This is a list of new lifts likely to be built in the United States and Canada during the 2025 construction season. Last updated 4/20/2024. Have an addition or correction? Comment below or email Peter@liftblog.com.
Blue = Doppelmayr
Yellow = Leitner-Poma
Green = Skytrac
Red = MND
Purple = Partek
Orange = SkyTrans
Gray = Re-installations (used lifts)
White = To be announced
ATW = Aerial Tramway
CL = Chairlift
G = Gondola
SL = Surface lift
D = Detachable
F = Fixed grip
M = Monocable
P = Pulse
J = Jigback
B = Bubble
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Deer Valley has a lot planned! 9 lifts! Plus Big Sky having another gondola! Big year already!
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I think it’s the opening of Mayflower Mountain which is why there are so many lifts. I ski a lot in Utah so I’m extremely exited. Also gondola will be a huge addition to Big Sky’s lift network.
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Peter I was wondering where you got all the names for the Deer Valley lifts? I know I’ve seen some maps and renderings that show some of those names, but for example I haven’t seen anything that shows the Village Express or especially the Park Peak Express with a mid station? I’m trying to figure out which lift that one is. My guess is it’s the one that crosses the 2nd stage of the gondola?
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Just a guess, but as you saw in the post he was at the meeting and Deer Valley probably announced the names and he was taking notes.
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They are on the master plan for Deer Valley I’m fairly sure.
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Would the phased replacement of Mt. Bohemia’s triple chair count as a 2025 lift? it’s being done in three stages over three years but will be finished in 2025
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Is Garbanzo Express as a 6pack formally announced yet for 2025?
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No. Is that going to be in Vail’s next earnings announcement?
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I wouldn’t put money on it.
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Is anything expected in 2025, or will WB get a year off?
What’s the most likely next move now, after Jersey is done? VG? 7th?
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My best guess is 2025 will be a planning year for the VG. Sounds like it is next on the list. That may change though.
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Kaden – Jersey Crème is being replaced this year, but 7th Heaven and WVG are TBA.
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Garbo upgrade will be key once the Fitz 8 is open so I really hope something will happen soon.
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At Whistler, Right? I also thought they were replacing Jersey Cream w/ a 6-pack
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That could be so cool. I wonder if they would make it d line. Probably the expensivest gondola ever. Lol. But It would be great for whistlers uphill capacity
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Probably basically a carbon copy of the Blackcomb Gondola with 4000 pph would be my guess. It’ll definitely be a huge project to get in before the season starts.
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I got confirmation today that Looking Glass at winter park would be removed in the 2024/2025 ski season and a replacement lift for challenger would be 2025/2026 ski season.
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Interesting shift from the master plan which called for upgrading Pony Express and Iron Horse to one HSS with mid angle station. That will definitely change the Jane side. Regarding Looking Glass, a bit surprised about removing with no replacement without upgrading Olympia but the new Pioneer HSS might absorb the extra people to offset that. Both are old lifts that are used almost every day of the regular season so that might be part of the reasoning.
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Because I doubt they’d remove it during the season, do you mean removed during summer ’24 or summer ’25? Did you hear anything about a possible replacement?
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I believe it will be similar to what happened at a-basin with pallavicini for challenger
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Did you hear that from the Alpine Cable guys or someone in Lift Maintenance?
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I got it from the leader of the Grand Foundations Pioneer lift auction who said to be prepared for those two lift sales from Winter Park.
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Interesting. I’ve talked to a couple guys in Lift Maintenance who have said there’s rumours about looking glass but nothing about challenger.
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I’ve talked to the planning and development director of the resort. It sounds certain that looking glass will be next in either 2025 or 2026, but that all depends on if the town gondola happens because the alignment will change.
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I can see Looking Glass going to a limited operation schedule similar to Arrow, Endeavour, Iron Horse, and Pony Express once the Wild Spur (formerly Pioneer) opens to see if people really miss the lift. It never had huge lines but was a nice alternative when Olympia was super-busy… but now Wild Spur will be a nice alternative also.
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looking glass removal with no replacement sounds weird to me. Olympia has some of the worst lines on busy days and its really nice to be able to take Looking Glass to be able to get back to the base side vs taking olympia
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When did park city announce sunrise?
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Has The Summit and Snoqualmie committed to a timeline for any of their capital projects outside of Alpental?
Summit West – Pacific Crest 4CLD & Wildside Realignment/4CL
Summit Central – Central Express 6CLD & Triple60 4CLD
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Wildside will be in 2024 along with International and Edelweiss. Will be a big year for Summit/Alpental.
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Hi Peter,
Do you know if the Taos base-to-base Gondola is planned for 2025?
The interview I heard from early 2023 was the put it in asap.
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USFS postponed the decision regarding approval of the gondola until May. Apparently there were a lot of comments demanding the USFS do a comprehensive environmental review instead of a “yes/no” review. If the USFS grants approval, it’s going to be tied up in court for years before any construction begins. Welcome to Northern NM.
https://www.taosnews.com/news/environment/gondola-decision-pushed-to-may/article_a8a400a4-f5e3-5d0c-9707-62f8d1cf9f84.html
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Gracias. This is very unfortunate. Fingers crossed that sense prevails and engineers can get the job done. Wokeness does not help the ski industry.
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It’s not wokeness, there are communities downstream from TSV who have legitimate concerns about the possible impacts of lift construction on their water supply (drinking and irrigation). The environmental advocacy groups in Northern NM (most of them based in Santa Fe) have been filing complaints and objections to almost every project proposed on public or government land long before “woke” entered the mainstream lexicon. There’s also concern that access to the Williams Lake trailhead and the Wheeler Peak Wilderness will be limited or closed off; it’s a popular trail in the winter for backcountry skiing and in the summer for hiking Wheeler Peak (highest mountain in NM). I don’t think summer access would be affected too much because hikers can park at the Bavarian adjacent to the trailhead or at TSV’s base parking and hike up Rubezahl (aka Home Run) to the trailhead. Winter access is trickier because the road from the base up to the trailhead is snowpacked and requires snow tires/chains. If TSV were to make the gondola free to use in the winter (a la Telluride’s gondola) for backcountry skiers and snowshoers, I think that would minimize the objections from the outdoor enthusiasts and their advocacy groups. TSV scans lift tickets at only two lifts, Lifts 1 and 4. I would like to know where TSV will place the terminals because there isn’t a lot of room at both the base and at the bottom of Kachina Basin.
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I think a Deer Valley lift may be missing. I was under the impression both Pioche lifts would be in operation for 2025-26 (Pioche Express & Pioche Access Express are the construction names), as both are really needed to have Pioche Village be online. The developer confirmed the timeline this week, with Mayflower Village scheduled to open in December 2024 (alongside the temporarily named Lift 3) and Pioche Village scheduled to open in December 2025.
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Where did they confirm that?
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Grand Hyatt Deer Valley is opening in Mayflower Village in December 2024 with lift accessibility. They have mentioned it being up to three lifts, but I would be shocked if it is more than just one.
Prospective Marcella buyers (ski-in/ski-out homesites) are being told that they will have slope access in either December 2024 for Marcella Mountain plots (adjacent to Mayflower Village) or December 2025 for Marcella at Jordanelle Ridge plots (adjacent to Pioche Village). Looking at a site map, there is no way to give those latter homesites ski-in/ski-out access without both Pioche lifts.
Phase 1 (2024+2025) is 10 lifts, but perhaps they do not count the gondola as one of the lifts? Or it may be only counted as a single lift?
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We’ll have to see how it all shakes out. The press release yesterday didn’t mention a timeline for lift service.
https://newsroom.hyatt.com/grandhyattdeervalley
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So it’s confirmed that doppelmayr will be building the Sunrise Gondola?
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It’s a pretty good guess considering all of their other lifts are Doppelmayr.
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It is announced that the Sunrise Gondola will be Leitner-Poma
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A bit surprising seeing that except for the Red pine Gondola, almost all of PC’s lifts are Doppelmayr/G-CTEC.
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LPA was probably chosen since the property and condo owners where the bottom station is are going to be footing part of the cost, and went with the cheapest option, which is LPA. Obviously, I’m disappointed its not a D-Line and that the lift is going to stick out like a sore thumb amongst all of the Dopp terminals, but what can you do.
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@ottawasnowboarder
I disagree.
If they were going to go the cheap way I don’t think they would have chosen a direct drive. Those easily run the cost of the lift up $500K-$1M .
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Yeah wish it was going Doppelmayr instead LPA to keep the mountain consistent with all the other lifts. Really makes ya wonder why they chose LPA
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The Gondola heading to Eaglecrest is not a Doppelmayr, but rather an SSG Gondola
SSG is the Austrian Stadeli who made lifts from 1986 to 1990
In the 1990s, you could lifts in Austria from a bunch of manufactures
Doppelmayr, Girak, Leitner, SSG, Felix Wopfner, De Pretis, Wito and rarely Poma
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According to Bear Valley Ski Patrol, they have a chondola planned for 2026-2027. It should run from the village to koala top.
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Where did you find out about the North Ridge express?
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Peter, when did steamboat announce the new sunshine express? Will they also be putting a new sundown express in?
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I believe Steamboat should upgrade Sundown to a 6 pack before Sunshine. The lift is one of the most popular on the mountain, older than Sunshine, and could use a capacity upgrade.
I believe Steamboat decided to upgrade Sunshine first based on the Wild Blue gondola bringing more beginners, especially those from ski school, to the top of the mountain. Since Sunshine has more beginner terrain I believe it made more sense to Steamboat to upgrade that first rather than Sundown.
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Add the just-announced Summit Express at Pleasant Mountain to your list! https://www.pleasantmountain.com/summit-express.
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This lift is being built for the 24/25 season so it’s on the “2024 new lifts” page.
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heard from several lift mechs at work that B quad is coming out and a detach 6er is going in on a new alignment at okemo that will have an upper terminal above village run. The lower terminal will be lookers right of A quad where the ski school meeting place building is currently located going up and over A quad with will remain as a reliever. At some point B quad will them be reinstalled on the gore side going up over the carpets and unloading above them. The upper carpet will be removed and also installed at a different location.
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Interesting choice of alignment, having towers on lower mountain road and skier traffic being dumped in an already overcrowded section of trail isn’t exactly going to solve Okemo’s ant problem. On google earth it appears that it would have to go to the mountain road Village run intersection to not require a rather extreme flyover over the black ridge and half pipe, which would probably be preferable to flooding lower arrow with traffic. Perhaps with some widening of lower mountain road and village run traffic flow could be managed, but Vail hasn’t seemed particularly concerned with the ant problem in the past.
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the good thing about this alignment is it is a distribution point to go to solitude / j gore or to the main face instead of everyone just having to go to main face. The lower lifts are simply one ride in the morning unless your a beginner!
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I understand the rational, I just fear that things are pretty heavily constrained in that area.
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https://bigskyresort.com/2025/future/north-side-lift Big sky has a lift coming too!
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According to the table, this lift is actually being built this year!
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When was the Becker upgrade at Snowbasin announced? I can’t find anything about it.
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I don’t think its been announced anywhere, however Leitner-Poma has posted job applications on their website and indeed for installers. One of those positions was at snowbasin, so it could be possible that it will be becker replaced unless Peter heard directly.
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Snowbasin hasn’t yet said anything official.
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Is it normal for lift installers to be hired a full year before the actual installation process will be carried out?
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The ad for Snowbasin installers was quickly removed. I think Becker will be a 2025 project.
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Would make sense, since they probably want old Becker to get a proper sendoff.
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From what I’ve heard at Steamboat, it sounds like it’ll be a 2 year project, with foundations this year and metal installation in 2025.
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Is Sugarloaf actually replacing the Timberline Quad with the old Six Shooter lift from Big Sky, and if so how would they modernize the lift to look as new as possible?
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I’m surprised that Sugarloaf isn’t going with a new Doublerunner first. Although maybe they want a new lift for that..
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A six pack seems like overkill in that pod – for the mountain’s first sixer. Unless it’s for added wind resistance (due to weight).
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Timberline gets traffic from Skyline and Superquad currently. The local assumption is the new 6 pack will start at a lower point down closer to the top of Bucksaw which will increase the pressure on Timberline’s uphill capacity.
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