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Season Rentals

Season Ski Rentals in Utah: Lease vs Daily vs Buying

The break-even is about a week of skiing. After that, a season lease is the boring, correct answer for most families.

A season ski rental in Salt Lake City is cheaper than stacking daily rates once you ski more than about six or seven days. Our sport package is $35 on day one. Call (801) 943-1104 for this season's adult and junior lease prices — we would rather quote you than publish a number that went stale on Instagram.

Daily vs season vs buy

  • Daily rentals — visitors, four-day trips, and anyone still deciding if they like skiing. Packages from $35/day, junior from $25.
  • Season lease — locals and families who will be in the Cottonwoods most weekends. Gear is fitted once, sitting at home, and swapped if a kid grows. Serviced during the winter.
  • Buying — adults with a stable boot size who ski 20+ days and already know the ski they want. Demo first. Do not buy for a child who will outgrow a boot between December and March.

The math, without the sales pitch

Take your realistic number of ski days — not the number you promised yourself in October — and multiply by the daily rate. Sport at $35 day one, $25 on day 3+. Seven sport days already rivals a typical adult season lease. Fifteen days is not close. Two kids in lessons is never close.

If you ski four days a year, stay on daily rentals and we will tell you so at the counter. A lease you do not use is just a prepaid closet. The season rental page has the daily table so you can do the arithmetic before you call.

Kids: this is why leases exist

A nine-year-old can go up a boot size and a ski length inside one winter. Buy in November and you may buy again in February, then try to resell last year's skis to someone else's kid. A lease includes the size swap. Bring the gear in; we change it. That is the product.

Length still matters. Use the ski sizing chart as a starting point, then let us put them on snow-length that matches how they actually ski, not the length a parent remembers from 1998. More on junior daily rates: kids ski rentals in Salt Lake City.

When we will tell you to buy

Adult, boot size stable, you already know you want a specific waist width for Little Cottonwood, and you will ski enough that a lease feels like renting a car you live in. Demo the ski for a day first — demos from $70. We do not currently run a demo-credit-toward-purchase program; if another shop does and that is the deciding factor, use it. Book season leases in October or November. Junior sizes go first. December walk-ins are how people end up on the wrong length.

Pick up at the canyon junction

3700 Fort Union Blvd, Cottonwood Heights — last stop before Snowbird, Alta, Brighton, and Solitude. Open daily. Reserve online or call (801) 943-1104.

Call (801) 943-1104
Call The Lifthouse at (801) 943-1104