The warm winter of 2025-26 has claimed another victim.

Deer Valley Resort announced Thursday that it will close this weekend — nearly a month ahead of its anticipated closing date of April 19.

It is the second-earliest closing date in Deer Valley’s 44-year history. It closed the 2019-20 season on March 15 due to the COVID pandemic. That was also the resort’s shortest season.

The sudden end to this season came as Park City experienced eight straight days in which temperatures never dipped below freezing and often rose above 70 degrees Fahrenheit, according to AccuWeather. Per National Weather Service records, this has been the warmest winter in more than 150 years of state history. Amid those conditions, Deer Valley has reported receiving 144 inches of snow. It averages closer to 200.

The resort had a 33-inch base as of Thursday.

A long-range forecast from OpenSnow.com shows the resort could get up to 15 inches of snow during the first days of April. Yet Todd Bennett — Deer Valley’s president and chief operating officer — said that adding cold snow, or potentially rain, atop a warm base will only complicate things for the resort.

“We’ve collectively decided that this weekend is going to be warm and sunny, and that’s a great opportunity to go out on a high note,” he said in an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. “Frankly, we just felt that we couldn’t put the product out that we want to have next week. And that’s a really difficult decision.”

Deer Valley isn’t the the only resort shutting down early. Beaver Mountain announced earlier this week that it wouldn’t be able to stretch its snowpack enough to make Sunday its closing day as planned. Instead, it will close Friday.

Sundance Resort expects to close Saturday and Powder Mountain announced it will shut down its winter operations Sunday. That will leave just six of Utah’s 16 ski areas operating in April: Alta Ski Area, Brian Head Resort, Brighton Resort, Park City Mountain, Snowbird and Solitude Mountain Resort. Three of those — Snowbird, Solitude and Brian Head — have set May closing dates.

Bennett said Deer Valley is working with guests who have reservations to ski on days the resort will now be closed. He said it may be possible to shuttle some of those guests to Solitude, which is also owned by Alterra Mountain Company.

Reopening Deer Valley this year, even after a storm, is not an option, he said.

“We’ve literally been doing everything we could,” Bennett said. “When the grooming team says, ‘We just are out of snow to move and rebuild those key connectors,’ that’s a good signal for us that it’s been a historic season.”

Saturday and Sunday have been designated as passholder appreciation days. Anyone with a Deer Valley season pass — including the midweek, Utah limited, Select Pass — will be able to ski and attend a hosted lunch Saturday and Sunday at the Snow Park and Silver Lake lodges. Ikon passes will also be accepted.

The announcement that the entirety of Deer Valley would close for the season came within days of the resort announcing it would be closing down its East Village terrain for the season. Much of that terrain made its debut this season as Deer Valley unveiled the bulk of its massive eastward expansion.

“I’m incredibly proud of our team. In just a few short months, the team opened and operated nearly 100 new runs and eight new lifts —while navigating the lowest snowfall in Utah history,” Bennett said in a statement. “We have accomplished something that’s never been done before in the history of skiing.”

Plus, Bennett said, skiers have plenty to look forward to next winter. Over the summer, Deer Valley plans to add more runs, he said. By 2026-27, he said, the resort hopes to have close to 4,400 skiable acres.

It also hopes to get more snow.

“From a historic low,” Bennett said, “we can always go up.”

Correction: March 26, 2026, 12:15 p.m. • Individual lift tickets will be sold through Sunday.