These tips are essential to making the most of your Alta experience, from a local’s perspective. It boasts an average seasonal snowfall of 548 inches—more than nearly every ski resort in the ...

In the winter, Alta Ski Area, Utah, is, perhaps above anything else, known for its snow. The ski resort stacks up powder like almost no one else, averaging about 550 inches each season. During one ...

As we sit on the doorstep of spring’s equinox, a storm dispatch from Alta Ski Area indicates winter’s fury is not prepared to surrender its stronghold in the refuge of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. Around ...

Alta's reasoning is simple: Quads cost too much, and faster lifts put more bodies on the slopes, crowding the trails and degrading the snow surface. Alta has always valued the quality of the ...

Gone is the ’70s rec-room vibe many associate with Alta’s lodges—the new Snowpine Lodge wouldn’t feel out of place at the base of any upscale ski resort. Which is why, late last season, lift-line talk ...

SALT LAKE CITY — I came here to get high on Alta powder. That’s supposed to be a pun, since alta means tall in Spanish, and, indeed, the legendary steep and deep Utah ski area owns the second-highest ...

In Alta, skiers think nothing of climbing above the lift stations to reach deep stashes of fresh powder. So when the mountain's amiable general manager, Onno Wierenga, invited me to join him for fresh ...