Last updated: . This update distinguishes the family’s past ski-day impressions from current Brian Head lesson, lift, and rental information. Date information added October 28, 2026.
First published March 25, 2018. The resort details and lesson experience below are from the family’s earlier ski season; current terrain access, lesson formats, prices, rentals, and included items should be checked with Brian Head Resort.
Our daughter, Goose, has done ski team for the last two years. Each year, they do a final race at Brian Head Resort near Cedar City, UT. We have fallen in love with this resort. On our visit, the runs felt big and wide, and the terrain felt manageable to me; I thought the blues were closer to greens. The chairlift felt fast, and the lines were short that day. We could stay literally across the street. Conditions, lodging availability, and lesson offerings can change by day and season.
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Our four-year-old, Batman, started skiing this year and I was a little nervous that it might be too difficult for him. However, he rocked those runs! We put him and his older brother in a lesson for a day (which felt affordable to us then and included lunch and ski rental for that day). They were really happy with it!
For a current visit, Brian Head’s lesson information lists kids’ lessons for ages 3–12 and group lessons for ages 13 and up, and notes that lift tickets are not included in lesson prices. Rental equipment and snack breaks depend on the selected option. Check the resort’s current lesson details before booking.
A related family skiing video from Switzerland: Grindelwald With Kids: Skiing and Sledding the Swiss Alps.
We left the two youngest kids at home with Grandma, which turned out to be a fun experience too. We all missed them… eventually. The big kids took about 24 hours to miss The Hulk, but they did eventually miss him. We all missed Princess Peach.
Brian Head’s Getting Here page estimates about a three-hour drive from Las Vegas and seven hours from Los Angeles. Route and winter-road conditions can affect travel time, so check a current map and Utah road updates before you go.
It was a fun and different experience to only have the three oldest kids. We let them watch edited versions of Jurassic Park 1 and 3, stayed up late and slept in, sorted out whatever we wanted, and overall had a really great time!
We thought Brian Head Resort was a fun, smaller-feeling resort. At the time, it also seemed like a relatively close option for some visitors from California and Las Vegas.
At the time, we were officially done with ski season (my last ladies lesson was that day!) and were looking forward to potentially skiing in Hokkaido, Japan, next!
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