{"id":2441736,"date":"2019-03-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-skiing-co-announces-bonus-weekends-at-aspen-highlands\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T13:23:07","slug":"skico-announces-bonus-weekends-for-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/skico-announces-bonus-weekends-for-highlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Skico announces bonus weekends for Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/Highlandsextension-atd-031519-1.jpg\" class=\"size-large attachment-large wp-post-image\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/Highlandsextension-atd-031519-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/Highlandsextension-atd-031519-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Skico announced on Thursday that Aspen Highlands will open for two bonus weekends April 19-21 and April 26-28.<\/strong><br \/>Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">High snowfall totals combined with stellar conditions have led Aspen Skiing Co. to extend the 2018-19 season at Aspen Highlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Skico announced Thursday that Aspen Highlands will open for two bonus weekends April 19 to 21 and April 26 to 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Highlands was originally scheduled to close for the season April 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe 2018-19 winter season has been one for the record books,\u201d said Katie Ertl, senior vice president of mountain operations, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWith the Highland Bowl reporting 102 inches of new snow in the month of March \u2026 extending operations at Highlands will be the cherry on top of this incredible season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to Skico, the plan, if conditions permit, is to have nearly all terrain open on Highlands for the bonus weekends, including Highland Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On-mountain restaurants Merry-Go-Round and Cloud Nine also will remain open for the extra weekends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Lift tickets for the bonus weekends in April will be $79 a day for adults and $54 for children, teenagers and seniors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Regular season passes are still valid for all extended weekends and extension days for Adult Flex, Double Flex, Classic, Mountain Collective and Ikon passholders will be $39 and $27 for children, teen, college and senior passholders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspen-skiing-co-announces-bonus-weekends-at-aspen-highlands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High snowfall totals combined with stellar conditions have led Aspen Skiing Co. to extend the 2018-19 season at Aspen Highlands. Skico announced Thursday that Aspen Highlands will open for two bonus weekends April 19 to 21 and April 26 to 28. Highlands was originally scheduled to close for the season April 14. \u201cThe 2018-19 winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:37:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}