The places have been picked. What happens next is unclear.

Fortress Mountain, Castle Mountain and Nakiska ski resorts — all located on Crown land in provincial parks — were selected by the provincial government under its All-Seasons Resort Act to potentially operate outside of winter months.

It’s part of the UCP’s goal to increase Alberta’s annual tourism revenue to $25 billion by 2035.

Cole Fawcett, Castle Mountain Resort’s sales and marketing manager, said they’re in the “evaluation phase” of looking at possible options.

“It gives operators like ourselves at least a pathway of achieving a greater level of certainty for private level of investment or additional investment,” he told CBC Radio's Calgary Eyeopener .

Fawcett said the privately-owned southern Alberta resort has mostly

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