Alta

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

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 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 (lit. 'Alta River'), a river in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway
 * Alta controversy, a series of protests over Sámi rights and dam on the Altaelva

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 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

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
 * Alta IF, a Norwegian football club based in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway

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 (M314), a museum ship in Oslo, Norway

Other uses

 * 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