Lift Tickets Start at Just $14 at Utah's Highest Ski Area This Season

Ahead of the 2025/26 winter, southern Utah’s Brian Head resort will roll out a whopping $1.4M in upgrades. These upgrades include everything from snowmaking equipment, to trail maintenance, to guest experience enhancements like new lodging.

Perhaps most excitingly, skiers can experience all these new upgrades to Brian Head Resort, which boasts Utah’s highest base area elevation (9,600 ft.), starting at just $14 a day. $14 lift tickets? In this economy? Well, I never!

Brian Head is scheduled to open for the season on November 7, 2025, with daily operations from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. until May 10, 2026, conditions permitting. Tickets start at $14 on select days (which is a 26% decrease from last year’s lowest prices!) and kids under 12 ski for free, all season long.

Brian Head uses a dynamic pricing model on its lift tickets. As demand rises, so do prices, and vice-versa, hence the $14 lift tickets. Keep reading for more on Brian Head ahead of the Winter 25/26 season.

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Following their record-breaking 181-day season over the 2024/25 winter, Brian Head has expanded their previously upgraded snowmaking systems to Navajo Mountain.

This expansion should allow more beginner and intermediate terrain to open earlier in the season, and to stay open later through into the year. The resort has also added a new Kids’ Adventure Zone to Navajo Mountain with freshly gladed beginner and intermediate trails that allow new skiers to dabble in tree skiing.

These new trails sit between the Navajo and Maryland Parkway and are part of the mountain’s ongoing efforts to be more family-friendly.

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Additionally, Brian Head Resort has added more than 400 new pairs of skis and 250 snowboards to its rental fleet for the 2025/26 season.

The mountain’s ski patrol unit has also received four new snowmobiles and updated communications equipment to support and increase on-mountain safety.

Brian Head’s Lodge is also getting an upgrade with brand-new decor and an upgraded fitness center and fitness equipment.

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