One marked trail goes up the North Road. This trail is shared with snowmobilers and is suitable when snow is fresh. It is not much fun after being repeatedly mashed down into a series of icy moguls after a few days' intensive use. Snowmobile trails usually follow logging roads and are marked with distinctive reddish-orange diamond markers. Ski trail markers are blue dismonds.
Shared trails have both types.
Another shared trail goes out toward the Needles. This starts at the top of the grade between Quaking Aspen Meadows and the Ponderosa. Yet another starts across the Highway from the Ponderosa, heads west a bit and then circles north to Quaking Aspen Campground. And still another starts from the parking area at the end of the Highway and heads south to Dome Rock and a spectacular view of Kern Canyon. Parts of the latter trail are for exclusive use by skiers.