Some ski resorts embrace the ski lifestyle, with as many resources devoted to non-ski and après-ski experiences as to skiing itself. Others are what we call “skiers’ mountains.” Alta is unabashedly, ...

A team of MIT students analyzed lodges, lifts and locker rooms at the ski area to determine where guests are most at risk With snow absorbing the ambient chatter, the quiet at the top of an empty ski ...

Alta Ski Resort is making some changes to their parking to help control the increase in skiers at the resort. Opening day is this Saturday, Nov. 20 and parking will remain on a first come, first serve ...

As of 6 pm on Friday, March 24, roughly 1,160 people are sheltering in place in base area facilities at Alta resort due to a natural avalanche cycle that has blocked Utah service road 210, according ...

The ski resort of Alta, Utah, basks in well-deserved accolades for burly terrain, massive snowfalls and a stoic devotion to a throwback vibe (chairlifts only, no snowboarding allowed). But skiers who ...

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There was no calm before the storm in the days, even hours before Alta Ski Area’s pilot paid-parking program was set to start this weekend. A tentative agreement brokered with the Town of Alta broke ...

In an Instagram post on March 15, the resort team thanked the public for their patience, and said the resort will reopen once it becomes accessible to both staff and guests again. WOFFORD HEIGHTS, ...

Alta is blessed by a favorable geographic location that is rewarded with reliable, quality snow year after year after year. While known for its incredible powder skiing, skiers come to Alta from ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah resort long known as a skiers’ mountain has been sued for refusing to open its slopes to snowboarders — a legal action that again exposed a culture clash on the slopes. In ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- On our last day on the mountains surrounding Salt Lake City, David Rittenhouse and I decided to visit the venerable resort of Alta. No Olympic events scheduled there, but it is one ...

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