A single day, walk-up lift ticket during the holiday season at Vail and Beaver Creek are now an astonishing $159. Aspen Skiing Co., a top competitor of Vail Resorts, has raised its price to $129 for a daily pass.
| Regular Rate | Holiday Rate | |
| Vail Resorts | $145 | $159 |
| Aspen Snowmass | $124 | $129 |
| Deer Valley, UT | $114 | $120 |
| Whistler Blackcomb, BC | $109 | $119 |
According to analysis by Aspen Daily News, pricing on single-day walkup tickets have gone up 65% since 2005:
“It has gone up incrementally since: in the 2007-08 season, the single-day, walk-up ticket price was $87; in the 2008-09 season it was $96 and in March of 2011, SkiCo broke the $100 mark when it charged $104. It went up to $108 in December of 2011, according to Daily News archive articles. Vail was more expensive than Aspen in every instance except in 2005 when the single-day, walk-up price was $77.” – Aspen Daily News