![]() What can we do to help reduce traffic congestion, increase carpooling, and increase the use of public transit to the resort? How can our operations help change behavior? In response to this, Stowe Mountain Resort will implement a new parking plan for the 2022-23 winter season which includes free and paid parking, new payment strategies and special incentives for those who choose to carpool.” “I’ve been asked what we can do to improve the flow of guests into and out of the resort. “We are proud to be a popular destination for skiing and riding, but we recognize that traffic is a key challenge,” Stowe general manager Bobby Murphy wrote in a social media post. Vail must have liked the monetary returns, as it has recently announced that paid parking will be implemented at resorts like Park City, Utah and Stowe, Vt. Parking ran $15 on weekdays and $30 on weekends and holidays. Premium parking first went into effect this past season at Mount Snow in Vermont. Thus far, Vail’s only implementations to help control crowds have been a menial price increase on its popular Epic Pass (unlimited Epic Pass jumped from a cost of $783 last season to $841 this season, while the Epic Local and Northeast Value passes increased from $582 to $626 and $479 to $514, respectively) and paid parking at select base lots. Which brings us to another resort conglomerate which has had its own well-publicized trouble controlling its own crowds.įollowing another season of complaints about long lift lines and traffic jams leading to the mountains, Vail Resorts doesn’t exactly seem to be coming up with innovative ways to find solutions to the problems. I was dubious going in and, of course, there are plenty of flaws, but overall, Disney seems to be setting its goals with the new offerings. I can’t begin to try and explain how the systems work, but with only the small sample size experienced, I have to admit being impressed with how traffic flowed much easier than in past trips to the parks. ![]() Much of the crowd control might be attributed to Disney’s new Genie-Plus and Lightning Lane offerings, a couple of premium park features that have replaced the ever-popular Fastpass, a free, first-come, first-serve ticketing system that allowed participants to skip the lines altogether. This year, we spent a portion of the break at Disney World, where the only activity resembling skiing takes place at the blizzard-themed water park at the Florida resort.Īcknowledging the overwhelming popularity of Orlando as a family destination during spring break, there was decidedly something different about this trip to Disney World, a place long-known for overwhelming crowds and wait times better suited for the DMV.ĭespite the masses of people crowding the parks and resort hotels over a three-day span, the lines for attractions remained long, but not unbearable. Last year around this time, my family spent a few days of its April school vacation taking advantage of the final patches of snow that Sunday River had to offer. Will paid parking help control traffic flow on Mountain Road in Stowe? (Scott Braaten/Stowe Mountain Resort) ![]()
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