Alta
# 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), Troms og 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

## 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
