Besides Park City Ski Resorts: Deer Valley, The Canyons and Park City Mountain Resort, the Gnome has all the other great ski areas in Utah to visit including Alta, Brighton, Snowbird, Solitude, Sundance, Snowbasin, Wolf Creek, Powder Mountain, Beaver Mountain and Brian Head. You can find out more information about each of Utah’s Ski Resort by visiting the Ski Utah website.

Eleven of Utah’s resorts are within an hour’s drive of the Salt Lake City International Airport so the Gnome can get a lot of skiing done in a very short visit. In fact here is a group of people who skied all 13 Utah ski resorts in one day:

Skiing All 13 Utah Ski Resorts in 1 Day!

We hope the Roaming Gnome enjoys its stay in Utah and gets his fill of that light, fluffy, deep powder at all our resorts.  Don’t ski out of bounds, Gnome, ski with a buddy and you may want to wear an avalanche beacon anyway – not because of avalanche danger within resort boundaries, but because you are very short and our powder runs deep and we may lose you if you fall down!

Liftopia Discount Lift Tickets

What is Liftopia and how come they can offer lift tickets so cheap?  Well, I never heard of them until today so I looked at their “About Us” page for more info.  They basically say that the resorts want you to buy lift tickets, uh yah, and they can offer these tickets so cheap because you have to pay for them in advance and there are no refunds.  So they get you to spend money on a ticket that perhaps you otherwise would not have purchased. Then you are at the resort, having fun, spending more money on food, at the retail shops, lodging, etc. so Park City wins in the long run for offering this $40 discount and so do we!

Now you have to create an account at Liftopia in order to purchase the discount ski lift tickets online. No biggie and it is probably the hardest part about the whole deal.  I hate giving out my email to another online store, but Liftopia says, “Liftopia will never share, rent, sell or trade your information with anyone. We are committed to protecting your privacy.” I always use a separate email account (gmail & yahoo are easy for this) for buying things online, just to make sure my main personal account does not get spammed.   Anyway yes,  you do have to buy the lift tickets in advance and yes there are no refunds or transfers so be sure you can ski or snowboard that day.

Park City Screamin Deal Lift Ticket Discount December 12th – 18th, 2009

When you go to this page about the Park City Screamin Deal, the page shows for one particular date, like December 12th, but there is a little picture of a calender that says, “Flexible Dates? See More Deals” – just click on the link for more deals and you can pick any date between December 12th-18th.

Park City Discount Lift Tickets Dec 12-18, $38.99 Full Day – Go to Liftopia and choose your date by clicking on “Flexible Dates”

I have never purchased from Liftopia, but seems like an easy way to get a great discount if you know you can ski or board that day.  You make your purchase online and then bring your email receipt to the resort. Like I said before, no refunds, no cancellations, no exchanges or transfers to other people. You have to bring a photo id when picking up your tickets too.  They cannot offer deals like this with a lot of flexibility, otherwise why we would bother paying $80 for a lift ticket at the Park City Mountain Resort if it was easy to get it elsewhere at discount with no restrictions?

All Utah Resorts Lift Ticket Discounts

They appear to have the same deal for The Canyons Ski Resort as well, but when I clicked on the link, no dates were shown which may mean they are already sold out for The Canyons Resort or there are dates available further in the future. No discounts for Deer Valley, as I expected, but there are other deals for other Utah ski resorts like Brighton, Powder Mountain, Snowbird and Sundance . These resorts -  Alta, Brian Head, Beaver Mountain, Snowbasin, Solitude and Wolf Creek are listed but it says no lift ticket deals currently available – but that may change.
View all Utah resort discount lift tickets

They say you can buy tickets as late as the day before you go, but keep in mind there is a limited quantity of lift tickets for sale, so do not plan on $38 full day Park City lift tickets to last up until the last day you can purchase them.  As I write this, the Liftopia site says there are only 16 tickets left at this price – I think it means for that one particular day, but as word gets out, they will go quick, so go now!

View All Park City Mtn. Resort Lift Ticket Discounts
In addition to the Screamin Deal, they offer discounts on other days for $69.

Park City Discount Lift Tickets – Our summary page of other ways to get Park City lift ticket discounts.

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