Once again, several Park City ski resorts are offering the START (ski today and ride today) program for visitors to Utah. If you’re flying into Salt Lake City and manage to reach the slopes before the lifts close, you can turn your airline boarding pass into a free same-day lift ticket valid at Deer Valley Resort, The Canyons or Park City Mountain Resort.

With the participating resorts about 30 to 40 minutes from the airport, it’s a completely plausible option for many travelers, especially if you’re flying from the East Coast.

Looking for resorts with reps for pleasing parents and kids alike? A good place to start your research is this list of 10 Top Family-Friendly Resorts for winter travel from the November issue of Parents magazine. Chosen by the editors of the magazine, the resorts that made the list not only cater to families, but offer rooms for $250 or less:

Jackson Gore Inn, Ludlow, VT

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Strangers to snow, one U.S. state is on the hunt to find you and bring you in. If you've never seen, touched, skied on or made sibling-leveling snowball weaponry out of snow, you may be just the person Colorado is hoping to host as its guest during a three-month, all-expenses paid trip this winter.