If your passion for skiing or snowboarding exceeds your budget or abilities, try this well-priced weekday package at California’s Yosemite National Park, where you you can ski, eat, sleep and sharpen your sports skills. And with the park’s Badger Pass Ski Area boasting new state-of-the-art chairlifts and other improvements, it’s a great time to go.

“We are here to stay,” public relations manger Kenny Karst said. “We never thought about closing.”

Badger, which closes for the season March 29, was the center in recent years of media and customer speculation about its future. When turnout slumped several years ago, rumors circulated about Badger’s permanent closure.