Killington Offers $199 Spring Pass to Small Ski Area Season Passholders
Plus: incredible spring pass rates in New England, a buddy pass revolution, it's a good time to be young and broke, and good news for Ragged passholders
Dear God I said I was done with roundups but there’s so much happening and I can’t write a full story on everything, so here’s a sampling of developments in 2026-27 Ski Season Pass Land:
Spring Passes
Killington has long offered one of America’s best spring passes: $379 for unlimited skiing from March 13 through the end of The Beast’s very long season. While this is a bit higher than most spring passes, Killington runs one of the longest seasons in American skiing, typically spining lifts daily into early May and then three days per week through early June. That’s 60 or more potential ski days.
Killy has long discounted the spring pass for midweek and Pico season passholders, and last year, the mountain extended the offer to Ikon Pass holders (including Base and Session). This year, unlimited 2025-26 season passholders at a dozen independent ski areas in Killington’s New York-New England orbit are also eligible for the $199 spring pass:
Killington is calling it their “Season Extender Program,” and it’s designed to arm small ski areas that typically wrap operations in mid- to late-March with a big incentive to purchase a season pass.
“We really want to support all of those mountains as much as we can,” Killington Managing Partner Phill Gross told me in a phone call earlier this week. “Honestly, these ski areas are not competitors. They’re a feeder system to bring high-quality skiers that want the best experience they can have. They’ll get it at those mountains and eventually they’ll be up at Killington for a day or two or a week or two.”
Gross is open to expanding the roster to additional independent ski areas in Killington’s orbit (I can connect you), and intends to continue the program at least to 2027 so that partner mountains can promote the spring pass as a 2026-27 season pass benefit.
“We want them to sell more season passes because of this,” Gross said. “We want to be Macy’s Santa Claus in terms of what Killington can do to help other mountains in the area and help more people get to the mountain and ski.”
This hitch-your-wagon-to-our-freight-train offer complements numerous Gross-led programs designed to reinforce skiing’s foundations, including the Winter 4 Kids center in New Jersey, Share Winter, the Killington World Cup Foundation, and programs that ensure Killington ski access for local kids. This year, the mountain is offering a total of $200,000 in grants “specifically for capital projects at independent New England ski mountains,” Gross said. The money, he said, came from the auctioning off of retro Skyship Gondola cabins last summer. Interested ski areas can apply here by March 25, 2026: