![]() Brighton, and Wilmot, as well as the company’s properties in Australia, Perisher, Falls Creek, and Hotham. As an example, the top tier product is the Epic Pass at under a thousand dollars ($939 for adults and $489 for children), which was already a bargain, but now offers unlimited, unrestricted (no blackout date or fine print) access to the seventeen newcomers plus: Whistler Blackcomb, Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Crested Butte, Park City, Heavenly, Northstar, Kirkwood, Stowe, Okemo, Mount Sunapee, Stevens Pass, Afton Alps, Mt. When the transaction closes, the 2019-20 Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass and Military Epic Pass will include unlimited and unrestricted access to all 17 Peak Resorts ski areas. Whistler Blackcomb is the largest and most popular ski resort in North America, and a great place to. For this reason, we are confident that our resorts and employees will continue to thrive within the Vail Resorts network.” Timothy Boyd, president and chief executive officer of Peak Resorts, said, “Vail Resorts has a proven track record of celebrating the unique identity of its resorts, while continually investing in the guest and employee experience. “The acquisition fully embodies our philosophy of Epic for Everyone, making skiing and riding more accessible to guests across the U.S. “We are incredibly excited to have the opportunity to add such a powerful network of ski areas to our Company,” said Rob Katz, chairman and chief executive officer of Vail Resorts, via release. Liberty Mountain Resort, Roundtop Mountain Resort, Whitetail Resort, Jack Frost and Big Boulder in Pennsylvania Alpine Valley, Boston Mills, Brandywine and Mad River Mountain in Ohio Hidden Valley and Snow Creek in Missouri Paoli Peaks in Indiana. The other Peak properties in the deal include: Snow, and now basically has no rival in this region, since there is nothing comparable to these for any competitor to buy, and Vail already owns Stowe and Okemo in Vermont, two of the Northeast’s best and most popular big resorts. In terms of the ultra-desirable New York market, Vail could not have picked up two better positioned resorts than Hunter and Mt. Snow, the southernmost major resort in Vermont and the closest of the top New England resorts, which in turn are by far the best skiing in the Eastern half of the United States, to New York City. The highest profile spots in the collection are Hunter Mountain in New York, which has long been the closest major mountain to the New York city tri-state metro area, the place many Big Apple residents up skiing Attitash, Wildcat and Crotched Mountains, a trio of major New Hampshire ski resorts serving the Boston market and Mt. With today’s move, Vail now adds many of the best options that are closest to New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland, St. However, until now, this has been limited to a few key metro areas like Boston (Mt. ![]() The idea is that if you ski at home on weekends and take one or more big ski vacations a year out west (or to Europe or Japan), by choosing the Vail-owned local spot as your home hill and buying the Epic Pass, you also get the free skiing at many of the best and most famed destination resorts on earth when you travel, a real win-win for skiers. Brighton, which serves the Detroit and Chicago metro areas, to lure travelers into its Epic Pass program. One of Vail’s most successful strategies has been to use smaller feeder mountains near large cities, like Michigan’s Mt. Hunter Mountainįor skiers and snowboarders, the big impact will be for those in large urban areas on the east Coast and Midwest, tens of millions of Americans. roughly 30 million in the metro area if they go season pass shopping. Hunter Mountain is the closest major ski resort to the NYC Metro area, and a game changer for. ![]()
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