Palisades Tahoe is also open daily for skiing through Memorial Day. Mammoth may stay open a week or two into June. They make much more effort than Palisades to provide good skiing although being a couple of thousand feet higher and having race teams training on their mountain also helps.
On the other hand, Vail makes decisions from Colorado on when to close their CA ski areas based on how much money they could make, not on keeping their customers happy. Photo is from CA-88 going past Kirkwood last Friday, May 9. There was still snow in the meadow at entrance and with a little effort they could have run two lifts Fri-Sun for a few more weeks.
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