people in and out. The only thing that was a bit of a bummer was no rope tow for the sledding. You had to climb up the hill each time. Ugh. But all and all still lots of fun.

B C

Enjoyed the view today. We made a stop while riding to alpine lake to cool off in the heat.great view awesome ride up 4.