Resort Uphill Policies
Please remember, as an uphill skier, you are a guest of these resorts. Please respect their policies, employees, and patrons in order to keep this uphill privilege available.
Choose your skin track to maximize visibility to other traffic while still maintaining a safe distance from such traffic. In low-lighting conditions, think along the lines of bicycle safety, with a solid white headlamp in front, blinking red light(s) in back, and reflective clothing. Remember that these are policies for uphill travel within the ski resort boundary, as opposed to backcountry access, which requires utilization of safe backcountry travel skills through potentially dangerous terrain.
Things are changing quickly with uphill access at ski resorts. If you do not see a link to your preferred ski area or the link doesn’t take you to the current uphill access information, please Google your local resort and ‘uphill access’ to find out their uphill travel policy. If you don’t find anything on their website, give them a call to confirm whether or not they allow uphill travel and if they do what their policy is before skinning up.
If you have any updates to these policies (changes, additions, etc) please email us from the contact us page.
Alaska:
Arizona:
California:
- Big Bear Mountain Resort – Not Allowed
- Diamond Peak
- Heavenly
- Homewood – Not Allowed
- Kirkwood
- Mammoth Mountain
- Sugar Bowl
Colorado:
- Arapahoe Basin
- Aspen Buttermilk
- Aspen Highlands
- Aspen Mountain
- Aspen Snowmass
- Beaver Creek
- Breckenridge
- Ski Cooper
- Copper Mountain
- Crested Butte
- Eldora
- Keystone
- Loveland
- Monarch Mountain
- Powderhorn
- Purgatory – Not permitted
- Steamboat
- Sunlight
- Telluride
- Vail
- Winter Park
- Wolf Creek Check in with patrol regarding conditions and daily routes
Connecticut
Idaho
Maine
Massachusetts:
Michigan:
Minnesota:
- Lutsen – Not Permitted
Montana:
- Big Sky
- Bridger Bowl: Allowed before and after operating dates
- Great Divide
- Red Lodge Mountain
- Snowbowl
- Whitefish
Nevada:
New Hampshire:
- Black Mountain
- Bretton Woods
- Cannon
- Cranmore
- Crotched
- Dartmouth Skiway
- Gunstock
- King Pine
- Loon
- Pats Peak
- Ragged Mountain
- Sunapee
- Waterville Valley
- Whaleback Mountain
- Wildcat
New Mexico
- Angel Fire – Permission is required
- Red River – Permission is required
- Ski Santa Fe
- Taos
New York:
North Dakota
Oregon:
Pennsylvania
Utah:
- Alta
- Beaver Mountain
- Brian Head – Not permitted during operating hours
- Brighton
- Cherry Peak – Allowed
- Deer Creek – Not permitted
- Eagle Point Resort – Must use Big Horn trail for uphill travel to access the backcountry gate at the top of Monarch Lift
- Nordic Valley – Uphill allowed on set runs with uphill pass
- Park City Mountain Resort/Canyons
- Powder Mountain – Not permitted during season
- Snowbasin
- Snowbird – Not permitted during season
- Solitude– No uphill traffic allowed
Vermont:
- Bolton Valley
- Bromley
- Burke
- Jay Peak
- Killington
- Mad River Glen
- Magic Mountain
- Middlebury Snowbowl
- Mount Snow
- Okemo
- Pico Mountain
- Smuggler’s Notch
- Stowe
- Stratton
- Sugarbush
Washington:
- Alpental and the Summit at Snoqualmie
- Crystal Mountain
- Loup Loup Ski Bowl
- Mission Ridge
- Mt Spokane
- Steven’s Pass
Wyoming