Utah skier-days slammed by Covid-19

A week or so ago, we learned that the total skier visits to U.S. ski areas was down almost 14% from the previous season, with 51.1 million for 2019–20.

Yesterday, Ski Utah announced a similar 14.3% reduction to its own skier-days to 4,392,698 visits, yet its best 4th season on record, despite a truncated ski season.

Inside the United States, ski areas were only open for an average of 99 days this 2019-20 season, down from 121 days previously, with 93% of its resorts having closed earlier than projected.

All these bad news are not preventing me from trying to estimate how these visitations are distributed among Utah 15 resorts.

That’s right, we used to just have 14 of them, but this year, Westward, the 15th one, just opened its doors in Park City, adding its numbers to the overall total.

Resorts that close very late in the season like Snowbird, Alta, Brighton and Solitude where even more penalized than the rest.

Let’s hope next season will be better and to allow for that, let’s all follow the pandemic best practices!