After a record-breaking 903” of snow last season, resorts are eager to welcome guests back with more lifts, terrain and amenities. 

Here’s what’s new for the new season from Ski Utah member resorts in alphabetical order since that’s the only fair way –

Powder Mtn

Alta Ski Area

The final five Wyssen towers (Remote Avalanche Devices or RACs) have been installed on Mount Baldy, to modernize and streamline avalanche mitigation work. In addition, the snow-making pipes in the Wildcat base area are being replaced and upgraded, and the old, inoperative Albion lift has been removed.  Again this season, Alta requires parking reservations on weekends and holidays.

Beaver Mountain Ski Area

Beaver Mountain is in year one of a two-year project on the new Marge’s Cabin, to include a new rental shop, snowsports school, skier services, retail space and cafe. Beaver is also adding additional parking.

 Brian Head Resort

Brian Head Resort now offers a “Free On-Snow Experience”, a series of self-guided, step-by-step clinics to prepare guests for the on snow experience. It is open to all ages and a great way to learn on-mountain and skier safety basics.  There is also new gladed terrain, ranging from beginner to most difficult, under the Wildflower Lift.  The Shotgun trail near the Giant Steps Express, also received extra glading. The resort collaborates closely with the U.S. National Forest to reduce the risk of wildfire, while protecting wildlife and watersheds.

Brighton Resort

Brighton has replaced the old Crest lift with the new Crest6, a high-speed, six-passenger chairlift, which provides access to runs in just 5 minutes.  The resort also has upgraded snowmaking and grooming, including purchase of a new Piston Bully diesel electric hybrid snowcat.   Parking reservations are required between 7am and 1pm daily.

Cherry Peak Resort

This family-owned resort near Logan adds tubing and improved snowmaking this season. Cherry Peak is nearly 400-acres featuring three triple chairlifts and a 1.25 mile-long run.

Deer Valley Resort

More than $12 million in improvements this season include a new village on the Jordan Valley side and access via U.S. Route 40. There also is upgraded food and beverage including renovating the second level of Royal Street Café into a 21+ apres-ski bar called “The Royal”, a new Kids Ski School lunch center on the second floor of Snow Park Lodge, and upgrading the interior of Silver Lake Lodge.

But the really big news is that Deer Valley will more than double its skiable terrain in the next few seasons, adding 3,700 additional acres The new terrain will include 16 new chairlifts, including a 10-passenger gondola and ski access across South Peak, Park Peak, Big Dutch, Pioche and Hail Mountains on the east side of Bald Mountain. Boasting nearly a 3,000 vertical drop from the highest point on Park Peak at 9,350 feet, the additional terrain will offer skiing for all abilities across 135 planned ski runs, including several wide-open bowls and gladed areas. More information can be found here: https://expandedexcellence.deervalley.com/.

Eagle Point

Eagle Point has updated the Skyline and Monarch lifts and made road improvements to Highway UT-153 and Upper Meadows Drive for easier access.

Nordic Valley

Nordic Valley is cutting two new trails on the Nordic Express terrain and expanded parking by 200 spots.

Park City Mountain

For its 60^th anniversary season, the resort has upgraded the Red Pine Gondola with brand-new cabins offering 360-degree views and a quieter, smoother ride. The new My Epic app will allow guests to buy a pass or lift ticket online, activate and store it on their phone, put their phone in their pocket, and get scanned, hands-free, via Bluetooth® technology. This will reduce the need to visit the ticket window or get a pass or lift ticket in the mail. This change reduces the waste created by plastic cards and RFID chips and supports the company’s Commitment to Zero sustainability commitment.

Powder Mountain

Under new management this season, a new cross-country skiing and snowshoeing trail network near the Village lift offers additional ways to get onto the snow. A new activity hub, dubbed the Launch Pad Yurt, opens in December near the top of the Village chair as the jumping off point for cross-country skiing,

snowshoeing, moonbike tours, snowmobile tours and more.  Also, The Tiger Tow is being replaced with a new Sunkid surface lift and will be open for night skiing.

Powder Mountain also is opening access to 500 acres of some of the steepest terrain accessible from the mountain.  Called DMI (Don’t Mention It), the new terrain offers incredible views of the Eden Valley and the Ogden Divide and 3000’ of vertical drop through tight chutes and open bowls. For safety, access is only via guided snowcat up Lightning Ridge, followed by a short hike to the drop-in point. Each group will be accompanied by two guides and provided with all necessary backcountry safety gear, including an avalanche beacon, probe and shovel.

 Snowbasin Resort

The Strawberry side of the resort opens a new 5,000 sq. ft. outdoor patio alongside the new six-pack high-speed DeMoisy Express, due to open in December 2023, increasing access to this popular area. It will feature a heated cobblestone patio with nearly 200 seats and multiple dining options at the base of Strawberry Gondola and the new lift.  Snowbasin also has added more than 100 additional parking spots to the Canyon Rim lot, with free shuttle service to the base area.

 Snowbird

Snowbird’s original Wilbere Lift—installed for the mountain’s opening in 1971 and named for Founder Ted Johnson’s wife and partner, Wilma—is being replaced. The current fixed grip double chair becomes a quad chairlift, increasing uphill capacity to 1,800 people an hour and reducing lift lines.

 Snowbird also has introduced the first-of-its-kind Kids Freeloader Pass program, to reduce barriers to entry for snow sports. The program gives anyone ages 18 or under a free Snowbird Season Pass when linked to an Adult, Military or Senior Snowbird Summit Pass. This 1:1 pass program means that a Snowbird Summit Passholder can give their Kids Freeloader Pass to a dependent, family member or community member at no cost, with no restrictions. And the new Mountain Center is a one-stop shop to make dinner reservations, book a snowcat or helicopter seat with Snowbird Mountain Guides, schedule a lesson with Snowbird Mountain School, buy lift tickets, and more. The Mountain Center is on the Snowbird Plaza Deck, just steps from new the Aerial Tram.

 Solitude Mountain Resort

Eagle Express has been removed to make way for a new high-speed 6-person lift. Installed in 1989, it was the first high-speed detachable chairlift in Utah. In addition to shortened wait times, the increased uphill capacity is expected to decrease congestion throughout the mountain. Eagle Express is projected to be operational by mid-December 2023. 

 The resort also has added three new Wyssen tower remote avalanche control systems (RACS) across Fantasy Ridge, which will allow Solitude’s avalanche mitigation team to detonate explosives remotely in terrain that currently requires personnel to manually deploy hand charges. With these detonations, crews will be able to move through avalanche terrain quicker, allowing terrain in Honeycomb Canyon to  open sooner after a major snowfall.

 Sundance Mountain Resort

Sundance Mountain Resort is offering expanded season pass benefits including a Friends & Family Program, 20% off daily ski or snowboard rentals and three days of skiing at a variety of partner resorts.  The new Jake’s Lift area improvements include a road realignment to eliminate skier road crossings and additional parking. There is also a new beginner run from Jake’s lift to the upper parking lots.

 Woodward

Woodward Park City has improved lighting to the tubing park and resurfaced the parking lot. Winter Camp returns Feb. 19-21, 2024 for skiers and snowboarders, ages 7-17.  New for 2024, US Ski and Snowboard athletes will join as guest coaches/pros.

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Evelyn Kanter is a NYC-based travel and environmental writer and a senior skier who would rather ride a chairlift, river raft or zipline than the subway, and has done so in the more than 100 countries she’s visited, skiing in many of them. In what she calls a “previous life”, she was a TV and radio news reporter for ABC News and CBS News, now a regular contributor to major publications, including airline inflights and AAA magazines, and has written or contributed to more than a dozen travel guidebooks.Her latest are “100 Things to Do in NYC Before You Die”, Fodor’s Essential Germany and Fodor’s New York City. Evelyn's website is www.ecoxplorer.com

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