Alta

Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Acronyms

• Alt-A, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of U.S. 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

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, 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)

Norway

• Alta, Norway, a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Alta (town), a town in the municipality of Alta in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Alta Airport, an airport in Finnmark county, Norway
  • Alta Church, a church in Alta municipality, Finnmark county, Norway
  • Alta controversy, a series of protests over Sámi rights and dam on the Altaelva
  • Alta IF, Norwegian football club
  • Alta Museum
• Altaelva (Alta River), Finnmark county

Sweden

• Älta, a locality in Nacka Municipality

Ukraine

• Alta (river), a small tributary of the Trubizh in Ukraine

United States

• Alta, California, a community in Placer County, California
• Alta California ("Upper California"), the Mexican territory that later became the U.S. 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

People

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

Art, entertainment, and media

• 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

Businesses

• 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

Ships

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

Other uses

• Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in Bangladesh and India, 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

See also

• All pages with titles containing altas
• All pages with titles containing alta
• Altas (disambiguation)
• Altamont (disambiguation)
• AltaVista, search engine
• Alto (disambiguation)
• Arta (disambiguation)