With five Colorado ski areas having entered the final week of their 2024-25 seasons, two are going out with fabulous lift ticket deals.
Ski Cooper is offering $35 lift tickets — the price they charged for children ages 6-14 this season — while Monarch is charging $39. Both close on Sunday.
For comparison, Eldora is offering lift tickets in advance online for $99 through closing day on April 20. Copper Mountain will offer $99 lift tickets from April 14 through closing day on May 11.
The other ski areas closing for the season on Sunday are Aspen Highlands, Beaver Creek and Silverton. After Sunday, Purgatory will be open weekends-only through April 27
Buttermilk, Crested Butte, Keystone, Powderhorn, Sunlight, Telluride and Wolf Creek closed last Sunday.
Cooper, which is located 10 miles north of Leadville on Tennessee Pass, has 100% of its terrain open with a mid-mountain base depth of 57 inches. Monarch, 140 miles from Denver at Monarch Pass, has a 64-inch mid-mountain base with 100% of its beginner, intermediate and expert terrain open. Its double-black slopes are 88% open.
Temperatures at Cooper will be in the 30s Tuesday and Wednesday, then in the 40s through Sunday, according to the OpenSnow reporting and forecasting service. Monarch will mostly be in the 40s with a high temperature of 50 forecast for Saturday.
Areas scheduled to close April 20 include Aspen Mountain, Eldora, Snowmass, Steamboat, and Vail. The Winter Park base will close on April 27, but its Mary Jane complex will remain open as long as conditions permit. Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Loveland and Arapahoe Basin also will remain open into May.
