On Monday, June 4, 2018 Vail Resorts announced that they will acquire four more resort areas including Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont, Mount Sunapee Resort in New Hampshire, and Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado, and Stevens Pass Resort in Washington.
Vail Resorts will acquire Triple Peaks LLC, which is the parent company of Sunapee, Okemo, and Crested Butte in one transaction and they will acquire Stevens Pass in a separate transaction. They plan to invest $35 million in the four resorts in the next 4 years.
Now Vail Resorts’ 18-19 Epic Pass, that only costs $899, will include access to the following resorts:
- Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Crested Butte Mountain Resort and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado
- Park City in Utah
- Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood at Lake Tahoe, California
- Stowe Mountain Resort and Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont
- Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire
- Afton Alps in Minnesota
- Mt. Brighton in Michigan
- Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin
- Stevens Pass in Washington
- Whistler Blackcomb in Canada
- Perisher in Australia for the 2019 season
- **New for the 2018-19 season, Epic Pass holders will receive seven days of skiing or snowboarding with no blackout dates at Telluride in Colorado; seven days at Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, which includes Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Kimberley Alpine Resort in British Columbia, Nakiska in Alberta, and Mont Sainte Anne and Stoneham in Quebec; and up to five total consecutive days with no blackout dates at Hakuba Valley’s nine ski resorts in Japan. The Epic Pass also grants limited access to Les 3 Vallées, Paradiski and Tignes-Val D’Isere in France; 4 Vallées in Switzerland; Arlberg in Austria and Skirama Dolomiti in Italy.
