A club membership is a real amount of money, and most writing about private ski clubs avoids putting it next to the alternative. This guide does the opposite: it adds up what the same things cost separately, then says who comes out ahead.
Third-party prices are from the 2025–26 season, with sources linked. The club's prices come from its current rate card.
What you'd pay separately
These are the things a club replaces, priced on their own.
| Need | Doing it yourself | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Close-in parking | $45 weekdays, $55 weekends in the Village Parking Garage (2025–26) | Resort parking |
| Reserved parking plus priority lifts | $2,499 per person, Reserve Pass with Parking, off sale Sept 2026 | Denver Gazette |
| Season ski locker | Waitlist; price not published | Resort lockers |
| Somewhere to change and warm up | Base lodges at busy times, or the car | — |
| Lunch | Base-area and on-mountain restaurants | — |
| A desk between runs | Coworking in town | — |
Thirty weekend days of garage parking is $1,650. That's the easy number. The others are harder to price because they're mostly time and friction, which is exactly why people underestimate them.
What the club costs
The U9200 Alpine Club is on the Corridor trail between the Winter Park and Mary Jane bases. Memberships:
| Membership | Monthly | Contract total |
|---|---|---|
| Annual Membership12-month contract | $1,000 | $12,000 |
| Seasonal Membership7-month contract | $1,500 | $10,500 |
| Corporate MembershipAnnual or seasonal | On request | — |
Seasonal membership runs November to April. Annual runs all year. Both include:
- A reserved parking space: one per member, 30 in total, uncovered
- A private ski and board locker for the season
- The clubhouse: lounge seating, fireplaces, a patio with firepits and a grill
- A slope-side infinity hot tub, with towels
- A coffee bar, full kitchen and TVs streaming live sports
- A work-friendly space with high-speed internet, a private office and a monitor
- Showers with towels and toiletries
Who a membership covers. The member's immediate family can use the membership and its parking space. Members can bring friends when they're there. It's a household membership, not one to split between two families.
Scenario: a couple skiing weekends
Two Ikon holders from Denver, skiing most Saturdays and Sundays from late December to March. Call it 30 days.
Doing it themselves: $1,650 in garage parking, skis in the car all season, boots on in the parking garage, lunch at a base lodge, and a drive home in wet gear.
With a seasonal membership: the space is reserved, skis and boots stay in the locker, lunch is made in the club kitchen, and the day ends in the hot tub and a shower.
Verdict: the membership costs meaningfully more than the parking it replaces. Worth it if the couple values the rest, especially if one of them works from the club on Fridays.
Scenario: a Front Range family with ski school
Two adults and two children in a weekend ski-school program.
This is where the separate costs pile up fastest. Every transition is a place the day can fall apart: parking, carrying four sets of skis, boots on in the cold, finding a table at lunch, the wait between drop-off and pick-up. A reserved space and a locker remove two of them; a clubhouse gives the parents somewhere to be between drop-off and pick-up.
Verdict: the strongest case for a membership. The immediate-family rule means one membership covers the household.
Scenario: a member who brings friends
A member who likes to host, skiing with different friends most weekends.
Friends are welcome in the club when the member is there, so the clubhouse, hot tub and kitchen become the group's base for the day. The membership has one reserved space, so the group arrives together.
Verdict: worth it for someone who'd otherwise be organizing lunch for six in a crowded base lodge.
Who it isn't worth it for
- Ten-day-a-season skiers. The fixed cost is spread over too few days. A day pass on the days that matter makes more sense.
- Midweek-only skiers. The problems a club solves are weekend problems. Midweek, the free lots and the base lodges are fine.
- Skiers who want lift priority. A club doesn't get you to the front of the line. That's what the Reserve Pass was for.
Private ski clubs elsewhere in Colorado
Colorado's best-known private ski clubs are at Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, Crested Butte and Snowmass. They typically offer lockers, valet parking and a slope-side lounge. Some are closely held. Snowmass Mountain Club, for example, limits membership to 200 families (Snowmass Mountain Club).
Winter Park is the closest major resort to Denver. The U9200 Alpine Club opened there in December 2024, and is limited to 30 memberships. For how it compares with the other membership in town, see Gravity Haus or a private slope-side club?. For choosing between the two tiers, see annual or seasonal club membership?