Utah. Utah provides ample opportunity to ski cheaply. Each of the choices below is not far from Salt Lake City's major airport. Sundance Mountain Resort, an hour-plus drive from Salt Lake City, offers one-day adult lift tickets at $26 per day and one-day lift-plus-rental tickets starting at $47 per day. There's also night skiing, if you're into that. Accommodation is equally low cost in neighboring Provo, where motels start at $39 per night, but far steeper at the resort itself