Family Friendly Ski Resorts: One Day for Four Hits $776
Twelve US family ski resorts scored on what they charge kids and on whether they’ll tell you the price at all.
Quick Answer
- ⛷️ The most family friendly ski resort of the twelve is Ski Santa Fe: for a family of four, two adult and two child weekend lift tickets come to $400 (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe).
- 🎫 Its full day kids’ lesson for ages 5 to 11 puts the lift ticket, rental gear and lunch in one price, which none of the other eleven resorts match (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe).
- 🎟️ Two of the twelve sell a $1 a day child ticket rather than a free one, and at both the band ends years before the two free deals that reach double digits.
- 🧾 Three of the resorts here hand over their cheap or free child skiing only after a parent buys in first, and what you have to buy isn’t the same at any of them.
- 🚫 Skip this guide if you’ve already picked your mountain, or if you want the line by line anatomy of a ski week instead of a ranking: our family ski trip cost guide does that job.
- 🧮 Put your own dates and party size into the family budget calculator before you commit a week to any of them.
- ⬇️ Below: the resort whose four seat lift day falls by nearly a third between a holiday and a Tuesday, and undercuts the winner once it does, under “The Cheapest Place to Ski With a Family, and the Five Day Subtotal”, then every published kids ski free age cutoff, under “Kids Ski Free: the Age Cutoffs, Resort by Resort”.
Which resort is kindest to your kids, or which one will tell you what it charges them before you reach a checkout? Six of the twelve resorts here publish a day rate you can actually add up for four, and six don’t (as of August 2026). Start with the scoring anchors below, then put your real dates into the family budget calculator.
How We Ranked These Family Friendly Ski Resorts
Every resort here is scored out of 25 on the Family Ski Value Score: five factors, 0 to 5 each, all built from what the resort publishes on its own site. If a resort doesn’t publish a number, it doesn’t get credit for one, and that alone moves famous names down the table.
The basket is a family of four: two adults and two kids, ages 7 and 10.
The five factors, with their anchors
Each anchor is a rule, not a judgment call, so you can re-score any resort from its own ticket page.
- Kids’ lift cost. 5 = a free or $1 child ticket published to age 10 or older with no purchase condition. 4 = the same, but conditional on an adult buying a pass. 3 = free or $1, cutoff age 6 or younger, no condition. 2 = free or $1, cutoff age 6 or younger, conditional. 1 = no free or $1 child band published at all.
- Price clarity. 5 = a full day rate card with age bands published for the coming 2026-27 season. 4 = the same card, but for 2025-26. 3 = day ticket prices published with no age ranges stated. 2 = age bands or ticket products listed with no day ticket prices, or day prices marked coming soon, or only season pass prices published. 1 = no day ticket rate card reachable on the resort’s own site and no priced ticket product of any kind on it.
- Lesson value. 5 = a full day kids’ lesson price published that includes lift, rentals and lunch. 4 = a full day price that includes lunch but not lift or rentals. 3 = a full day price with none of the three. 2 = multi week programs only, or a day rate published only inside an image. 1 = no kids’ lesson price published.
- Junior band reach. 5 = a discounted paid band that runs to age 18 or older. 4 = to age 15, 16 or 17. 3 = to age 12, 13 or 14. 2 = to age 11 or younger. 1 = no discounted paid band published. A discounted paid band published without a stated age range scores 2, since the resort has not evidenced reach beyond a junior rental band. A free or $1 child band scores under kids’ lift cost and isn’t counted again here.
- Four seat lift day. 5 = a published four seat peak day under $450. 4 = $450 to $549. 3 = $550 to $649. 2 = $650 or more. 1 = no four seat day can be built from published rates.
Ties break on the four seat lift day, cheapest first; where neither publishes one, on kids’ lift cost, highest first.
The Most Family Friendly Ski Resort in the US (and what it costs for four)
Ski Santa Fe takes it at 20 out of 25. Two adult weekend tickets at $124 and two child tickets at $76 come to $400 for the four of you on the busiest kind of day, or $352 midweek (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe). The child band runs 6 to 12 and the young adult band 13 to 23, so your 14 year old still isn’t paying an adult rate.
It wins on the lesson line, not the lift line. Its full day kids’ program for ages 5 to 11 costs $292 in the with rentals column, and that covers the group lesson, the lift ticket, the rental gear and lunch (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe). Both kids in the beginner day costs $584 with nothing else to buy. No other resort here bundles all four into one published number: at the resort ranked second, there is no full day lesson price to compare at all.
What it doesn’t have is a free child band: the youngest ticket, Freedom, covers ages 0 to 5 and still costs $22 a day (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe).
The mountain has no base village, so you sleep in town and lodging behaves like city lodging. Check current rates near Ski Santa Fe in a second tab, set them beside the $400 lift day, and book the week that keeps both columns under your cap.
Top Picks for Three Kinds of Family
Ski Santa Fe, New Mexico
The only resort here that puts lift, rentals, lesson and lunch into one published kids’ price, and the cheapest addable four seat weekend day at $400 (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe). Weak spot: nobody skis free, and the 0 to 5 ticket costs $22.
Smugglers’ Notch, Vermont
Its youth band runs 6 to 18, so a 17 year old pays $99 on a peak day rather than $125, and $69 on a Tuesday (as of August 2026, source: Smugglers’ Notch Resort). The catch is the lesson: the only priced options are multi week weekend programs, $675 to $725, so there is no full day rate to compare.
Purgatory, Colorado
Kids 12 and under ski free on a Power Kids pass for 2026/27, and the only conditions are proof of age and a signed waiver, not an adult pass purchase (as of August 2026, source: Purgatory Resort). It ranks seventh overall because it publishes no adult day rate and no paid age bands, so there is no four seat day to build.
The Full Ranking: 12 Family Ski Resorts by Lift Day Cost
One thing before you read it: this prices the lift line for a single day, not a week. Nobody here publishes a seven night rate for four, so the week lives in our family ski trip cost guide. What the table proves is that the family friendly reputation and the published family price aren’t the same ranking, and that six of the twelve won’t give you an addable price at all.
| # | Resort | State | Kids’ lift cost | Price clarity | Lesson value | Junior band | Four seat day | Total /25 | Four seats, one peak day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ski Santa Fe | NM | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | $400 (2 × $124 adult + 2 × $76 child) |
| 2 | Smugglers’ Notch | VT | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 19 | $448 (2 × $125 adult + 2 × $99 youth) |
| 3 | Waterville Valley | NH | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 16 | $540 (2 × $145 adult + 2 × $125 junior) |
| 4 | Monarch Mountain | CO | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | $616 (2 × $179 adult + 2 × $129 junior) |
| 5 | Angel Fire | NM | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 15 | $462 (2 × $136 adult + 2 × $95 junior) |
| 6 | Snowbasin | UT | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 14 | $776 (2 × $229 adult + 2 × $159 youth) |
| 7 | Purgatory | CO | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | not published |
| 8 | Big Sky | MT | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | not published |
| 9 | Jay Peak | VT | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | not published, day ticket page withdrawn |
| 10 | Powder Mountain | UT | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | not published |
| 11 | Holiday Valley | NY | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | not published, see the note below |
| 12 | Boyne Mountain | MI | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | not published |
| Six of the twelve publish a day rate you can add up for four. Cheapest addable four seat peak day: $400 at the resort ranked first. Priciest: $776 at the resort ranked sixth. The gap between them is $376 for a single day on the lifts (ETP basket; components sourced above, as of August 2026). | |||||||||
Peak day means the highest published rate for a ticket the resort’s own page prices as a single day: weekend and holiday at Snowbasin, Ski Santa Fe and Smugglers’ Notch, highest walk up at Angel Fire, peak tier at Monarch, and the single published full day rate at Waterville Valley, which prices no weekend or holiday tier at all; all six are 2025-26 cards, Monarch’s dated by the holiday footnotes on its own page. Jay Peak’s 2025-26 day ticket page was withdrawn by the resort in August 2026 and no replacement is published, so its cell is blank. Holiday Valley lists a Weekend / Holiday All Day ticket at $115 adult and $91 junior alongside a Saturday & Sunday All Day ticket at $185 and $152 that sits beside a two day weekday ticket at $152 and $109 and a consecutive days clause, so we could not establish which weekend price covers a single day and its cell reads not published (as of August 2026, source: Holiday Valley).
If the table has already settled it for you, check current rates near Ski Santa Fe in a second tab, with the $400 lift day already in the sum.
Methodology and Data Limits
Every price above was read off the resort’s own site in August 2026 and quoted with its season; where 2026-27 rates weren’t posted, the 2025-26 card is used and labelled. Lodging isn’t scored, because none of the twelve publishes a seven night rate for four. Ties break on the cheaper four seat day, and a blank loses to any price. The five factors are an editorial choice, even though every cell is mechanical: our methodology page and the family vacation cost index hold the wider scoring work.
The Cheapest Place to Ski With a Family, and the Five Day Subtotal
Cheapest on published rates is Ski Santa Fe at $400 for four on a weekend and $352 midweek (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe). Smugglers’ Notch is next at $448 on a peak weekend or holiday, and $308 midweek in regular season (as of August 2026, source: Smugglers’ Notch Resort). Angel Fire is third at $462 at the window and $384 booked online (as of August 2026, source: Angel Fire Resort).
Notice what happened there. Smugglers’ Notch drops $140 for four between a peak day and a midweek one, and midweek it undercuts Ski Santa Fe by $44; on the peak day it costs $48 more. The whole swing is a holiday surcharge, which is a scheduling decision rather than a destination one.
The week total is the part no lift ticket page gives you. Five midweek days for four at Ski Santa Fe come to $1,760 of lift tickets, before a bed, a rental or a lesson. For the rest of the week, our family ski trip cost guide holds the figures of record, and our affordable winter family vacations guide covers the non ski alternatives.
Kids Ski Free: the Age Cutoffs, Resort by Resort
This is the value index. Read the second column before the first: a free ticket with a purchase attached is a discount on the adult ticket, not a free ticket.
| Resort | Free or $1 child ticket, as published | What it requires | Kids’ lesson day rate | Kids’ rental package | Kids eat free | Pass network | Season of record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ski Santa Fe | None. “Freedom (0-5 or 72+)” costs $22 a day | Proof of age at purchase | Ski Full Day, ages 5-11, $292, lift and rentals and lunch included | Ski package (skis, boots, poles): $55 adult, $41 youth 12 and under | None published | Independent | 2025-26 |
| Smugglers’ Notch | “Youth (5 & under) Free!”, on the day ticket card | Nothing | No full day rate. Multi week weekend programs $675 to $725; a daily two hour Learn to Ski at $139, ages 7 and up | Not published | None published | Independent | 2025-26 |
| Waterville Valley | “TYKE (5 & UNDER)/80+ FREE” | Nothing | Not published | Ski package $49 for ages 6-12, $39 for 5 and under | None published | Indy Pass | 2025-26 (2026-27 marked coming soon) |
| Monarch Mountain | No band published below age 7 | n/a | Full day group lesson, ages 7-12, $99, lunch included, lift and rentals not included | Child 3-6 $19 to $39 and junior 7-12 $29 to $49 by tier, skis, boots and helmet | None published | Independent | 2025-26 |
| Angel Fire | None. “Child** (6 and younger)” costs $22 online | Buying online rather than at the window | Published only inside an image on the lesson page | Not published | None published | Independent | 2025-26 |
| Snowbasin | “Children (0-4): Free” | Nothing | Four week programs are the only priced option, $569 to $649; the daily Cubs and Bears programs publish no price | Youth package, 12 and under, from $43 a day, skis, boots, poles and helmet | None published | Ikon Pass | 2025-26 |
| Purgatory | “Kids 12 and under always ski FREE!” | “Proof of age and signed waiver are required” | Child full day, $209 Monday to Thursday, $229 Friday to Sunday, $249 peak, lunch included, rentals not included; the lift is free for 12 and under anyway | Child package, ages 4-12, $39 standard days and $44 on holiday dates, plus $5 if bought day-of, skis, boots and poles | None published. Passholders get “10% off at any U.S. Power Pass resort restaurant location” | Power Pass | 2026-27 kids free; lessons and rentals 2025-26 |
| Big Sky | “ages 6 & under are $1/day” | A lift ticket and a one time $5 Sky Card, no adult purchase | Group lesson ages 3 and up from $230, full or half day, lunch included on full days, lift and rentals not included | No youth rate; packages from $78 for all ages | None published | Ikon Pass | 2025-26 |
| Jay Peak | “Toddler Season Pass is FREE when purchased at the same time as an Adult Season Pass”, ages 5 and under; no free day ticket, and the paid Toddler day price went with the 2025-26 page | An adult season pass bought at the same time; one free Toddler pass per adult pass | Full day, ages 4-13, $264 midweek to $329 holiday, lift not included | Junior 6-15 package $50; Toddler 5 and under $25 | None published | Indy Pass | 2026-27 passes and lessons; no day tickets |
| Powder Mountain | “kids 12 and under now ski for FREE”, as season passes | “purchase an Unlimited Adult, Senior, or Military pass”, then “up to two free Season Passes”; the pass page itself says ages 5-12 | Not published | No youth rate; day sport package from $54 | None published | Independent | 2026-27 |
| Holiday Valley | None published | n/a | Not published | Junior 11 and under, all day $43 | None published | Independent | Not stated on the rate page |
| Boyne Mountain | “Kids 5 and under ski/ride for $1 each day” | “with a paying adult skier or snowboarder” | Not published | Junior 12 and under package with helmet $56 a day, $62 peak | None published | Ikon Pass | Not stated |
| Eight of the twelve publish a free or $1 child ticket at all. Three of those eight attach a condition: Powder Mountain needs an adult Unlimited, Senior or Military pass first, Jay Peak needs an adult season pass bought at the same time, and Boyne Mountain needs a paying adult skiing alongside. Published cutoffs land on age 4, 5, 6 and 12. Not one of the twelve publishes a kids eat free offer (as of August 2026, sources: Snowbasin, Big Sky Resort, Waterville Valley Resort, Purgatory Resort, Smugglers’ Notch Resort, Jay Peak Resort, Powder Mountain and Boyne Mountain). | |||||||
Pass network comes from each operator’s own destination list: Ikon names Snowbasin, Big Sky Resort and Boyne Mountain; Indy names Jay Peak Resort and Waterville Valley Resort; the Power Pass names Purgatory Resort. The six marked independent appear on none of the three. Epic’s destination page refused automated retrieval, so read independent as “not on Ikon, Indy or the Power Pass” (as of August 2026, sources: Ikon Pass, Indy Pass and Power Pass).
The $1 ticket that isn’t a free ticket
Two of the twelve sell a dollar rather than nothing. Big Sky prices ages 6 and under at $1 a day in winter, and Boyne Mountain does the same for ages 5 and under, all season, with a paying adult (as of August 2026, sources: Big Sky Resort and Boyne Mountain). Where it matters is the cutoff: Big Sky’s dollar ticket ends the day your child turns 7, and they move into a Junior 7-14 band whose price Big Sky doesn’t publish at all.
Compare that with Purgatory, where the free band runs to 12 and the paperwork is a waiver (as of August 2026, source: Purgatory Resort). Powder Mountain reaches 12 too, but by season pass benefit: buy an Unlimited Adult, Senior or Military pass and you can receive up to two free season passes for kids 12 and under (as of August 2026, source: Powder Mountain). Jay Peak runs the same trick at the other end of the age range, handing over a free Toddler season pass for a 5 year old when you buy an adult pass alongside it (as of August 2026, source: Jay Peak Resort).
At the other end, Snowbasin gives ages 0 to 4 a free ticket and charges a 5 year old $119 on a weekday, $159 on a weekend (as of August 2026, source: Snowbasin).
The Best Place for Kids to Ski by Age: 3-6, 7-12, Teens
Ages 3 to 6
Two things matter: the lift price and the ski school age floor. Snowbasin and Waterville Valley publish free tickets, to age 4 and to age 5 (as of August 2026, sources: Snowbasin and Waterville Valley Resort). Jay Peak’s morning half day for ages 4 to 6 costs $209 midweek and $219 at weekends for 2026-27, lift not included (as of August 2026, source: Jay Peak Resort).
Ages 7 to 12
This is where free skiing either exists or it doesn’t, and mostly it doesn’t. Purgatory and Powder Mountain are the only two reaching 12, and only one without a pass purchase. Everywhere else your 7 year old pays a junior rate: $76 at Ski Santa Fe on a weekend, $95 at Angel Fire at the window, $129 at Monarch on a peak day (as of August 2026, sources: Ski Santa Fe, Angel Fire Resort and Monarch Mountain).
Teenagers
The teen years diverge by hundreds of dollars a week, and the tell is the top of the junior band. Jay Peak and Smugglers’ Notch run theirs to 18, and Ski Santa Fe discounts to 23 (as of August 2026, sources: Jay Peak Resort, Smugglers’ Notch Resort and Ski Santa Fe). Monarch, Angel Fire and Waterville Valley hold a teen band to 17. Snowbasin doesn’t: at 13 your kid pays the adult rate.
All-Inclusive Ski Vacation Packages: What They Actually Cover
Ski packages aren’t all inclusive in the Caribbean sense. What’s bundled, on these twelve published pages, is a lesson and its inputs, not a holiday.
The clearest example is Ski Santa Fe’s full day kids’ program: one price for lesson, lift ticket, rentals and lunch (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe). Jay Peak’s equivalent bundles the lesson but sells lunch as a $55 add on and rentals at $40 to $47 a day, with lift tickets separate (as of August 2026, source: Jay Peak Resort). Big Sky’s group lesson for ages 3 and up starts at $230 and includes lunch on full days, but the page states plainly that lift access and rentals are not included (as of August 2026, source: Big Sky Resort).
So the honest test is a subtraction. Write down the four things a kid needs on the hill, lift, gear, instruction and food, then tick off which the price covers. One resort here covers all four, and three cover two: Big Sky and Monarch with a lunch included lesson at $230 and $99 that leaves lift and gear to you, and Purgatory at $209 to $249 with lunch in and gear out, though there the lift is free anyway for a child of 12 or under. Everywhere else covers one or publishes no price at all (as of August 2026, sources: Big Sky Resort, Monarch Mountain and Purgatory Resort).
The Least Crowded Ski Resorts in the US
Nobody can answer this honestly from public data, so be wary of any page that ranks it. Resorts don’t publish skier counts.
What they do publish is a price calendar, which is a crowd calendar. Monarch prices three tiers, Low, Standard and Peak, at $119, $149 and $179 for an adult day (as of August 2026, source: Monarch Mountain). Snowbasin runs two, and names the dates it expects a crowd: Friday to Sunday, December 23 to January 3, January 19 and February 16 (as of August 2026, source: Snowbasin).
Read those dates as a warning, not a price list.
Family Ski Resorts Near Texas: the Drive-To Option
Two of the most common searches here are regional, and the answers differ in kind. For Texas families the drive is real: Angel Fire and Ski Santa Fe sit in northern New Mexico, roughly a day from Dallas, and both publish full rate cards. Angel Fire prices adults from $114 online to $136 at the window, juniors 7 to 12 from $78 to $95, and a child of 6 and younger at $22 to $29 (as of August 2026, source: Angel Fire Resort). Four seats at the window come to $462.
California families get no row here at all: not one of the twelve sits in the state, and the drive-to logic that makes Angel Fire and Ski Santa Fe work for Dallas doesn’t transfer to a Tahoe week.
UK readers: our UK family ski half term guide covers the European resorts in sterling.
Which One’s Right for Your Family?
Your kids are 4 and 6
Go where the lift is free. Snowbasin publishes free tickets to age 4 and Waterville Valley to age 5, so one of your two rides for nothing (as of August 2026, sources: Snowbasin and Waterville Valley Resort). Our winter family vacation destinations guide covers the snow trips that aren’t ski trips.
Your kids are 8 and 11
Purgatory is the only resort here that puts both of them on the lift for nothing, with no purchase attached (as of August 2026, source: Purgatory Resort). Budget for what it doesn’t publish, which is the adult day rate. The full day lesson is priced, $209 midweek to $249 peak with lunch in it, and a child rental package is $39 on a standard day, $44 over the holidays (as of August 2026, source: Purgatory Resort). Our affordable winter family vacations guide covers the weeks that don’t need a lift ticket.
You’re driving, not flying
Angel Fire or Ski Santa Fe from Texas: both publish a four seat day you can add up before you leave, and the figures sit in the drive-to section above. Six of the twelve won’t let you do that arithmetic at all. Our winter family vacation destinations guide has the drive-to snow trips that skip the lift ticket entirely.
You want the whole week costed, not one day
This page prices the lift line. The rest of a ski week lives in our family ski trip cost guide, which holds the Colorado and northeast week figures of record.
Our Take
Booking one of these tomorrow with a 7 and a 10 year old, we’d take Ski Santa Fe, and not for the $400 day. It’s that we could work out the whole ski school bill, $584 for both kids with lift, gear and lunch inside it, before spending anything (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe). Purgatory’s free skiing to 12 is the better single deal, and we’d take it in a heartbeat if it published the rest of its prices.
The uncomfortable finding sits in the table footer: six of these twelve won’t show a family a price it can add up.
Check current rates near Ski Santa Fe in a second tab and book the week where lodging plus the $400 lift day stays under your cap.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most family friendly ski resort?
On the five factors scored here, Ski Santa Fe finishes first at 20 out of 25. It’s the only one of the twelve whose full day kids’ lesson price covers the lift ticket, the rental gear and lunch together, and two adult plus two child weekend lift tickets come to $400 (as of August 2026, source: Ski Santa Fe). It loses points because it publishes no free child band.
Where is the best place for family skiing?
New Mexico and northern Vermont come out best on published, checkable numbers. Ski Santa Fe scores 20 and Smugglers’ Notch 19, and both publish a full day rate card with age bands on their own site, so you can add up a family day before you book anything (as of August 2026, sources: Ski Santa Fe and Smugglers’ Notch Resort).
Where is the cheapest place to go skiing with a family?
Of the six resorts here whose day rates you can actually add up for four, Ski Santa Fe is cheapest on a weekend at $400, ahead of Smugglers’ Notch at $448 on a peak day and Angel Fire at $462 at the window (as of August 2026, sources: Ski Santa Fe, Smugglers’ Notch Resort and Angel Fire Resort). Midweek all three drop further, and Smugglers’ drops furthest, to $308.
Where is the best place for kids to ski?
For a kid under 5, Snowbasin and Waterville Valley both publish a free child ticket, so the lift line costs nothing (as of August 2026, sources: Snowbasin and Waterville Valley Resort). For a kid of 7 to 12, Purgatory publishes a free Power Kids pass for ages 12 and under with no adult purchase attached (as of August 2026, source: Purgatory Resort).
Where is the best place to ski with kids?
It depends which cost you’re trying to kill. Kill the lift line and Purgatory wins outright with free skiing to age 12. Kill the lesson bill and Ski Santa Fe wins, because one price covers lift, rentals and lunch for ages 5 to 11 (as of August 2026, sources: Purgatory Resort and Ski Santa Fe).
What is the least crowded ski resort in the US?
No resort publishes its skier counts, and the National Ski Areas Association’s own visit tables aren’t publicly fetchable, so treat any ranked answer with suspicion. What resorts do publish is a price calendar, and it’s a crowd calendar. Monarch prices three tiers and Snowbasin two, and the cheap tier is the quiet one (as of August 2026, sources: Monarch Mountain and Snowbasin).
Is Aspen or Vail Colorado better?
Aspen publishes a range rather than a rate card: advance purchase adult lift tickets run $184 to $264 depending on the date on the 2025-26 card, with reduced child, teen and senior tickets (as of August 2026, source: Aspen Snowmass). Vail’s lift ticket page returned no readable rate card in August 2026, so there’s no like for like day rate to set against it. Our family ski trip cost guide holds the Colorado ski week figures of record.
Data Sources and Verification
Every price, age band and policy on this page was read on the resort’s own website on 25 August 2026 and is quoted with the season the resort attached to it. Where a resort hadn’t posted 2026-27 rates, the 2025-26 card is used and labelled as such. Where a page returned no price, an error or a coming soon notice, the row says so rather than carrying an older figure forward. Pass network comes from each pass operator’s own destination list. The kids eat free column reflects a site search of all twelve resort domains on the same date, which returned no such offer at any of them.
- Ski Santa Fe: lift tickets, kids’ lessons, rentals
- Jay Peak Resort: season passes and age bands, kids’ group programs, rentals
- Angel Fire Resort: lift tickets, children’s lessons, rentals
- Monarch Mountain: lift tickets, lessons, youth programs, rentals
- Aspen Snowmass: lift tickets
- Snowbasin: lift tickets, youth lessons, rentals
- Big Sky Resort: lift tickets, lessons, rentals
- Holiday Valley: lift tickets, rentals
- Waterville Valley Resort: lift tickets, lessons, rentals
- Purgatory Resort: lift tickets, passholder benefits, child lessons, rentals
- Smugglers’ Notch Resort: lift tickets, season passes, kids’ lessons, rentals
- Powder Mountain: kids ski free, season passes, rentals
- Boyne Mountain: lift tickets, rentals, youth lessons
- Ikon Pass: destinations
- Indy Pass: our resorts
- Power Pass: resorts
- National Ski Areas Association: industry statistics
Lift ticket, lesson and rental prices change without notice and several of these resorts price by date. Re-check the resort’s own page before booking. Last verified August 2026.