Alterra Mountain Company

Alterra Mountain Company is an American hospitality company established in 2018 with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. It is privately owned by KSL Capital Partners and Henry Crown and Company, the owners of Aspen/Snowmass. It is a conglomerate of several ski resorts that offers a combined season pass.^[1]

Alterra Mountain Company

Company type	Private
Industry	Hospitality
Founded	2018; 7 years ago (2018)
Headquarters	Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Key people	Jared Smith (CEO)
Owners	Henry Crown and Company KSL Capital Partners
Website	alterramtnco.com

History

In April 2017, KSL and Aspen jointly purchased Intrawest.^[2] This acquisition was followed by Mammoth Resorts^[3] a few days later and Deer Valley^[4] in August. All of these assets were combined with KSL's Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows (the two ski resorts were combined and later renamed Palisades Tahoe^[5]) to form Alterra Mountain Company in January 2018.^[6]

In late January 2018, Alterra announced the Ikon Pass, a season pass that provides unlimited or restricted access to all of their ski resorts in collaboration with Alta Ski Area, Snowbasin, Arapahoe Basin,^[7] Aspen/Snowmass, Boyne Resorts, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Powdr Corporation, Revelstoke Mountain Resort, SkiBig3, and Snowbird.^[8] This is a competitor to Vail Resorts' Epic Pass.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

In 2021, Alterra Mountain Company announced its plans to invest $207 million in capital improvements for the upcoming year, including transformational base area and on-mountain developments at Steamboat, Deer Valley Resort, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain.^[14]

As of late 2021, the Chief Executive Officer was Jared Smith. ^[15]

List of resorts

• Big Bear Mt. and Snow Summit merged several years before Alterra was formed. The official title is: Big Bear Mountain Resorts.

Name	Location	Date opened	Date acquired	Notes
Arapahoe Basin	Summit County, Colorado	1945	February 8th, 2024	Alterra's newest mountain, bought in 2024.[16]
Big Bear Mountain	Big Bear Lake, California	1943	April 12, 2017	Merged with neighboring Snow Summit[17]
Blue Mountain	Collingwood, Ontario	1941	April 10, 2017	Third busiest ski resort in Canada[18]
Crystal Mountain Resort	Enumclaw, Washington	1962	October 1, 2018[19]
Deer Valley	Park City, Utah	1981	August 21, 2017	One of three resorts in the U.S. to not allow snowboarding[20]
June Mountain	June Lake, California	1962	April 12, 2017
Mammoth Mountain	Mammoth Lakes, California	1955	April 12, 2017	Eighth largest lift system in North America[21]
Snowshoe	Snowshoe, West Virginia	December 13, 1974	April 10, 2017
Snow Valley Mountain Resort	Running Springs, California	1924	January, 2023	Merged with nearby Snow Summit and Big Bear Mountain[22]
Solitude Mountain Resort	Solitude, Utah	1957	June 20, 2018[23]
Palisades Tahoe / Alpine Meadows	Olympic Valley, California Alpine Meadows, California	1949	—	Plans have been discussed to merge with neighboring resorts of Palisades Tahoe and Alpine Meadows incorporating a gondola that would cross White Wolf Mountain's proposed development.[24]
Schweitzer Mountain	Sandpoint, Idaho	1963	August 22, 2023	[25]
Steamboat	Steamboat Springs, Colorado	January 12, 1963	April 10, 2017
Stratton	Stratton Mountain, Vermont	December 1961	April 10, 2017	First ski resort to allow snowboarding in 1983[26]
Snow Summit	Big Bear Lake, California	1952	April 12, 2017	Merged with neighboring Big Bear Mountain[17]
Sugarbush Resort	Warren, Vermont	December 25, 1958	November 13, 2019	Acquisition finalized January 14, 2020.[27][28]
Tremblant	Mont-Tremblant, Quebec	1938	April 10, 2017	Second busiest ski resort in Canada[18]
Winter Park Resort	Winter Park, Colorado	1939	April 10, 2017