Do you have a fourth-grader? Now is the time to get them on the slopes using the 4th-grade ski passport.
If so, this is your year to get outside, starting this winter and continuing through summer.
First: Thanks to a program by the Minnesota Ski Areas Association, fourth-graders can ski for free at member ski areas during the winter season.
Simply sign up for the 4th Grade Passport Program. Passports are accessed digitally. (You’ll need to upload your kid’s most recent report card and a digital photo for the application.)
Passports entitle fourth-graders to at least two free lift tickets (not ski rentals) at all participating resorts. Some resorts (such as Wild Mountain in Taylors Falls) are offering unlimited lift tickets for passport-holding fourth-graders.
What ski hills does the 4th grade ski passport work at?
2025/26 Season Offer Listings
Note all offers are for the Passport Holder only, unless specifically stated otherwise.
Passport Holder may only redeem one offer per calendar day. Passports are not valid for competitions, group programs or roving instructional programs and cannot be combined with any other offer.
Note all offers are for the Passport Holder only, unless specifically stated otherwise.
Passport Holder may only redeem one offer per calendar day. Passports are not valid for competitions, group programs or roving instructional programs and cannot be combined with any other offer.
Unlimited Visits
Not valid with group reservations or school field trips
2 Daily Lift Tickets
Not available for school, club, other group trips or race events; not valid with any other offer, special or coupon.
3 Daily Lift Tickets
Cannot be combined with another discount, special or programs.
3 Daily Lift Tickets
Unlimited Visits
Rentals not available
3 Daily Lift Tickets
Unlimited Visits
Not valid with D Team events
3 Daily Lift Tickets
Unlimited Visits
3 Daily Lift Tickets
Blackout Presidents Day & Martin Luther King Day
3 Daily Lift Tickets
3 Daily Lift Tickets
Not available for roving ski schools or D team events.
Unlimited Visits
Blackout 12/20 to 1/5 & Race Days
3 Daily Lift Tickets
Cannot be combined with another discount, special or programs.
4 Daily Lift Tickets
2 Daily Lift Tickets
2 lift tickets per season for the pass holder only (no blackout dates, ) Add on a rental for the 4th grade passport holder for $10
Parents/Siblings $10 off full-day lift ticket
Add on Spirit Kids – two-hour beginner group lesson for $25 or a 4 hour full day Spirit Kids lesson for $50 (does not include lunch) (Advanced reservations are required for lessons. Mention 4th Grade Passport when registering. Lesson specials only valid on Saturdays and Sundays)
(Please call the Snow Sports Center at 218-624-8516 before reserving your lesson online)
3 Daily Lift Tickets
Cannot be combined with another discount, special or program. Not valid with groups, D Team or USSS/USASA.
Unlimited Visits
Not available for roving ski schools or D team events.
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Meanwhile: Fourth-graders — and their families — are also eligible for free entry into all national parks (and federal lands/waters) through Aug. 31.
Passes cover admission for the whole family, even at sites that charge entrance fees per person (or per car). In the case of per-person fees, the pass covers all accompanying children age 15 and younger and up to three adults.
Learn more at Every Kid in a Park and the National Park Service.
