Aspen Snowmass Just Put $80 Lift Tickets on Sale for Its 80th Birthday
Dec. 12-13 lift tickets are $80 across all four Aspen Snowmass mountains (62% off $209). The $3.75 throwback Dec. 14 allotment sold out in under a day.
Aspen Mountain and the rest of the Aspen Snowmass quartet are marking 80 years with a rare early-season price cut: lift tickets on December 12 and 13 are listed at $80, down from $209. That is a 62% discount across all four mountains, and it lands beside Wintersköl weekend programming that already draws destination skiers into the Roaring Fork Valley before peak holiday rates hit.
The nostalgia stunt moved even faster. Aspen Skiing Company also sold December 14 tickets at $3.75, matching the 1946 opening price on Aspen Mountain. Those sold out in less than a day after the deal spread on Reddit. The resort's own note was blunt: 1946 pricing moves fast. December 12 and 13 remain the live window for anyone who missed the throwback allotment.
What $80 actually buys that weekend
Tickets at that rate cover the four-mountain product: Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk, and Snowmass. Rentals on those two days are also priced at $80, and food and drink specials are listed at $19.46. Lodging promotions are live at Limelight Snowmass, Limelight Aspen, and The Little Nell for guests who want the weekend packaged rather than pieced together.
Wintersköl runs December 10-13 as Aspen's long-running toast to winter (torchlight descents on Aspen Mountain, live music in Wanger Park, SoupSköl, bonfires, fireworks, and snow sculptures). Pairing discounted tickets with that festival calendar is the real planning hook: early December coverage is still building, but the social calendar is already dense, and $80 is a softer entry than holiday rack rates for sampling Ajax steeps or Snowmass acreage in the same trip.
Why the anniversary pricing matters
Aspen Mountain opened December 14, 1946, with the world's longest chairlift at the time and daily tickets starting at $3.75. The company lineage runs through Aspen Skiing Company today, with the Silver Queen Gondola (1986) still defining the Ajax commute and Snowmass holding the bulk of the acreage. Across the four mountains the complex markets more than 5,700 skiable acres and 40-plus lifts. Anniversary discounts do not change that footprint, but they do change who can sample it before Christmas blackout economics take over.
Skiers chasing the $80 days should buy soon. Anniversary inventory can sell out the same way the $3.75 day did. Soft close: compare mountain personalities on the Aspen Mountain and Snowmass pages before you lock lodging, and remember December 14 is already gone.