14th Might 2025
Preliminary information from the Nationwide Ski Areas Affiliation (NSAA) signifies that the 2024-25 season noticed the second-highest visitation on file at US ski areas. NEW
A complete of 61.5 million skier visits represents a 1.7% enhance over the earlier season.
The very best quantity was within the 2022-23 season which noticed 3.9 million extra visits.
A skier go to is counted every time a person makes use of a carry ticket or go at a ski space.
The present whole remains to be preliminary as a number of ski areas have prolonged their seasons.
We’ve reported on the prolonged season right here on PlanetSKI:
Palisades Tahoe, California. Picture © PlanetSKI
NSSA divides the nation into six areas:
Rocky MountainPacific SouthwestPacific Northwest regionsThe SoutheastMidwest RegionsThe Northeast
The Pacific Northwest recorded its finest season on file, with 4.7 million skier visits—a ten.9% enhance over the earlier yr.
The Midwest additionally skilled a robust rebound, with a 21.8% enhance in skier visits after a 26.7% decline the prior season on account of unseasonably heat climate.
The Rocky Mountain area, which accounted for 42.9% of all nationwide visits in 2024-25, additionally had a robust shoring, rating third out of 47 seasons on file.
Snowboarding within the USA. Picture © PlanetSKI
NSAA President and CEO Michael Reitzell mentioned the group set a objective a number of years in the past to achieve a three-year rolling common of 60 million skier visits.
That benchmark he mentioned has now been surpassed.
“Whereas climate will at all times be unpredictable,” he mentioned, “this yr was much less unstable total, and practically each area noticed strong snowfall.”
Elements contributing to this season’s development embody:
Elevated visits at small and medium sized ski areasA record-setting yr within the Pacific NorthwestA rebound within the Midwest following a dip final seasonContinued development in season passes and frequency-based productsThe variety of working ski areas additionally rose from 484 final season to 492 this season
The 2024-25 season he provides could come to signify a brand new baseline for the trade.
Even when “regular” continues to evolve, Michael Reitzell mentioned this season offers a robust level of reference for what regular, wholesome development seems like.
A remaining quantity might be launched as soon as remaining numbers are compiled. NSAA has tracked skier visits because the 1978-79 season.
Common snowfall at ski areas nationally totaled 150”, which was a slight 6.9% lower year-over-year, and fewer than the 10-year common of 175”.
Regionally, snow was beneath the 10-yr common within the Rocky Mountain, Pacific Southwest, and Pacific Northwest areas.
The Southeast and Midwest Areas have been barely above common, and proper on common within the Northeast.
$624.4m was spend on capital funding by US ski areas through the 2024-25 season.
As in earlier years, the very best proportion of capital expenditures was directed towards carry infrastructure, with 97 new and upgraded lifts put in at ski areas nationwide.
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