PassTracks Score breakdown
Current score is based on confirmed 2026/27 terms. Applications opened September 23, 2026; confirm current availability, taxes and any $5 RFID-card requirement with Ski NH.
The $59 Passport is not an unlimited pass. It gives the named eligible child one lift ticket at each of 20 Alpine areas, plus one trail-pass benefit at 12 cross-country centers. That still makes the core math unusually favorable when a family can use the specific mountains it already wants to ski.
Two useful Alpine days put the base cost at $29.50 per child day; three put it at $19.67 and five at $11.80. The 20-area maximum would be $2.95 per Alpine day, but that is a theoretical ceiling—not the value case. The Passport earns its score when a few family days become real, not when every pin on a statewide map gets visited.
The 12 XC offers add winter value, but PassTracks does not count them as Alpine access.
Ski NH's Alpine roster reaches from southern hills and the Lakes Region to Dartmouth/Sunapee, the White Mountains and the north country. That is real geographic range for a New Hampshire or nearby New England family, especially when weather, school schedules and weekend plans make one home mountain feel too narrow.
It is not repeat access. One Passport use at an area is one child lift ticket there, for the named child only. A family that returns every weekend to one favorite mountain needs a different plan; a family willing to make a handful of varied day trips has the stronger fit.
Geography helps only after the drive and calendar make a mountain plausible.THE RULES MATTER
Holiday blackouts are real, and special steps are not all the same.
The published statewide blackout dates are December 27, 2026 through January 2, 2027; January 16–18, 2027; February 13–15, 2027; and February 20, 2027. Great Glen Trails is the stated XC exception with no blackout-date restrictions. The Passport also cannot be transferred or combined with another discount, promotion or package.
Pats Peak requires a Passport reservation on weekends and other busy times, and the Passport cannot be used for Saturday-night Pay-One-Price. Bretton Woods, Gunstock and Loon support advance booking through the future-date/PDF-voucher workflow, but Ski NH does not say every Passport visit there requires a reservation. Ski NH also says some unspecified areas may require a $5 RFID card; it does not identify those areas, so PassTracks does not treat $64 as a universal all-in price.
Check the app and the participating area's current instructions before leaving home.
Buy if
- You have a current fourth- or fifth-grader and can identify at least two or three realistic Alpine days.
- You value a statewide family sampler more than unlimited repeat days at one mountain.
- You can work around the published holiday blackouts and area-level redemption steps.
Pause if
- You need unlimited skiing or multiple Passport days at the same home mountain.
- Most of your family skiing falls inside the published blackout periods.
- You need a live-sale date, capacity or final checkout total before you can commit.
What works
- $59 for one eligible child is strong value before a family tries to chase the whole map: two usable Alpine visits are $29.50 each and three are $19.67 each.
- Twenty current Alpine areas make this a genuinely statewide New Hampshire family network, while the 12 XC trail-pass benefits remain visible as extra household value.
What to watch
- Each Alpine area is one named-child ticket, not a repeat-use home-mountain benefit. Statewide blackouts and ordinary area rules still apply.
- Sales are not open yet. Ski NH expects late September or early October, but has not published an exact date, capacity, deadline, tax treatment or which areas may require a $5 RFID card.
Complete access
Complete pass access
Core access and structured benefits are listed separately.
32 physical resorts
Core access20
- Abenaki Ski AreaNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Attitash MountainNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Bretton WoodsNH · 1 child lift ticket
- CannonNH · 1 child lift ticket
- CranmoreNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Crotched MountainNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Dartmouth SkiwayNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Granite Gorge Mountain ParkNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Gunstock Mountain ResortNH · 1 child lift ticket
- King PineNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Loon Mountain ResortNH · 1 child lift ticket
- McIntyre Ski AreaNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Mount SunapeeNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Pats PeakNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Ragged Mountain ResortNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Tenney MountainNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Waterville Valley ResortNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Whaleback MountainNH · 1 child lift ticket
- Wildcat MountainNH · 1 child lift ticket
- The Vets – Veteran’s Memorial ParkNH · 1 child lift ticket
Reciprocal and other benefits12
- Bear Notch Ski Touring CenterNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Bretton Woods Nordic CenterNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Eastman Cross CountryNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Franconia Village XC Ski AreaNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Great Glen Trails Outdoor CenterNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Gunstock Outdoor CenterNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Jackson XCNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Mt. Washington Valley Ski Touring & Snowshoe CenterNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Nordic Skier Wolfeboro XCNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Oak Hill Outdoor CenterNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Purity Spring XC & Snowshoe ReserveNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
- Waterville Valley Adventure CenterNH · 1 child trail pass · XC only
2026/27 confirmed $59 price; applications opened September 23
Current products
The $59 Passport price and access rules are confirmed. Applications opened September 23, 2026; confirm current availability, tax treatment and any $5 RFID-card requirement with Ski NH.
Ski NH 4th & 5th Grade Passport
$59One Passport for one eligible child.
The Passport is at its best when a child gets a few different New Hampshire ski days that the family already wants to make happen. It does not ask a family to turn every weekend into a road trip; it asks them to notice how much more useful a second or third mountain can make the winter.
Buy the Passport for the days that fit. Treat the rest of the map as upside.