15 new resorts: Indy Pass adds Norway, Austria and discounts at Whiteface

Gore Mountain, New York, seen from the Uncas trail in March 2007. Photo: Ian Taylor via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

The Indy Pass has added 15 partners for the 2026-27 season: 10 alpine ski areas and 5 cross-country centres in the United States, Canada, Norway and Austria. The pass announced the list on Thursday 12 November 2026. Three big state-owned mountains in New York, Whiteface, Gore and Belleayre, join as "Allied" partners with discounted lift tickets, not free days. From Friday 13 November, people on the waitlist can buy a pass again.

• 15 new partners for 2026-27: 10 alpine areas and 5 cross-country centres.
• Four Norwegian resorts (Beito, Hafjell, Kvitfjell, Oppdal) and Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria join the European list.
• Whiteface, Gore and Belleayre in New York join the Allied Program: discounted tickets, no included days.
• The new capacity opens a limited pass sale to waitlist members from Friday 13 November.
• A full partner gives two days of skiing per season plus a third day at a discount.

The Indy Pass release on Business Wire lists these additions:

Two of the alpine names need a note. Cherry Peak was already an Allied partner and now becomes a full partner, says the Indy page of the resort. And Stoke Mountain is an indoor training centre near Seattle, not a ski area on a mountain, Stuart Winchester points out in The Storm Skiing Journal. So for most skiers the list has eight new outdoor alpine areas.

The biggest names in the release are the three ski areas of the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA), owned by New York State. They do not become full partners. As Allied partners they give Indy holders discounted lift tickets, up to two per resort per season, but no included days.

"Adding Belleayre, Gore, and Whiteface is a huge win for our passholders," said Erik Mogensen, director of the Indy Pass, in the release. "This puts Indy Pass in a whole new category for East Coast families."

The size of the discount is not clear. The Indy website gives 25 % off the daily window rate. The ski site PeakRankings reports a split: 25 % on weekends and holidays from 23 December to 10 March, and 50 % on all other days. PeakRankings adds that the discount starts from the window rate, so pass holders "likely save less than you might think" against the lower prices the resorts sell online. Indy holders do get two included days at each of the two ORDA cross-country centres, Mt Van Hoevenberg and the Gore Mountain Nordic Center.

Indy limits the number of passes it sells each season, to keep its partner areas uncrowded. The new partners add capacity, so the pass reopens sales to its waitlist from Friday 13 November, earliest sign-ups first, by email. The Indy shop listed these adult prices on 13 November 2026:

The release says that Indy pays 85 % of its pass revenue back to the partner resorts. A full partner gives two days of skiing per season, plus a third day at a discount. Indy also says it will announce its Learn to Turn pass for 2026-27 and more partners in the week after the release.

The new list covers very different snow. Hafjell and Kvitfjell in Norway are both near Lillehammer; Cherry Peak in Utah gives an average snowfall of 320 inches (about 8 m) a year on its Indy page. In the American Northeast, where Whiteface and Gore are, the snow is often hard and icy. On that snow a stiff ski of 80–89 mm holds the edge better than a soft, wide ski.

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