![]() ![]() After your two days are up, you’ll get half-priced tickets at all the included resorts. The pass is currently on sale for $489 kids 12 and under are $199. That includes Alta and Snowbird Arapahoe Basin and Aspen Snowmass, Colorado Banff Sunshine and Lake Louise, Alberta Big Sky Jackson Hole Mammoth and Squaw Valley Revelstoke Sugarbush, Vermont and Taos, as well as international locations in France, New Zealand, Australia, and Chile. ![]() You get two days of skiing at each of the participating 18 resorts around North America and beyond. What You Get: Despite competition from bigger passes, the Mountain Collective Pass is holding strong and will return for its eighth season this year. But if you plan to ski more than seven days at your mountain, you’ll still need to purchase a season pass to your local resort-and as of now, that doesn’t include reciprocal deals to the partner resorts.īuy Now: Mountain Collective (sboice/iStock)īest For: Those who don’t need a full-season pass but still want to ski a handful of days at rad places backcountry skiers who sometimes hit the resort. What You Need to Know: If you frequent one of the 26 partner resorts, the Ikon Pass will get you seven days at your home hill. Youngsters get better deals: the Ikon young-adult pass, for those ages 13 to 22, is $779 kids ages 5 to 12 are $399 and the under-four crowd is $49. The adult Ikon Pass is currently on sale for $1,049, or there’s a base pass with blackout dates available for $749. You’ll also receive additional discounts and benefits, like lodging deals, friends-and-family tickets, and early bookings at CMH Heli-Skiing in Canada. That list includes some real standout destinations, like Aspen Jackson Hole, Wyoming Big Sky, Montana Revelstoke, British Columbia Taos, New Mexico and Alta and Snowbird, Utah. It now offers full access to 14 ski resorts owned by Alterra-spots like Mammoth Mountain and Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, California Crystal Mountain, Washington Steamboat, Colorado and Solitude, Utah-and up to seven days at 26 partner properties. What You Get: The Ikon Pass was the headline-making newcomer when it debuted in early 2018 from the Alterra Mountain Company. Or check out the newly introduced Epic Day Pass, which gets you between one and seven days of skiing starting at $109, with discounts of up to 50 percent on lift-ticket prices after that.īuy Now: Ikon Pass (Kristen Rust/Alterra Mountain Co./Ikon Pass)īest For: Van-dwelling bums or those with a ski bucket list Tahoe locals Colorado residents looking for something different those under the age of 22. You can also get local passes for just Lake Tahoe’s resorts, just Colorado’s Summit County, and a variety of others. What You Need to Know: The Epic Local Pass-which currently costs $719-grants you full access to your local hill (if you live near Crested Butte, Breckenridge, or Keystone, Colorado Stevens Pass, Washington Okemo, Vermont Afton Alps, Minnesota or Mount Brighton, Michigan) and limited, holiday-restricted access to the rest on the list. Vail’s been on an acquisition frenzy since then, and the complete Epic Pass now gets you entry to 20 Vail-owned resorts, 17 more mountains recently acquired from Peak Resorts, and a slew of parnters in the United States and abroad. If you don’t plan on traveling the world all winter, you may not need the full-priced pass, and there are less expensive, slightly more restrictive options that are perfectly fine for most skiers. What You Get: The Epic Pass launched in 2008 to grant skiers and riders access to all of Vail Resorts’ properties, which at the time included Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, and Breckenridge in Colorado and Heavenly in California. Epic Pass (Rrrainbow/iStock)īest For: Families with young kids world-traveling skiers East Coasters or Midwesterners who take a yearly ski trip out west. There are others, and many have killer deals. But the Epic and Ikon are not the only collective passes out there. You only need to ski four to six days to make those pass prices worth it. Meanwhile, an Epic Pass, which grants you unrestricted access to Vail and an immense number of other resorts, currently runs for $969 an Ikon Pass, which gets you seven days of skiing at Aspen and unlimited skiing at over a dozen other resorts, is currently $1,049. And why should they?Ī walk-up day ticket to Vail, Colorado, during peak season costs over $200 at Aspen, it’s $179. And with the advent of collective season passes-mega passes like the popular Epic and Ikon-fewer skiers and snowboarders are buying pricey day tickets anymore. Lift tickets are best purchased online and in advance, just like plane tickets. Walking up to the lift-ticket counter at a ski resort and buying a ticket for the day is like strolling into the airport and saying, “I’d like to buy a ticket to Denver, please.” Nobody does that anymore. ![]()
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