Yesterday, I was chatting with a friend about doing a Jay Peak and Burlington visit some time soon; partly to ski, partly to visit friends who have remained up in Vermont long after graduation from UVM. While I have the Indy Pass, he does not and so I pitched the idea of going further to the Eastern Townships to ski, given the good snow and favorable currency exchange. He seemed receptive.
This morning, I spent some time on NY Ski Blog this morning reading an old report about Mont Shefford and Mont Glen in Quebec (both of which are long closed - there’s our LSAP tie-in). It reminded me to go check out lift ticket prices for him, and I came across a multi-mountain card I did not know existed.
The l’Est Go card is apparently an Eastern Townships tourism card. Let me go over the details that will show why I was so intrigued by it:
-Gives access to all four ski areas (Sutton, Bromont, Owl’s Head and Orford)
-You can purchase the card with any amount of lift tickets between 2 and 8 total
-The card actually WORKS - activate it once at a customer service desk, and you don’t need to do it again. It’s your RFID lift card.
-Purchasing 2 days gets you a price of $65USD per day (!!!) and 8 days gets you down to around $61.50 USD per day (!!!). That is a STEAL for mountains of their caliber.
-No weekend or time of day restrictions - use it midweek, on the weekend, or even at night
-No locked days - you’re just buying the lift tickets, and you can choose when to use them at will. No need to plan out when you’re going to travel up there.
-And most interestingly - if you don’t use up your tickets on your card, they don’t disappear. You can use it the next season!!! Per the website, if for example you used your card in 2024-2025, you don’t even need to reactivate it in 2025-2026; you can go straight to the lifts. If you missed a season entirely, you just go get it reactivated at a customer service desk and you’re good for the rest of the ski season.
The Eastern Townships know what they’re doing! I am entirely convinced there is not a single better deal out there for lift tickets in the broader Northeast (not counting multi-mountain season passes). Wanted to share this information, and will update later on with a trip report if I make my way up there soon.
https://www.easterntownships.org/lestgo?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23025341947&gclid=CjwKCAiAmKnKBhBrEiwAaqAnZ8VAR_oFRLiNw7UOo8549rugs6RY8hE3MEnIdhsos9jE5hd0mg6lGhoCzyUQAvD_BwE
