Indy Pass returns to market with 50-plus new resorts and a 300-plus mountain lineup

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The independent ski pass is back on sale for a limited window, with more than 30 additional resort announcements still to come.

PARK CITY, Utah – After selling out in less than an hour last spring, Indy Pass is making another run at the 2026-27 ski season — this time with a much bigger resort network.

The independent-resort pass reopened for members of its waitlist Sept. 1, with any remaining passes scheduled to go on sale to the public Sept. 8. Indy says it has added more than 50 resorts since last winter and has now surpassed 300 destinations across the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan.

And the list isn’t finished growing.

Indy plans to announce more than 30 additional partners over the next week, culminating in a major announcement Sept. 8. The company has not yet disclosed the names of those resorts.

For skiers who can actually make use of the network, the math remains difficult for the larger multi-resort passes to match.

The Indy Pass costs $399 for adults, while Indy+ is $449. Both provide two days at each participating resort, although the base pass has blackout dates and Indy+ does not. Indy+ also includes discounted third-day access.

At 300 resorts, the $399 base pass works out to roughly $1.33 per resort if a skier were somehow able to visit every mountain. The $449 Indy+ works out to about $1.50 per resort.

Obviously, nobody is skiing 300 mountains in a season. That’s not really the point.

The more useful calculation is how quickly the pass pays for itself. Ski 10 participating resorts for two days each and the $399 pass works out to about $19.95 per ski day. Hit 20 resorts and that drops to roughly $9.98 per day.

That breadth is the entire pitch behind Indy Pass: rather than concentrating skiers at a handful of corporate-owned mega-resorts, it strings together hundreds of smaller and independent mountains.

And there is plenty of variety.

The current roster includes Western destinations such as 49 Degrees North, Brundage Mountain, Loveland Ski Area, Montana Snowbowl, Red Lodge Mountain, Saddleback, Silver Mountain and Sunlight Mountain, along with Utah resorts including Beaver Mountain, Eagle Point and Cherry Peak.

The network stretches far beyond the Rockies. There are New England standouts such as Jay Peak, Cannon Mountain, Magic Mountain and Bolton Valley, Midwestern hills including Mount Kato, Trollhaugen and Crystal Mountain, and a growing collection of Canadian resorts.

Then there are the destinations that make Indy Pass particularly unusual for a national pass: Japan, Finland, France, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Türkiye and the Czech Republic are all represented on the current roster.

Some of those destinations are hardly small ski hills. The current roster includes Baqueira/Beret in Spain, Portes du Soleil on the French-Swiss border, SkiWelt in Austria and Pizol in Switzerland, alongside tiny community mountains and Nordic centers.

That eclectic mix is increasingly the identity of Indy Pass.

The 2026-27 additions announced earlier this year included international resorts such as Les 7 Laux in France, Levi in Finland, Bergbahnen Hohsaas in Switzerland and Stranda in Norway, as well as U.S. additions including Pebble Creek in Idaho and several cross-country operations.

The pass also continues to blur the line between downhill and Nordic skiing. Its roster includes cross-country operations in addition to traditional lift-served resorts, and the standard pass includes two trail-pass days at Indy’s cross-country partners.

That expansion hasn’t been without some losses.

Several sizable Midwestern resorts that previously participated — including Lutsen Mountains in Minnesota, Granite Peak in Wisconsin and Snowriver in Michigan — have moved to the Ikon Pass network for 2026-27. The status of Idaho’s Tamarack Mountain Resort is also complicated by its addition to Ikon’s two-day tier, while Snow King in Wyoming is currently listed by both Indy and Snow Pass. Those changes mean the growing Indy roster isn’t simply an ever-expanding collection of returning resorts; the independent-pass landscape is becoming increasingly competitive.

Still, Indy says it is trying to grow without overwhelming the resorts that make the pass attractive in the first place.

The company introduced a 300 Resort Guarantee for the 2026-27 season. If the network falls below 300 partners by Nov. 1, passholders can request a refund on an unused pass before Dec. 1.

For now, that threshold is no longer much of a concern. Indy has already cleared it.

And there are still more mountains coming.

A few numbers worth highlighting
$399 — adult Indy Pass
$449 — adult Indy+ Pass
300+ — current partner resorts
2 days — included at each resort
50+ — new resorts announced since last season
30+ — additional partners still expected to be announced