Alta Explained

Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Acronyms

Alt-A, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of US mortgage
American Land Title Association, a national trade association representing the land title industry
American Literary Translators Association, an association of literary translators in the US
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

Alta Creek, the official name of the River of Golden Dreams, in Whistler, British Columbia
Alta Lake (British Columbia), a lake in Whistler, British Columbia
Alta Lake, British Columbia, a community now part of Whistler, British Columbia
Mont Alta, a hill in the Laurentides zone of the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, that is the basis of the Ski Mont Alta ski hill; see List of former ski areas of Quebec
Alberta, Canada (abbreviation ALTA)

Alta Municipality, a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
Alta (town), a town within Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
Alta Airport, an airport in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
Alta Church, a church in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
Alta Museum, a museum in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
Altaelva, a river in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
- Alta controversy, a series of protests over Sámi rights and dam on the Altaelva

Alta, California, a community in Placer County, California
Alta California ("Upper California"), the Mexican territory that later became the US state of California
Alta, Illinois, a community in Peoria County, Illinois
Alta, Indiana, a community in Vermillion County, Indiana
Alta, Iowa, a city in Buena Vista County, Iowa
Alta, Utah, a town in Salt Lake County, Utah
- Alta Ski Area, a ski area located in the Wasatch Mountains, in Salt Lake County, Utah
Alta, Fayette County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia
Alta, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia
Alta, Wyoming, a community in Teton County, Wyoming
Alta Lake State Park, a park in the northwest interior of the state of Washington
Alta Peak, a mountain in the Sequoia National Park

Alta (poet) (Alta Gerrey, born 1942), poet and prose writer from Oakland, California
Alta Cohen, Major League Baseball player

Alta (novel), a 2004 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey
Alta, Spanish term equivalent to the dance Saltarello
Acqua Alta, a novel by Donna Leon
Alta capella, a 20th-century musicological term for Renaissance wind ensembles
Alta IF, a Norwegian football club based in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway

Alta (vehicles), a defunct Greek manufacturer of cars, light trucks and motorcycles
Alta Bike Share, a provider of bicycle sharing systems in the US and Australia
Alta Car and Engineering Company, an English automobile and a Formula One racing manufacturer
Alta Group Newspapers, a defunct newspaper publisher in the northeastern US
Alta Motors, a defunct American manufacturer of electric motorcycles
Alta Newspaper Group, a newspaper publisher in Western Canada and Quebec
Alta Records, Dallas, Texas
Treno Alta Velocità (Italian: High Velocity Train), a special purpose entity formed to plan and construct a high-speed rail network in Italy

MV Alta, a ship that was abandoned at sea in 2018 and ran aground in Ireland in 2020
, a museum ship in Oslo, Norway

Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal to paint the borders of the feet
Acqua alta (Italian: "high water"), the term used in Veneto for the exceptional tide peaks that occur periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea