Alta

Template:Wiktionary 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
• Australasian Language Technology 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
• Template:HNoMS, 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 (Template:Lit), a river in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
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• Altas (disambiguation)
• Alto (disambiguation)
• Arta (disambiguation)