The interconnected buildings contain the Roundhouse (patrol quarters), and a much newer facility housing the upper tram terminal, a quick-service cafeteria, and the Seven Glaciers 4-star restaurant and bar.

Source:[3] Alyeska hosted World Cup giant slalom ski races in 1973 for both men and women.

[6] Alyeska was bought in December 2006 by John Byrne III, who says he plans to make many improvements to the resort, concentrating on people who come to ski for the day.

Some of the improvements were installing RFID gates at all of the lifts, taking the bubbles off chair 6, because they were vandalized, repainting the tram, and building the only superpipe in Alaska.

[7] Alyeska has a subarctic climate (Köppen: Dfc), with short but mild summers and long, snowy winters.

Snowfall is extremely heavy, owing to the Aleutian Low, with an average year getting 209 inches (530 cm) of snow at the base (elevation 250 feet above sea level) and an average exceeding 650 inches (17 meters) at the top of the Glacier Bowl Express (GBX) chairlift.

The record annual snowfall measured at the top of the GBX is 939 inches (23.9 meters) during the 2000–01 season.