Bousquet, Lost Valley joining Indy Pass for 2024-25

Bousquet Mountain in Pittsfield, Mass., joined Indy Pass for the 2024-25 season. (Indy Pass)

When Indy Pass managing director Erik Mogensen spoke earlier this month to announce the purchase of Black Mountain with the intention of creating a co-op, he also said that Indy Pass would have 230 resorts included.

At an announcement party Wednesday night in New York, Indy Pass revealed which ski areas would be joining the pass. Thirty more resorts were added to the pass, bringing the total new members for the 2024-25 season to 52. A limited number of passes are on sale again.

“Indy Pass now has over 230 resorts on three continents, and you can expect our remarkable growth to continue,” Mogensen said in a release. “Our mission and values command our support of independent ski areas and will continue to drive every decision we make, including not overselling the pass.”

Bousquet Mountain in Pittsfield, Mass., has bumped up from an allied resort to a full partner, and Lost Valley in Auburn, Maine, comes aboard.

In 1936, Bousquet became the first ski area in the country to offer night skiing. It has 750 vertical feet with 23 trails and four lifts (a triple, a double and two surface) over 200 acres with 90 percent snowmaking. It was where four Olympians learned to ski, including three members of the team competing at the 1994 Albertville, France, Olympics.

“The combination of ski areas out here in the Berkshires that are all on the Indy Pass collectively make for a good opportunity for guests to come out to the Berkshires, ski around a little bit, and try a couple different areas over a vacation period or a long weekend,” Bousquet operations manager Dave Kulis said. “It just made good sense. We’re more of a regional area serving the communities around Pittsfield, but we also know that the Indy Pass has a very strong foothold in the Boston market, and the Berkshires are a relatively easy drive from there.”

Bousquet already partnered with Berkshire East in Charlemont and Catamount in South Egremont on the Unlimited Summit Pass. Bousquet joins both of those mountains on Indy.

Lost Valley has a vertical drop of 243 feet and is adding a double chair and making snowmaking upgrades for this season.

The big addition to the pass was Loveland Ski Area in Georgetown, Colo., at the eastern end of the Interstate 70 Eisenhower Tunnel. Located along the Continental Divide, Loveland has 94 trails and bowls over 1,900 skiable acres with 11 lifts (and snowcat rides along the ridge included in the cost of the lift ticket) with 2,210 vertical feet.

Other additions include Massif du Sud near Quebec City, a cluster of resorts around Innsbruck, Austria, Baqueria Beret in the Spanish Pyrenees and 11 resorts in Japan. Indy Pass also added alpine and nordic spots stateside in California, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

People already on the waitlist will have the opportunity to buy an Indy Pass during an exclusive window stretching from Thursday through Sunday as supplies last. If there are passes remaining, the general public will have an opportunity to purchase beginning on Monday.

The Indy Base Pass, which has blackout dates at some resorts, will be $419 for adults and $239 for juniors 12 and under. The Indy+ Pass with no blackout dates will be $539/$299.

Passholders receive two days at each ski area and a third day at 25 percent discount off the window rate.

Earlier this year it was announced that Big Moose Mountain, Camden Snow Bowl, Middlebury Snowbowl, Mount Abrham and Ragged Mountain would be added to the pass for the 2024-25 season.