Arapahoe Basin Goes Full Ikon, As Season Pass Sales Begin
If it's March, it must be time for multi-mountain passes to go on sale, and for those mega-passes to add, subtract or tweak their rosters.
For the 2025-2026 season, the top headline is that Arapahoe Basin will go unlimited under the Ikon Pass. Purchased by Ikon's parent company in November 2024, the legendary Colorado ski and snowboard area nonetheless remained as a seven-day partner for the 2024-2025 season.
For this upcoming season, the Ikon Pass will essentially act as A-Basin's season pass, although an Arapahoe Basin-only season pass will be available.
In other Ikon Pass news, the mega-pass has added four mountains in the East and Midwest -- Jiminy Peak, Cranmore, Wild Mountain and Buck Hill -- to its "bonus tier" which, for an additional cost, means two free days.
The Base-Plus Pass option is gone for next season. The choice was originally put on the control crowding at major areas -- especially Aspen Snowmass -- by adding a surcharge onto the Base Pass. And Alterra-owned Deer Valley increased options for its own season pass, including an Ikon Pass add-on, as the resort readies to nearly double its size for next season.
Vail Resorts' Epic Pass remains pretty much as-is for the 2025-2026, after its second year without a major acquisition since 2011. Access to Switzerland's Verbier has been added to further combine neighbor Swiss mountains under Vail aegis.
The ever-growing Indy Pass put Burke Mountain and Tenney Mountain in New England, two resorts in Europe and one in Chile. The two-days-free ticket now counts 237 resorts (181 alpine) among its members, with a 250-resort money-back guarantee in place for next season.
The portfolio at Mountain Collective lost one longtime member, Arapahoe Basin, after the resort said it would go full-on Ikon Pass next season. The two-days-free did give holders a bonus free day at a Mountain Collective resort of their choice.
As of now, the 12-mountain Power Pass that spreads out from the Four Corners area to the Pacific Coast, and the California-specific Cali Pass both remain with the same perks as this season.
