Season Pass FAQs

We will open Aspen Mountain and Snowmass for the winter season on November 27, 2025.

Operating dates for the 2025-2026 winter ski season are as follows:

- Aspen Mountain: November 27, 2025 - April 19, 2026
- Snowmass: November 27, 2025 - April 12, 2026
- Aspen Highlands: December 13, 2025 - April 12, 2026
- Buttermilk: December 13, 2025 – April 5, 2026

2025-2026 season passes are fully refundable through August 29, 2025. After that date, Travel Guard’s Multi-Event insurance plan can help cover your investment if you need to cancel your season pass for covered reasons prior to the beginning of the ski season or if other covered unforeseen circumstances arise during the ski season. Visit travelguard.com/multievent or call Travel Guard at 866-385-4839 for more information.

No. We have the same pass lineup we had last season, including the Premier Pass, Alpine Pass 2-Day, Alpine Pass 1-Day, and the Valley Pass. Aspen Snowmass also has an Uphill Pass, which is required to access all uphilling routes across our four mountains.

All season passes purchased prior to August 29, 2025 (including during the Spring Pass Sale) are fully refundable, for any reason, until August 29, 2025. After August 29, passes become non-refundable. Travel Guard’s Multi-Event insurance plan can help cover your investment if you need to cancel your season pass for covered reasons prior to the beginning of the ski season or if other covered unforeseen circumstances arise during the ski season. Insurance is available for domestic purchases only.

With the exception of our Uphill Pass that can be combined with any Season Pass, guests cannot have more than one Aspen Snowmass Season Pass. Our season passes are designed with extension day rates to accommodate extra days on the hill. You may have one of our partner passes (IKON and/or Mountain Collective) plus an Aspen Snowmass Pass.

Premier Pass benefits including friends and family vouchers will be available in the Aspen Snowmass App in the fall, so passholders can share their vouchers and bypass the ticket office and redeem online. Premier passholders will receive email notification when vouchers are available in the app, including instructions on how to transfer and redeem them. Other discounts such as those at Four Mountain Sports and Food & Beverage will continue to be pass-based and presenting your Aspen Card on premise, at the time of purchase, will be required.

2025-2026 Senior, Adult, and Premier Chamber Pass holders will receive a complimentary Ikon Base Pass.

To access this benefit, you must have an active, signed Ikon Privacy Release. Ikon will be in touch directly by email beginning late fall to activate your Ikon Base Pass.

Ikon Base Passes do not include access at Aspen Snowmass. For a comprehensive list of resorts that are not included with the Ikon Base Pass, visit ikonpass.com. Complimentary Ikon Base Passes are for the Senior, Adult, and Chamber Premier passholder only and are non-transferable.

For the 2025-2026 winter season, lift reservations will be required for Ikon Passholders. For a comprehensive list of resorts that require reservations and additional information, visit ikonpass.com. Reservations can be made in MyAccount on ikonpass.com once your Ikon Base Pass has been issued. Please note, Ikon Base Passes do not provide access to Aspen Snowmass or Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

All 2025-2026 Premier Pass holders will receive a complimentary Uphill Pass. Opt in is required during checkout. Passholders will receive an email starting this fall with additional pickup information.

2025-2026 Silver, Senior, Adult, College, Teen, and Child Premier Passes come with unlimited summer 2025 and summer 2026 sightseeing access on both the Silver Queen Gondola in Aspen and the Elk Camp Gondola on Snowmass.

Please note: If pass is used for sightseeing in summer 2025, the pass is no longer refundable.

The Alpine week runs Monday through Sunday. Alpine 1-Day Pass allows 1-day usage per week, Monday through Sunday. Alpine 2-Day Pass allows 2-day usage per week, Monday through Sunday.

The Alpine Pass 1-Day and 2-Day have no blackout dates and the week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday.

Yes, you may purchase additional days at 50% off the one day, in-resort lift ticket. Extension days can be purchased online by the Passholder by navigating to shop.aspensnowmass.com and logging into your account. Direct-to-lift access can be added onto your pass at checkout.

The Valley Pass offers 7 days of skiing and riding with no blackout dates. The Valley Pass was designed specifically with residents of the Roaring Fork Valley in mind. To purchase, you must have a Colorado Driver’s License or state issued ID that has an address within the Roaring Fork River Drainage area situated in Eagle, Pitkin, Garfield, or Gunnison Counties, or within the Colorado River Drainage area from and including the unincorporated No Name area to and including Rifle, and including the towns of Aspen, Basalt, Carbondale, El Jebel, Glenwood Springs, Marble, Meredith, New Castle, No Name, Redstone, Rifle, Snowmass, Snowmass Village, Woody Creek.

There are no blackout dates on the Valley Pass. Passholders can spread their winter season out however they see fit.

Yes, you can purchase additional days at 30% off the one day, in-resort lift ticket. Extension days can be purchased online by the Passholder by navigating to shop.aspensnowmass.com and logging into your account or you can set up direct-to-lift by adding a credit card to your profile and hit the slopes at the discounted rate whenever you scan through a gate without a reservation.

Yes. The Valley Pass can be purchased in person for non-Roaring Fork Valley residents, over the age of 18, at the Aspen Ticket Office the week of October 20-26, 2025, only. During this week, no address verification will be required when purchasing in-person.

No. If you had a 2024-2025 Valley Pass, it does not qualify you to purchase one the following season without verification. The Valley Pass requires annual qualification. For online and over the phone purchases, you must present Colorado Driver’s license or state issued ID that has an address within the Roaring Fork River Drainage area. 2025-2026 purchases without a Colorado ID must be made during our weeklong in-person sale, October 20-26, 2025 at the Aspen Mountain Ticket Office only from 9am-4:30pm.

Yes, the 2 or 3-days that come with your Mountain Collective pass will require reservations to ski and ride during the 2025-2026 ski season. Reservations will be available starting late fall. Additional days purchased at 50% off the one day, in-resort lift ticket rate above and beyond the days included with your Mountain Collective will not require reservations.

Yes, you may purchase additional days at 50% off the one day, in-resort lift ticket which will not require a reservation. Extension days can be purchased online by the Passholder by navigating to shop.aspensnowmass.com and logging into your account.

The purpose of this pass program is to enhance the guest experience for all through increased safety education, greater and more comprehensive communication to the uphill community and reduce friction between downhill and uphill guests on the mountain. Our efforts seek to proactively prevent injuries and address issues regarding the uphiller volume, routes and impacts to grooming.

There is a fee of $74 for an uphill pass of which $10 goes directly to our local search and rescue organization, Mountain Rescue Aspen. This pass is valid for one day or the entire season of uphill access. All Premier Pass products include the uphill pass at no additional cost, but passholders will need to opt-in to receive their Uphill Pass.

A picture and signed waiver will be required to uphill for the 2025-2026 winter season. A pass is required for all uphill activities (skiing, split boarding, snowshoeing, walking, etc.). The same pass is required for both a single day and the entire season.

All Uphill Passholders must wear our orange uphill strap with your Aspen Card while on mountain. If you are a new Uphill Passholder, please visit any ticket office for your uphill strap and pass. If you have an uphill strap from a previous season, please pick up your current 2025-2026 sticker at any ticket office starting this fall.

Aspen Skiing Company holds a Special Use Permit to operate our four mountains on a mix of public and private land. We have been working in conjunction with the Forest Service to better manage uphill access.

The program runs from November 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026. In the pre-season there will be heavy traffic on the slopes with snowmaking and mountain preparations underway. Please download and check the Aspen Snowmass App for the most up to date route and closure information.

Uphilling is permitted from 5:00am to 10:30pm throughout the winter season (November 1 through April 30). No uphill permitted outside of these hours. For up to date closures and notices about uphilling routes, please check the Aspen Snowmass App.

An uphill strap with a sleeve for your Aspen Card is required while uphilling. The strap with your pass is the first verification and can be acquired at a ticket office after your waiver has been signed and your photo taken. The Aspen Card page of the Aspen Snowmass App will display an indicator if you have valid Uphill access.

There are no pre-scheduled closures for the 2025-2026 season. There may be closures due to early season snowmaking and mountain preparation, avalanche threat and control work, crowding, events or other issues that will be communicated via email, social media, and on the Aspen Snowmass Website and app.

There will be periodic on-mountain uphill enforcement sessions as well as on-going Patrol, Guest Services, and Mountain Ops spot checks. Our hope is that people will respect this system and self-regulate their behavior.

Uphilling is permitted on designated routes on all four of our mountains.

Aspen Mountain Uphill Routes & Policies

Aspen Highlands Uphill Routes & Policies

Buttermilk Uphill Routes & Policies

Snowmass Uphill Routes & Policies

Dogs are not permitted on any mountain during ski area operating hours (7:45am-4:45pm). Outside of these hours, dogs are discouraged, but allowed. The privilege of allowing dogs on the ski areas outside of operating hours may be eliminated if we experience continued incidents.

No, all lifts require valid lift access via a lift ticket or season pass, which is not included with the Uphill Pass.

Sponsored Events

A pass is not required for sponsored race events (Power of Four, America’s Uphill, Summit for Life, etc.)

Other Events

Yes, an uphill pass will be required for social events (moonlight dinners, uphill breakfast, etc.).

No, there are no discounts associated with IKON or Mountain Collective Passes or CSCUSA Gold Passes.