2026-27 Indy Pass Release: Base+ Price Drops; 3 North American and 5 European Ski Areas Join
Two days each at 227 Alpine ski areas across our favorite planet
The Storm is once again partnering with the Slopes ski tracker app to document my 2025-26 ski season. This year, you can find me on the hill using Slopes’ “Find Nearby Friends” feature (you should be able to find me here). I have trips planned all over the country between now and May - follow me on Instagram to track where I’m skiing that day. If you find me, I’ll hook you up with some Slopes and Storm stickers, and a premium day pass from Slopes.
Calling all current Indy Pass holders: renew starting today and your 2026-27 Indy Pass will cost this many dollars for two days at each of its 90 billion ski areas:
The Indy Base Pass price is a bit higher than last winter, but still far less than the anticipated cost of any other U.S.-based multimountain ski pass. The no-blackouts Indy+ Pass, which Indy officials are now designating their “flagship product,” actually drops in price from last year, and is now just $50 more than Indy Base – the closest the two products have been since Indy+ launched in 2020.
For the uninitiated, Indy limits pass sales and releases them in waves: existing passholders (including Indy’s Learn To Turn passholders) first, then waitlisters, then, if inventory remains (which so far it always has), the general public (slated to begin March 1, 2026).
For the initiated, Indy is introducing a new trick: check the “auto-renew” box while purchasing, and you lock in the best price for future seasons. You can uncheck the box “at any time,” and will “immediately” be shoved into a digital purgatory and replaced by a mere waitlister.
Indy, which already offers access to more ski areas than the Epic, Ikon, and Mountain Collective passes combined, is adding eight new Alpine partners for the 2026-27 winter:
These Alpine ski areas join 219 existing full Indy Pass partners - for a total of 227. I’ll break the new ski areas down in more detail below. Indy is also adding a bunch of cross-country centers, adding to some indeterminate number of similar ski areas, about which I’ll have nothing more to say. Together with the five remaining Indy Allied discount program partners, these 16 additions help Indy crawl toward its 300-resort guarantee. Should Indy fail to reach this number by Nov. 1 (spoiler: they will reach this number), passholders are eligible for a refund.
Indy typically loses a handful of ski areas from winter to winter, but it’s too early to speculate on which may exit. So let’s just assume, for Fantasy Ski Pass purposes, that this entire 219-mountain roster will return for 2026-27 (Levi, Finland, quietly joined for the 2025-26 winter, but was included in Indy’s announcement today as “new”; I already had it inventoried below):
As lift ticket prices continue to climb, Ikon Pass tilts toward high-end pricing, and Indy’s global network supersizes, Indy Pass’ appeal is becoming more obvious to more skiers. “Our waitlist is bigger than it’s ever been,” Indy Pass Director Erik Mogensen told me in a phone call earlier this week.
Demand is particularly strong, it appears, for an alternative to the North American ski experience. “The number of people going to Europe on their Indy Passes is insane,” Mogensen said.
Let’s take a deeper look at next winter’s Indy Pass offerings, some price comparisons, and a preview of the new U.S. partners. I’ll examine Murray Ridge and the Euro offerings in separate posts.