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Valle d’Aosta, Italy Joins Ikon Pass for 2025-26 Winter

Valle d’Aosta, Italy Joins Ikon Pass for 2025-26 Winter

Passholders will have seven or five combined days at Courmayeur, Pila, Cervinia, La Thuile, and Monterosa

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Aug 26, 2025
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Valle d’Aosta, Italy Joins Ikon Pass for 2025-26 Winter
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Ikon Pass adds new European ski resort that is actually somewhere between five and 10 ski resorts. No one is really sure how many because Pierre owns the tram and Juan-Carlos owns the other tram and the town runs the T-bars and Tren Italia for some reason built a train switchbacking up to midmountain. Skiers don’t really need the Ikon Pass to access these mountains because lift tickets were pegged to the price of a liter of wine by the VinoSki Compact of 1976 and therefore never exceed nine euros. If you find a goat it belongs to Giuseppe and he knows they’re only supposed to graze there from May 1 to Sept. 30 but you know goats they’re always up to mischief.

Anway the ski resort that is actually a bunch of ski resorts that Ikon is adding for the 2025-26 winter is Valle d’Aosta in Italy. This includes at least five ski areas though perhaps there are more ski areas tucked in there somewhere: Courmayeur Mont Blanc, Pila, Cervino Ski Paradise, La Thuile Espace San Bernardo, and Monterosa Ski. The collection will join as a standard EuroPartner: seven days with full Ikon, five with Ikon Base, no blackouts on either. No access on Ikon Session. The five ski areas offer a combined 247 trails served by 147 lifts.

Valle d’Aosta is Ikon’s second destination in Italy, joining Dolomiti Superski and its dozen-ish ski areas. Passholders can now access eight destinations across Europe and more than a dozen outside of North America. Here’s Ikon’s 2025-26 roster, which returns every partner from previous seasons save Windham, New York:

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Below the paid subscriber jump: a more detailed look at each of Valle d’Aosta’s ski areas, why this is a big deal for Zermatt, a big potential conflict with Indy Pass, and more. Thank you for your support of independent ski journalism.

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