Three Colorado resorts break 300 dollars for lift tickets

[Ripitz]

What are the highest day rates at resorts in NY or New England that are not Ikon or Indy? Meaning during the end of year holiday weeks.

Here are the rates for the Catskill Four right now;

Plattekill $98
Belleayre $114
Hunter $149
Windham $180

 

[Andy_ROC]

Holiday Valley which really has a high end resort feel is ~$100 for a weekend pass. Bristol also about $95.

 

[Andy_ROC]

Park City wasn't selling day passes today.

 

[MarzNC]

Maybe I’m just a contrarian but nothing makes me want to buy a pass product less than a giant ski conglomerate jacking up its window price in order to coerce me into buying.

Seems sensible to me.

I had an Epic Local pass last season for a trip to Crested Butte in March. Used it to sample VR resorts in Colorado. I'm not that interested in going back to Vail, Beaver Creek, or Breckenridge. Liked Keystone for assorted reasons but it's not close to being in my personal Top Ten. However, I have a better understanding of why those resorts continue to draw people who are mostly unaware that online ski forums exist. For travelers who average less than 15 days a season on snow but take an annual ski vacation to a destination resort in the Rockies, having a ski town or large purpose-built "village" is of interest. There were a fair number of international guests in the shops at Vail in the evenings the week before Christmas 2023. They were clearly staying in slopeside lodging.

As I remember, the number of Epic passes bought for 2024-25 didn't continue to increase as had been happening since 2021. My sense is that folks in the mid-Atlantic are searching for alternatives to the Northeast Epic even though that's a pretty good deal.

 

[MarzNC]

Took a quick look at a single day ticket for January 2025 at a few less well known places out west. Not surprisingly, Saturdays are always $10-25 higher than Sundays. Fridays are usually more than Mon-Thu. Didn't find any Saturday prices over $150 for an Adult, most were $100-110. The age at which a teen has to pay the Adult price varies quite a bit. With demand pricing, can't just look at a table of lift ticket prices for many places these days. In most cases, there is a lower price 48-72 hours in advance.

I checked Brundage, Tamarack, Bogus Basin in Idaho; Bridger Bowl in Montana; Monarch, Wolf Creek in Colorado. I'll be using the Indy Pass at Brundage and Tamarack next March, with a day at Bogus after we drive back to Boise. Bogus and Bridger are probably the two most successful long-time non-profits in the USA. Monarch and Wolf Creek continue to add terrain slowly but surely. Of these places, only Tamarack has a resort "village" with modern slopeside lodging. That trip includes a couple of friends who are intermediates who need to be able to start late and/or finish early.

Fair to say that most of the people who are regulars at the places ai checked are locals.

I talked to plenty of out-of-state folks at Wolf Creek a few weeks ago. Mostly from OK and NM. There were plenty of TX license plates in the upper parking lot. The closest lots filled up by 8:45 on the weekends. There were first-timers taking lessons mixed in with the knowledgeable advanced folks who headed over to the Alberta side (essentially all black ungroomed terrain) first thing in the morning on the day after a small snowstorm.