Alta Slashes Lift Tickets by 50% for Passholders at Other Mountains, Including Epic Pass
Alta Ski Area, Utah, is making the most of a winter that didn’t pan out exactly as hoped. And the ski area’s doing it with a sense of humor.
In celebration of what Alta’s calling the “Best Worst Season,” it’s offering 50% off lift tickets to passholders from other mountains. The discount halves Alta’s usual ticket window price of $189, taking them down to about $95.
That’s a lifeline for all the skiers across Utah marooned by the abrupt end of this ski season: only five resorts are still standing, and if your home is closed but you want to keep skiing, you’re in a tough spot. Cheaper lift tickets might be enough to motivate getting out for another day or two, though. It doesn’t hurt that Alta’s snow base depth is sitting at an impressive 81 inches.
The deal applies only to tickets bought at the window and requires you to show an ID, too. It also doesn’t apply on Alta’s closing day, April 26.
Alta confirmed in the comments that Epic Pass holders can cash in on the deal, too.
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There’s more to the “Best Worst Season” story. It’s cheeky, of course, but Alta’s using the phrase to make an argument: even when the snow fails to show up in historic fashion, the ski area still skis pretty well.
According to a blog post, Alta Ski Area had seen its second-least-snowiest season as of April 1, 2026—that’s per data gathered over 46 years by the Collins Study Plot.
Interestingly, while snow was down, water wasn’t, hitting 80% of average.
“The additional density has helped our settled snow depth hold up during longer stretches of high pressure and the low sun angles of winter have kept the snow cold, dry and chalky across all of Alta’s high-elevation terrain,” Alta Ski Area wrote.
Alta Ski Area/Rocko Menzyk
There were some powder days, too, particularly in February, when the snow totals neared but didn’t quite hit average.
Warm weather, though, followed.
But, Alta Ski Area wrote, “Thanks in large part to [our] elevation and north-facing terrain, we managed to stay open and stay skiing while we waited for the spring fever to break.”
And with just a few days left of Alta’s season, all five of its main lifts remain open.
That’s not half bad for a season many western skiers will remember for all the wrong reasons.
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