Nationally, U.S. ski areas had an estimated 56.6 million skier and snowboarder visits during the season, an 11 percent increase over the prior winter and the largest year-over-year gain in 30 years, according to the NSAA's preliminary year-end survey report.
In its preliminary results for the year to the end of August, the group said it expected "meaningful benefits" to flow from Project Phoenix from the start of the second half of the current financial year.