Save Money – Buy Passes Now for Next Season
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There’s still plenty of time left in this season for downhill turns and apres friendships, but that should not distract you from grabbing one or more of the next-season deals which just went on sale. Buy now and save money then.
These early-season prices should be in effect until around Memorial Day, when they have increased in past years, with another price increase around Labor Day. So – again – the sooner you buy, the more you save.
Indy Pass
We are putting this one first, because the number of annual passes is limited, and when they are gone, they are gone. It’s a great deal – starting at $299 for the Adult Base Pass for renewals and $349 for new buyers – for smaller, independent mountains.
New for next season are five additional mountains including Burke Mountain, Vermont; Tenney Mountain, New Hampshire; Corralco Mountain Resort, Chile; Rauriser-Hochalmbahnen, Austria; and Pila, Italy.
2025/26 Epic Pass
Prices are up around 6% for all pass types, including the full Epic Pass, which now costs $1,051, up from the current $982. It still provides unlimited and blackout-free access to more than a dozen resorts, including Beaver Creek, Park City, Hunter Mountain and Okemo.
Next season’s Epic Local Pass is $783, up about $50 from the current season, with unlimited and blackout-free skiing and riding at resorts including Breckenridge, Crested Butte, Mount Snow and Stevens Pass.
Although no new resorts have signed up for next season, Switzerland’s 4 Vallees is adding access to additional pass types.
Visit the Epic Pass website for more information, including new prices for strictly local and senior passes including the Northeast Value pass and Tahoe Local.
https://www.epicpass.com/passes/epic-pass.aspx
Mountain Collective
New for next season is a bonus third day at the member resort of your choice, which includes Alta, A-Basin, Jackson Hole, Snowbasin, Sun Valley, Taos and Valle Nevado (Chile). The pass costs $639 USD and $849 CAD for ages 18 and up, for 26 resorts around the world. There also are 25% discounted day tickets for friends and family.
Ikon Pass
There are big changes to this pass next season, with new resorts added, one leaving, and the end of the Base Pass Plus, plus price increases.
Pricing for the full Ikon Pass now starts at $1,329 and $909 for the Ikon Base Pass, up $50-$80 over the current season. The multi—day Session Pass remains the same, at $259.
Base Pass Plus provided access to premier destinations including Jackson Hole, Deer Valley and Snowbasin. The end of that pass apparently means those upscale destinations move into the full pass.
Windham Mountain Club is leaving the Ikon Pass at the end of this season, but Jiminy Peak and Cranmore in the Northeast and Wild Mountain and Buck Hill in Minnesota have joined as “bonus” mountains, offering two days each.
Also new is Ischgl, a resort in Austria that borders Switzerland.
See you on the slopes!
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If you are in the Southwest, I recommend the Power Pass, which includes Purgatory, Arizona Snow Bowl, Sipapu, and a number of others. Also 2 in Chile this summer if you buy it now. Best of all, it is free if you are 75 or better.