PassTracks Score breakdown
Five standardized factors produce the editorial score.
BUY THE TIER FOR THE MOUNTAIN YOU’LL ACTUALLY SKI
Start with the five ski days.
Before you buy a color, picture the winter.
Five mornings. Five parking lots. Five places you might actually click into your skis.
Platinum unlocks the biggest map, but the map is not the product. The tickets are.
Start with the mountains already penciled into your winter. Find the highest tier one of them requires. Buy that tier and stop climbing.
Paying extra to unlock a resort you will never reach is just collecting logos.
The network is enormous. Your winter still has five tickets.
Platinum
Five tickets
Eligible at 51 alpine resorts.
One shared five-ticket pool.Gold
Five tickets
Eligible at 44 alpine resorts.
One shared five-ticket pool.Silver
Five tickets
Eligible at 34 alpine resorts.
One shared five-ticket pool.Bronze
Five tickets
Eligible at 8 alpine resorts.
One shared five-ticket pool.This is where the product gets clever.
Keep all five for yourself. Spend several at the same eligible mountain. Split them around a family or move a ticket to a friend.
The flexibility lives in the tickets, not in pretending this is a 52-resort season pass.
You are buying five movable ski days with a very large menu.
That is more interesting.
THE MATH GETS INTERESTING FAST
Use three or four. The other tickets start feeling cheap.
At the later published prices, the benchmark illustrations approach break-even around the fourth full-price ski day; actual savings depend on where and when tickets are used.
Platinum's published C$685 price reaches its approximate benchmark crossover on day four; the fifth ticket is where the package begins to pull away.
That is the attractive part of this pass.
You do not necessarily have to use all five tickets before the math starts working.
But you do have to use them.
At the later published pricing, the effective cost across all five tickets ranges from C$45 at Bronze to C$137 at Platinum. Actual savings depend on the resort, date, selected tier and applicable restrictions.
UP TO 40% OFF REGULAR LIFT-TICKET PRICING
Operator claim
Savings use the operator’s approximate five-ticket window benchmarks; unused tickets erase the theoretical value.
PLATINUM
C$137 / ticket
C$685 pass vs. ~C$970 total / ~C$194 per day. About 3.5 benchmark days; practical crossover: day 4.
GOLD
C$91 / ticket
C$455 pass vs. ~C$675 total / ~C$135 per day. About 3.4 benchmark days; practical crossover: day 4.
SILVER
C$68 / ticket
C$340 pass vs. ~C$495 total / ~C$99 per day. About 3.4 benchmark days; practical crossover: day 4.
BRONZE
C$45 / ticket
C$225 pass vs. ~C$350 total / ~C$70 per day. About 3.2 benchmark days; practical crossover: day 4.
The fifth ticket is only a bargain if it leaves your account.
Fifty-two resort names look wonderfully close together when they are compressed into one map.
Canada does not cooperate.
A mountain in British Columbia and one in Québec may share a pass category and almost nothing else about the winter required to reach them.
That is why the useful network is not the full roster.
It is the handful of eligible mountains that live inside the drives and trips you actually make.
Five tickets already force choices.
Geography makes them for you faster.
The best mountain on the pass is still the one you will actually reach.THE RACE-PARENT PASS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Your kid’s race calendar already picked the mountains.
Ski-race parents know this winter.
One weekend you are loading the car before sunrise. The next weekend you are doing it again for a completely different mountain.
The racer already has a bib and a lift ticket.
You are standing at another ticket window.
That is where Canadian Lift Pass gets interesting.
If the race calendar lands at participating mountains inside your tier, one of these five tickets can become the parent lift ticket you were going to buy anyway.
The next race can use another.
And because the tickets are shareable, the pack can move between parents, siblings or friends instead of belonging to one skier all winter.
It will not follow every race schedule. Reservations, tier eligibility and resort restrictions still matter.
But for a family spending winter chasing race starts across different mountains, this may be one of the most practical ways to use the pass.
The kid is racing. You might as well ski.
Buy if
- You can already name five Canadian ski days
- Ski-race parents following a child to participating mountains who would otherwise buy adult lift tickets throughout the season.
- Shareability matters to your family or group
Pause if
- The five days are still theoretical
- Pre-booking does not fit your winter
- You need season-long included access
What works
- Up to 40% off regular lift-ticket pricing can make the math work before all five tickets are used.
- Five days is a much smaller commitment than another season pass.
- Tickets can move among family and friends.
- Higher categories unlock their own mountains plus qualifying lower categories.
- National geography creates real choice when your winter already moves around.
What to watch
- You still bought five tickets.
- Every visit must be pre-booked.
- A missed booked day can expire as though it were used.
- Tickets do not roll into the following winter.
- Participating mountains and restrictions can change.
- Official documentation still contains stale six-category material.
Complete access
Complete pass access
Core access and structured benefits are listed separately.
52 physical resorts
Core access52
- Apex Mountain ResortBC · Gold · Alpine
- Baldy Mountain ResortBC · Silver · Alpine
- Big White Ski ResortBC · Platinum · Alpine
- Blue Mountain ResortON · Gold · Alpine
- Boler MountainON · Silver · Alpine
- Bromont, montagne d'expériencesQC · Gold · Alpine
- Calabogie Peaks ResortON · Silver · Alpine
- Cape SmokeyNS · Gold · Alpine
- Centre de Ski Le RelaisQC · Silver · Alpine
- Crabbe MountainNB · Silver · Alpine
- Duck Mountain Ski AreaSK · Bronze · Alpine
- Eastlink ParkAB · Bronze · Alpine
- Edmonton Ski ClubAB · Bronze · Alpine
- Fairmont Hot Springs ResortBC · Silver · Alpine
- Hardwood Ski & BikeON · Silver · Cross-country
- Hidden Valley Highlands Ski AreaON · Silver · Alpine
- Hockley Valley ResortON · Silver · Alpine
- Horseshoe ResortON · Silver · Alpine
- Hudson Bay Mountain ResortBC · Silver · Alpine
- Kinosoo Ridge ResortAB · Bronze · Alpine
- Le Petit ChamonixQC · Bronze · Alpine
- Loch Lomond Ski AreaON · Silver · Alpine
- MMC-Shames MountainBC · Silver · Alpine
- Manning & District Ski ClubAB · Bronze · Alpine
- Manning Park ResortBC · Silver · Alpine
- Marble Mountain Ski ResortNL · Silver · Alpine
- Marmot BasinAB · Platinum · Alpine
- Mont RigaudQC · Silver · Alpine
- Mont SuttonQC · Gold · Alpine
- Mont-TremblantQC · Platinum · Alpine
- Mount St Louis Moonstone Ski ResortON · Gold · Alpine
- Mount Washington Alpine ResortBC · Gold · Alpine
- Mt Norquay Ski ResortAB · Gold · Alpine
- Mt Seymour ResortBC · Gold · Alpine
- Optimist HillSK · Bronze · Alpine
- Panorama Mountain ResortBC · Platinum · Alpine
- Parc du Mont Saint-MathieuQC · Silver · Alpine
- Parc du Mont-ComiQC · Silver · Alpine
- Rabbit Hill Snow ResortAB · Silver · Alpine
- Red Mountain ResortBC · Platinum · Alpine
- Revelstoke Mountain ResortBC · Platinum · Alpine
- Sasquatch Mountain ResortBC · Gold · Alpine
- Searchmont ResortON · Silver · Alpine
- Sir Sam's Ski and RideON · Silver · Alpine
- Ski Ben EoinNS · Silver · Alpine
- Ski Massif du SudQC · Silver · Alpine
- Ski WentworthNS · Silver · Alpine
- Snow Valley Resort (Ontario)ON · Silver · Alpine
- Snow Valley Ski Club (Alberta)AB · Silver · Alpine
- Sun Peaks ResortBC · Platinum · Alpine
- Tawatinaw Valley Ski AreaAB · Bronze · Alpine
- WinSportAB · Silver · Alpine
Later published 2026 pricing
Current products
Published later-tier prices shown; verify checkout before purchase. August prices remain in the dated history below. Each product contains five total shareable tickets.
Platinum
C$685August C$595 · September C$685 · five total tickets
Gold
C$455August C$395 · September C$455 · five total tickets
Silver
C$340August C$295 · September C$340 · five total tickets
Bronze
C$225August C$195 · September C$225 · five total tickets
THE PRICE MOVES BEFORE THE SNOW DOES
2026/27 price schedule
| Tier | August price · expired | Later published price |
|---|---|---|
| Platinum | C$595 | C$685 |
| Gold | C$395 | C$455 |
| Silver | C$295 | C$340 |
| Bronze | C$195 | C$225 |
A large national roster makes the product feel expansive. The inventory is still five tickets, and the useful decision is whether those five tickets already have mountains, people and dates attached to them.
Five well-chosen ski days can save real money. Five theoretical ski days are prepaid regret.