​ Vail Resorts is a leading global mountain resort operator, with its subsidiaries offering 11 mountain resorts and three urban ski areas.

These include :

• Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado
• Park City in Utah
• Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada
• Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, Canada
• Perisher in Australia
• Stowe in Vermont
• Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin
• Afton Alps in Minnesota, and
• Mt. Brighton in Michigan.

Vail Resorts

Vail Resorts owns and/or manages a collection of casually elegant hotels under the RockResorts brand, as well as the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

Vail ResortsEpic Pass, available for $949, offers skiers and snowboarders unlimited, unrestricted access to its North American resorts, plus additional access to 46 more in Australia, Japan, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Austria.

Les 3 Vallées

The latest to join the Epic Pass initiative is Les 3 Vallées, the world's largest connected ski area, located in the Tarentaise Valley, in the heart of the French Alps.

As implied by its name, the area consists of three valleys: Saint Bon, Les Allues and Les Belleville.

The ski area is the resorts of Courchevel, Méribel, Brides-les-Bains, Les Menuires, Saint Martin de Belleville, Val Thorens and Orelle.

Useful links

www.vailresorts.com