In winter months, Bald Mountain provides 1200 acres of downhill skiing with 12 lifts including three high-speed quad chairs. Dollar Mountain is more of a family skiing operation with four lifts. Tickets for the two mountains are interchangeable. Ketchum and Sun Valley also have two cross-country ski centers and there are two more in the Sawtooth National Recreation Center which is just north of the resort area. In all, there are 175 miles of groomed trails including skating lanes.
Snowmobile tours are popular as well.
In summer, there are 80 miles of hiking trails in the Recreation Area. On winter evenings, horse drawn sleighs take visitors into the woods for gourmet dinners. The other large vacation operation, with 132 rooms and five restaurants, is Elkhorn Resort , located just south of Ketchum off Highway 75. This is a new hotel resort with an 18 hole championship golf course, cross-country trails and the same skiing arrangements as Sun Valley with ski lifts on Dollar Mountain rising from the Elkhorn base. There are cozy European style lodgings, bed and breakfast inns, modern accommodations in old, historic buildings, and several larger and modern hotels and motels.