
Discover uncrowded slopes and perfect powder in Big Cottonwood Canyon. Features 82 runs across 1200 acres European-style village and legendary Honeycomb Canyon.
Solitude sits at the head of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah's Wasatch Range, spread across 1,200 acres (486 hectares) with 82 runs. The base is at 7,990 ft (2,436 m) and the summit at 10,490 ft (3,197 m), a vertical of 2,500 ft (761 m). Intermediates lead at 43%, followed by 30% advanced, 21% expert and just 6% beginner, so the mountain leans towards confident skiers. Nine chairlifts serve the mountain, including the Eagle Express six-pack, and the resort sits beside Brighton, with the two sharing the SolBright pass.
Honeycomb Canyon is the headline, a long valley behind Eagle Ridge that holds most of the resort's bowl skiing and is reached mainly by the Summit Express, with the Honeycomb Return quad bringing skiers back out. Headwall Forest adds steeper, tree-filled lines for advanced and expert skiers. The Powder Horn II quad and Eagle Express six-pack both reach the top of Eagle Ridge, while the Apex Express serves intermediate runs and the Moonbeam Express feeds the beginner terrain below. The SolBright run loops from the top of Summit down to the Sunrise lift to link across to Brighton. Solitude suits strong intermediates and advanced skiers who want steeps, glades and powder.
Solitude's season typically runs 20 Nov 2026 to 23 May 2027, roughly 184 days on snow. Check the live conditions before locking in your dates.
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Mammoth Mountain is first up in California, targeting Friday 13 November after a dusting of September snow. Heavenly and Northstar follow on 20 November, Palisades Tahoe on Wednesday 25 November and Sugar Bowl on 27 November, with Kirkwood on 4 December and June Mountain on 19 December. Plenty of smaller areas have no date yet. A super El Niño favours the Sierra, but a warmer storm track is the catch.

Arapahoe Basin, Keystone and Winter Park are all chasing an October start, though none has a firm date yet. The first dated openers are Breckenridge and Copper on Friday 6 November, then Vail on 13 November, with most of the rest bunched around US Thanksgiving. Hesperus did not open at all last season. A super El Niño offers hope but no guarantee, and forecasters say the southern mountains have the better odds.

Dolomiti Superski is spending around €100 million across its 12 areas before winter. Kronplatz gets a new 10-passenger gondola with a middle station, 3 Zinnen gets Helmissimo, and Val di Fassa swaps a chairlift for a gondola above Col Valvacin. New water-storage basins and upgraded snowmaking follow, and construction has started on the San Martino to Passo Rolle link. A peak adult day pass is €89.

Brian Head is targeting 6 November, though last year it aimed for 7 November and did not open until the 25th. Park City, Alta and Solitude are pencilled in for 20 November, Snowbird and Snowbasin for 27 November, and Deer Valley for 5 December. Eagle Point will stay closed after the Cottonwood Fire. A super El Niño is forecast, but the big snow is not expected until January.

Hintertux became Austria's second glacier to open for 2026-27 on Friday 2 October, after the Pitztal Glacier. Twelve kilometres of piste are running around the Olperer and Gefrorene Wand, served by one gondola and two drag lifts, with the Betterpark also open. Lifts officially run 8:15 am to 4:30 pm, but skiing stops at 2 pm for now.

A historically poor western winter cut Vail Resorts' annual net income from $280 million to $147.5 million and skier visits by 13.4 per cent. Now 2026-27 pass units are down 12 per cent as of 18 September, worse than the 10 per cent flagged in spring. Vail blames the weather and thinks some buyers are simply waiting, and it forecasts a rebound if the snow behaves.

Arizona Snowbowl advertised eight $1 lift ticket days this winter. Go looking and only three are showing - 10 March, 1 April and 10 April - so the rest may already have gone. The consolation is a calendar full of $9 days, including all but one day in April. Opening day is 20 November, weather permitting, and opening weekend is $19.

For years, Whitewater's Short Side was where you ducked a rope and hoped for the best: unmapped, ungroomed and unpatrolled. This winter it's inbounds. Six new runs of glades and fall-line skiing add 190 acres (about 77 hectares), taking the resort past 1,400 acres in total. F2 Logging spent a month in the trees to make it happen, and opening day is pencilled in for 4 December. Bonanza now needs less snow to groom, too.
Opening day for the winter 2026 - 2027 season is scheduled for Nov 20, 2026 (subject to change). Lift tickets at Solitude typically go on sale well before the start of the ski season.
Our lift ticket pricing was last updated on Sep 28, 2026.
Day passes start from US$39, with peak rates up to US$139.
Day Lift Ticket at Solitude Mountain Resort for the 2026/27 season, ages 13-64. Solitude uses fully dynamic date-based pricing; regular/peak reflect the confirmed low/high price observed across December 2026 on the resort's own booking calendar ($70 non-holiday to $139 for the Dec 27-31 holiday stretch). December sample only - January/February peak weeks may run higher.
Buy passDay Lift Ticket for youth 7-12 at Solitude Mountain Resort for the 2026/27 season. Dynamic date-based pricing; regular/peak reflect the confirmed low/high price observed across December 2026 ($39 non-holiday to $76 for the Dec 27-31 holiday stretch). December sample only.
Buy passDay Lift Ticket for seniors 65 and over at Solitude Mountain Resort for the 2026/27 season. Dynamic date-based pricing; regular/peak reflect the confirmed low/high price observed across December 2026 ($50 non-holiday to $100 for the Dec 27-31 holiday stretch). December sample only.
Buy passMulti-day Lift Ticket (2 out of 3 Days) for adults 13-64 at Solitude Mountain Resort for the 2026/27 season - total price for the pack, dynamic date-based pricing. Regular/peak reflect the confirmed low/high price observed across December 2026 start dates ($136 non-holiday to $270 for a Dec 27-31 start). December sample only.
Buy passMulti-day Lift Ticket (3 out of 4 Days) for adults 13-64 at Solitude Mountain Resort for the 2026/27 season - total price for the pack, dynamic date-based pricing. Regular/peak reflect the confirmed low/high price observed across December 2026 start dates ($201 non-holiday to $396 for a Dec 27-31 start). December sample only.
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