Vail Resorts and Alterra Mountain Company have released prices and details for the 2025-26 Epic Pass and Ikon Pass, respectively.
Vail's Epic Pass, offering unrestricted access to 42 ski areas, is now on sale for an introductory price of $1,051 for adults and $537 for children. The Epic Local Pass, offering unlimited access to 29 resorts and limited access to 13 destination resorts, is on sale for $783 for adults and $407 for children.
Epic Day passes are on sale for $47 to $100 per day.
Epic doesn't feature new ski areas but access will be significantly increased at Verbier 4 Vallées ski area in Switzerland, which this year only honors Epic Passes if skiers book resort lodging. That stipulation will go away next season.
In terms of on-mountain improvements at Vail Resorts mountains next year, perhaps the most substantial will be at Park City Mountain in Utah, where a new gondola is slated for opening. The 10-seat Sunrise Gondola will carry skiers and riders from the resort's Canyons Village base to the mid-mountain Red Pine Lodge, running roughly adjacent to the existing Red Pine Gondola and Orange Bubble Express lift. It will replace the two-seat Sunrise Lift.
Park City Mountain spokeswoman Emily McDonald explained that Sunrise Gondola will ease lines during peak base hours. It will also be less susceptible to high-wind delays than other Canyons Village base lifts due its pathway that is sheltered from prevailing winds.
Opening Epic Pass prices for next season increased from this season's opening prices of $982 for the unlimited pass and $731 for the Local Pass.
Alterra's Ikon Pass will go on sale March 13. The full Ikon Pass, offering unlimited skiing at 18 destinations and up to seven days at 41 other ski areas, has an opening cost of $1,329. The Ikon Base Pass, with unlimited skiing at 14 mountains and up to five days of skiing at 39 destinations, costs $909.
Alterra has discontinued the Ikon Base Plus pass, which offered a price point and access that bridged the gap between the full Ikon Pass and the Base Pass. Skiers must now purchase the full pass for access to mountains that had previously been on Base Plus but not Base.
The Ikon four-day pass is $459.
The full Ikon Pass this year will offer unlimited access for the first time at Alterra-owned Arapahoe Basin in Colorado. Both passes will also add Ischgl ski areas, which spans the Austria/Switzerland border.
The full pass will also provide two-free ski days at a collection of four new mountains; Jimmy Peak in Massachusetts, Cranmore in New Hampshire, Buck Hill in Minnesota and Wild Mountain, also in Minnesota.
New York's Windham Mountain Club will be removed from the pass.
The opening Ikon Pass is increasing from this season's cost of $1,249, while the opening Base Pass price goes up from last year's $869.