Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Places

Canada

  • Alta Creek, the official name of the River of Golden Dreams, in Whistler, British Columbia
  • Alta Lake (British Columbia), a lake in Whistler
  • Mont Alta, a hill in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, basis of the Ski Mont Alta ski hill - see List of former ski areas of Quebec
  • Alberta, a province abbreviated Alta.

Norway

  • Alta Municipality, a municipality
  • Alta (town), a town within the municipality
  • Alta Airport, an airport in the municipality

United States

  • Alta, California, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
  • Alta, Illinois, an unincorporated community
  • Alta, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Alta, Iowa, a city
  • Alta, Utah, a town
  • Alta Ski Area, a ski area located in the Wasatch Mountains, in Salt Lake County, Utah
  • Alta, Fayette County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Alta, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Alta, Wyoming, a census-designated place
  • Alta Township, Harvey County, Kansas
  • Alta Township, Barnes County, North Dakota
  • Alta Lake, in Alta Lake State Park, Washington state
  • Alta Peak, a mountain in the Sequoia National Park

Elsewhere

  • Älta, a locality in Nacka Municipality, Sweden
  • Alta (river), Ukraine
  • Lake Alta, South Island, New Zealand
  • Alta Reef, part of the Bendigo Goldfields, South Island, New Zealand

People

  • Alta (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname
  • Alta (poet), American poet and prose writer Alta Gerrey (1942–2024)
  • Eelco Alta (1723–1798), Frisian clergyman, theologian and contributor to veterinary medicine

Acronyms

  • Alt-A, short for Alternative A-paper, a type of US mortgage
  • American Land Title Association, a national trade association
  • American Literary Translators Association, an American association
  • Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance or ALTA, an initiative to conserve the Amur leopard and Amur tiger
  • Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association
  • Accelerated life testing or Accelerated life testing analysis

Businesses

  • Alta (vehicles), a defunct Greek manufacturer of cars, light trucks and motorcycles
  • Alta Architects, an American architecture firm based in San Antonio, Texas
  • Alta banka a.d., a Serbian bank
  • Alta Bike Share, a provider of bicycle sharing systems in the United States and Australia
  • Alta Car and Engineering Company, an English automobile and Formula One racing manufacturer
  • Alta Copper, a Canadian mining company
  • Alta Devices, an American photovoltaics manufacturer
  • Alta Flights, a former charter airline based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Alta Group Newspapers, a defunct American newspaper publisher
  • Alta Motors, a defunct American manufacturer of electric motorcycles
  • Alta Newspaper Group, a newspaper publisher in Western Canada and Quebec
  • Alta Records, Dallas, Texas
  • Alta Wind Energy Center, Kern County, California

Ships

  • MV Alta, a ship that was abandoned at sea in 2018 and ran aground in Ireland in 2020
  • Alta-class minesweeper, a Royal Norwegian Navy ship class
  • , a former Royal Norwegian Navy Sauda-class mine countermeasure vessel

Other uses

  • Alta (novel), a 2004 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
  • Alta, Spanish term equivalent to the dance Saltarello
  • Alta High School (Iowa), Alta, Iowa, United States
  • Alta High School (Utah), Sandy, Utah, United States
  • Alta Club, a private club in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
  • Alta IF, a Norwegian football club based in Alta Municipality, Norway
  • AV Alta FC, an American professional soccer team based in Lancaster, California
  • Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal to paint the borders of the feet
  • Alta language, a pair of languages spoken in northern Luzon, the Philippines

See also

  • Alta Battalion, a Norwegian Army unit
  • Altaelva (), a river in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Altas (disambiguation)
  • Alto (disambiguation)
  • Arta (disambiguation)

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