Everything here comes from skinh.com — no aggregator sites. The trade-off is the whole story, so read that before you spend the $59.
Grades: fourth and fifth. Access: one lift ticket or trail pass voucher at each of Ski NH's 30-plus member ski areas — one per area, not three. Price: $59. Format: the passport lives in the WinterKids app, installed on a parent's phone once your application is approved. There's no printed pass.
This is the difference between New Hampshire's program and every other one we've verified, and it should drive whether you buy it. Colorado gives four days at each resort. Utah gives three. Vermont gives three. Idaho gives three for fifth graders. New Hampshire gives one.
| Program | Days at each area | Built for |
|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 1 | Touring 30+ mountains once each |
| Vermont | 3 (alpine + Nordic) | Variety, if an adult skis too |
| Idaho (5th) | 3 | Repeat visits at ~18 areas |
| Utah | 3 | Repeat visits at all 15 resorts |
| Colorado | 4 | Repeat visits, two stacked programs |
The trade is that New Hampshire has more participating areas than most states have resorts, so the passport is built for touring rather than repeat visits. If your plan is to ski your home mountain every weekend, this passport covers exactly one of those weekends. If your plan is to show your kid a dozen different New Hampshire mountains over a season, nothing else comes close. Decide which of those you are before you spend the $59.
Register the moment 2026-27 opens
Ski NH states plainly that supplies are limited and passports do sell out — the registration page currently confirms the program is sold out for the season. That's a meaningful difference from Colorado, Utah, and Idaho, where the constraint is a date on the calendar. Here the constraint is other families. We'll update this page when Ski NH announces the 2026-27 open date.
Blackout dates apply and are published by Ski NH for each season — confirm the current set before planning around a holiday week, since they move annually. And one piece of advice comes directly from Ski NH, the kind you only learn by getting burned: open your offer at home before you head to the mountain. Reception and WiFi at NH ski areas are unreliable, and a voucher you can't load is a voucher you can't use. Screenshot it if the app allows.
Worth knowing if you're near the border. The app behind New Hampshire's passport is run by WinterKids, a Maine nonprofit, which also operates Maine's own program — and Ski NH points families there directly when the NH passport sells out. Maine's version is structured differently and more broadly: rather than a single grade band, the WinterKids Passport covers all kids aged 5 to 17, as an annual family membership rather than a per-child pass, across 50 partner locations statewide (16 downhill, 19 cross-country, 11 ice arenas, 3 tubing/sledding, 1 dog-sled center). If you have more than one child, or kids outside 4th and 5th grade, Maine's structure may fit better. We haven't verified Maine's current fee at the source, so check winterkids.org directly.
- Families who want to explore — 30-plus mountains at one day each is a season of variety no other program offers.
- Families near the state's ski corridor, where several member areas sit within an hour of each other.
- Less good for a family with one home mountain (you get a single day there), or anyone who can't register the moment the program opens — because it will sell out.
How much is the Ski NH 4th and 5th Grade Passport?
$59 — one voucher at each of 30-plus member areas.
What grades qualify?
Fourth and fifth.
How many days do we get?
One lift-ticket or trail-pass voucher at each of 30-plus areas — breadth, not depth.
Is it a printed pass?
No — it's delivered through the WinterKids app, installed after approval. Load it at home before you leave; mountain WiFi is unreliable.
Does it sell out?
Yes. Supplies are limited and the page currently shows it sold out for the season. Register the moment 2026-27 opens.
What if it's sold out?
Ski NH points families to the WinterKids Passport in Maine — ages 5 to 17, 50 partner locations. Confirm the fee at winterkids.org.
The other verified programs run deeper at fewer places: Vermont gives 90+ days for $35 (but an adult must hold a ticket), Colorado stacks to 96 days for $77–$82, Utah is 45 days at 15 resorts for $79, and Idaho is the cheapest at $29. See the full side-by-side comparison — and remember New Hampshire wins on breadth, not day count.
🔎 How we verified this: price, grade eligibility, voucher structure, the app requirement, and sell-out status came from skinh.com and its registration page; Maine details from winterkids.org. No aggregator or coupon sites. Maine's current fee isn't published where we could verify it, so confirm it directly.
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