Alta or ALTA may refer to:

Acronyms

Alt-A An Alt-A mortgage, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of U.S. mortgage that, for various reasons, is considered riskier than A-paper, or "prime", and less risky than "subprime," the riskiest category. For these reasons, as well as in some ca ...

, 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), ''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

Other uses

* Alta (dye), a red paste used by women in Bangladesh and India, to paint the borders of the feet * MV Alta, MV ''Alta'', a ship that was abandoned at sea in 2018 and ran aground in Ireland in 2020 * Acqua alta (Italian: "high water"), the term used in Veneto for the exceptional tide peaks that occur periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea