Early-buyer season-pass prices — launching this weekend — are creeping higher this year, with both the heavyweights and the little guys inching up anywhere from a few bucks to $50.
No real shock there. Every year in the past few years, prices have ticked up a tad. Vail’s vaunted Epic Pass is selling for $649, up from $599 last year and $579 when the pass debuted in 2008, although the ski-anytime ticket now includes California’s Northstar-at-Tahoe. (Buy one this weekend at a Front Range Colorado Ski & Golf or Boulder Ski Deals store and get a $50 store credit.)
The Copper Mountain-Winter Park Rocky Mountain Super Pass Plus, which includes six days at Steamboat, is selling for $459, and just Copper-Winter Park is $409. Passes to each hill individually are $369. A season pass to Steamboat is $1,239. The 4-by-40 pass, good for two days at Winter Park and two at Steamboat, is $229.
Loveland Ski Area is renewing existing passes for $339, and new passes are $359. Arapahoe Basin is selling unlimited passes for $369.
Echo Mountain is selling season passes for $159. Aspen’s four-day classic pass, good at all four Aspen hills, is $199, while the seven-day is $329.
And for those who simply can’t decide, the Ski Country Gold Pass, a transferable medallion good at 22 ski hills, is $3,000.
