For all it's uncertainty, you cannot escape your future! Nor can you escape the high costs of daily ski tickets. You should be considering your future options because the 2025/26 Ski Season may be much brighter (and much less expensive)! Some folks who criss cross the country buy the Ikon, MCP, Epic and Indy but we don’t think you have to be an over-achiever -- and we’d like to discuss a different approach called “The Indy”.
With over 230 new partner resorts, the Indy Pass won't just change where you ride - it'll likely shift your snow-sport experience entirely. Sunlight Mountain Resort is on the Indy Pass and has reciprocal partnerships with many additional Colorado mountains: Loveland, Monarch, Ski Cooper, Sunlight and Powderhorn.
The Indy Pass will be on sale ~ early July 2025 and probably won't last long. With limited-time sale each year, these passes fly off the shelves, leaving latecomers wishing they’d acted sooner. Wait Listers have a few days to use their code (sent via text) before sales open for the general public. People with a season pass from an Indy resort that qualifies for an Add-on price can get a 25% discount!
One pass at any of these mountains gets you three days at all the others, in additional to any other reciprocal partners or additional perks they may have - ie. Sunlight is on Indy so a Sunlight season pass gets you all the reciprocal partners and you can add an Indy for $189 and it’s also a Freedom Pass member, so you get all those reciprocals.
Loveland is another great example, $499 gets you a season pass to a great mountain close to Denver/Boulder, Powder Alliance membership, and amazing reciprocals with the previously mentioned CO partners plus awesome additional partners like Whitefish, Schweitzer, Red Lodge, and Brundage up north — plus 3 days each at most of the Power Pass partners.
THIS IS AN INSANELY AMOUNT OF ACCESS FOR THE PRICE!
Ski Cooper has a pass for $299 and over 30 reciprocal partners all over the country. I could write a novel about these partnerships but it’s awesome value that’s not really well known and probably won’t be available forever.
If I were based in Colorado, I’d get the Indy Pass and bounce around to all the Indys in the state, make a mid-season run to the San Juans/NM/AZ and make a run up to Montana and swing back through Idaho for an end of the season trip.
For $500, that’s an “insanely awesome” season of skiing the Independents and dodging the epic and iconic lift lines.
Bookmark the Indy Pass site, visit the hot springs AND Book Your Lodging Stay at Aspenwood House, just a short 20 min. drive to Sunlight Mountain Resort!