Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort will offer the fifth and sixth grade “passports” once again for the 2014-15 ski season. The program is designed to provide students the opportunity to ski or snowboard throughout Colorado.

Colorado Ski Country USA is the sponsor of the program. The organization offers fifth grade students three free days of skiing at twenty participating resorts, in addition to one free lesson at seventeen of the participating resorts. Sixth graders can ski at the same twenty resorts for $99.

Melanie Mills, president and CEO of Colorado Ski Country USA, said over 250,000 Colorado students have been introduced to skiing and snowboarding through the Passport Programs.

“We strongly believe that every child should have the opportunity to learn our state’s signature winter sports and become lifelong skiers and snowboarders,” said Mills.

In addition to Purgatory, participating resorts for the 2014-15 ski season include: Arapahoe Basin, Aspen Highlands, Aspen Mountain, Buttermilk, Copper Mountain, Crested Butte, Eldora, Howelsen Hill, Loveland, Monarch, Powderhorn, Ski Cooper, Ski Granby Ranch, Snowmass, Steamboat, Sunlight, Telluride, Winter Park and Wolf Creek.

For more information regarding the program, visit www.coloradoski.com/passport, email passport@coloradoski.com, or call 303-866-9707.