Some ski resorts embrace the ski lifestyle, with as many resources devoted to non-ski and après-ski experiences as to skiing itself. Others are what we call “skiers’ mountains.” Alta is unabashedly, ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- On our last day on the mountains surrounding Salt Lake City, David Rittenhouse and I decided to visit the venerable resort of Alta. No Olympic events scheduled there, but it is one ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... David Paul/Special to The Denver Post Alta Ski Area is one of the 16 resorts included in the Mountain Collective pass, which added Big Sky in Montana for the ...

Alta is blessed by a favorable geographic location that is rewarded with reliable, quality snow year after year after year. While known for its incredible powder skiing, skiers come to Alta from ...

The ski resort of Alta, Utah, basks in well-deserved accolades for burly terrain, massive snowfalls and a stoic devotion to a throwback vibe (chairlifts only, no snowboarding allowed). But skiers who ...

Over the years, the Alta Environmental Center has planted more than 42,000 trees and around 121,000 native plants.

ALTA, Utah To reach this tiny ski town at the top of a canyon, you jump on an easy flight to Salt Lake City, followed by a 45 minute drive into the mountains. But somewhere along the way you go ...

Alta Ski Resort is making some changes to their parking to help control the increase in skiers at the resort. Opening day is this Saturday, Nov. 20 and parking will remain on a first come, first serve ...

As of 6 pm on Friday, March 24, roughly 1,160 people are sheltering in place in base area facilities at Alta resort due to a natural avalanche cycle that has blocked Utah service road 210, according ...

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that the Alta Ski Area in Utah was within its legal right to ban snowboarders from its slopes. Turns out snowboarding may not, in fact, be protected by the ...

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