Let‘s start in the west of USA, in Sierra Nevada! The new Homewood gondola for Lake Tahoe’s Homewood Mountain Resort is the second recent cable car project. Already orderd and partially delivered to its planned position, it is waiting for approval.

Austrian cable car manufacturer DOPPELMAYR is going to build it as a replacement for the 3-seater chairlift Madden triple. In the future guests will take the new 8-seaters gondula.

The planed cable car will rise 1,000 vertical feet making Homewood‘s entire peak accessible for the first time. In addition, Homewood is going to build new mid mountain facilites to improve the offer for their guests. If the project is approved, it could open for the 2024-25 winter season.

Sunrise gondola project

Park City Mountain (Utah) is going to replace their Sunrise chairlift with a 10-passenger gondola to improve their access from Canyons Village to the Red Pine area.

Main goals of the projects are reducing the wait times in the Canyons village base area, providing a third lift option to complement Red Pine Gondola and Orange Bubble Express, which will provide skiers access to the upper mountain.

New cable car for Grouse Mountain

The aging Blue Skyride at Grouse Mountain (Canada) is getting a replacement, which is sheduled to open in winter 2025. 27 cabins with place for eight people per cabin are planned to travel on the rope. Assembly of towers and line work will start in spring 2024.

After testing in fall 2024 the cable car will be ready for its operation. With the installation of the ropeway the ski resort intents to improve the experience for their guests, which includes shorter wait times.

Utah plans tricable detachable gondola

The state Utah has accepted a tricable gondola for Little Cottonwood Canyon. However, before starting with the construction of the cable car, an enhanced bus service and other road improvements will be initiated.

The system will be able to transport 1,050 passengers per hour from base terminal at La Caille to stations at Snowbird and Alta. It will include four sections, with 32 passenger cabins departing the stations every two minutes. The gondola is expected to cost $370 million.

Despite beeing officially selected by the state, lawmakers still haven‘t decided about the funding. Therefore there is no construction process settled at the moment.

Expansion of the Snowmass Ski Area

According to a presentation from Aspen Skiing Co., many improvements for the ski resort in Colorado are planned. Centerpiece of the project is the extended Coney Express (4-seater chairlift), which will offer access across the Snowmass Mall and a mid-station access point.

The proposed projects include a new trail from “The Edge“ to the High Alpine Restaurant, that is going to minimize the skier cross traffic and to connect Baby Ruth to the Hanging Valley Glades.

Also planned are glade improvements at the Frog Pond Glades and five new trails as well as distinct gladed areas of the Alpine Springs lift. Furthermore, Ski Co. will expand the Sneeky‘s Glades on skier‘s left, create new glades between Wildcat and Holer as well as Wildcat and Slot.

Too settled to be constructed are new beginner areas in Dawdler. In addition, to the mapped out expansion of winter offers, new attractions will also be created for summer. These focus on family-orientated activities, such as rope courses and hiking trails, that cater to children all ages.

New terrain in Sugarloaf

With the West Mountain expandation the Sugarloaf Ski Area Visualisation of the new Homewood Gondola (Maine) added 120 acres of new terrain for skiing, hiking and biking. Centerpiece of the area expandation is the construction of a new chairlift.

The Bucksaw Express is a high-speed detachable chairlift with a capacatiy of 2,400 skiers per hour. The location of the lift adresses the need to mitigate windy days, Karl Strand, the resort’s president and general manager, stated.

Telluride get‘s upgrade

Originally built to improve air quality in the region by keeping cars off the road, the Telluride Gondola (Colorado) has been shuttling approximately three million visitors, residents, skiers, hikers, festival-goers and commuters per year since 1996.

Due the fact that the gondola reaches its capacity, Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association pronounced the construction of a new gondola. Works for the system could start in 2028, after the long time funding is finished.

Most likely the cable car will be fitted with 10-passengers cabins providing a capacity of up to 3,500 people per hour. Therefore it reduces the wait time at the valley station. The estimated costs for the gondola are $7,2 millions.

Ski Santa Fe invests in new lifts

New Mexican‘s ski resort Santa Fe has seen records of ski visitors and now has to expand it‘s resort. Aside of two new lifts Ski Santa Fe will offer car pooling to free up parking places.

First to upgrade is the Santa Fe Express. It will follow the same line as the existing lift, but it will be faster and therefore increase the effective capacity. The chairlift is expected to cost $6 million.

However, except of the rope, the ski area personnel will install it themselves. Construction work for the new system is settled to start in April 2024 to open the chairlift for winter 2024/25.

After finishing this project, the ski area will look into renewing the double chairlift Easy Street. Further, the ski area would like to Replacing Totemoff’s, the mid mountain restaurant and bar, which is part of the resent master plan for the destination.