Tag: Cuchara Mountain Park
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There’s about to be another lift-serviced ski area in Colorado
On December 12, Cuchara Mountain Park – which is located about 35 miles northwest of Trinidad in southern Colorado – announced some major news related to a situation that’s be ticking along for years. The ski area’s ‘Chair 4’ has completed state-required tests, with the spot reporting that this lift will be open to the…
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Long abandoned ski area in Colorado opens for season after major funds
Editor’s note: Cuchara Mountain Park’s “ski bus” started running over the weekend (Dec. 14-15) for skiers interested in a ride up the slopes of the formerly abandoned ski area. Nonprofit Panadero Ski Corp. will be selling $40 tickets on Saturdays and Sundays when conditions allow. If the saga of a southern Colorado ski area revival…
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Ownership could change over old ski mountain in southern Colorado
Control of a ski area revival in southern Colorado could shift following a recent decision by Huerfano County commissioners. Two of the three voted to pursue transferring Cuchara Mountain Park back to Cuchara Foundation, which in 2017 purchased the former ski area base that was abandoned at the turn of the century. The foundation then…
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‘Ski bus’ is back at southern Colorado slopes
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It’s not a chairlift, but instead a much different ride that has returned to Colorado’s ski scene. Nonprofit Panadero Ski Corp. calls it a “ski bus” — an open-air, 22-passenger trailer with long skis instead of wheels pulled uphill by a snowcat. The nonprofit overseeing a ski area revival in Cuchara recently announced selling weekend tickets…
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Sides agree to temporary path forward for old ski area in southern Colorado
Work to restore an old ski area in southern Colorado has resumed following a contentious halt. Ahead of a one-year agreement expiring this month, Huerfano County leaders had ordered nonprofit Panadero Ski Corp. to stop all activity at Cuchara Mountain Park, the site of the former ski area base and chairlift the county took ownership…
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Tensions flare in effort to revive lift at old ski area in southern Colorado
Efforts are on hold to restore an old ski lift as tensions have flared again around Cuchara Mountain Park in southern Colorado. “Right now, we’re wondering what’s happening,” said Mike Moore, among the project’s local leaders with a past career in the ski industry. That included various roles at the Cuchara ski area, which began…
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Amid controversy, dream continues for chairlift at former ski area in southern Colorado
It was a contentious winter in the effort to return lift-served skiing to a southern Colorado mountain. But proponents are moving forward with their plans to put passengers on a chairlift at the base of what was decades ago Panadero Ski Area, now publicly owned Cuchara Mountain Park. Rides could happen this summer, some say.…
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Concessionaire, questions emerge for abandoned ski area in Colorado
Last winter, Florida-based Jeff Moss and a business partner found themselves at a bed and breakfast in the southern Colorado hamlet of Cuchara. They were in the area scouting properties to plant Moss Adventures, a grassroots outfit suited for a “kind of remote” setting, as Moss described his vision from about four years ago. “Accessible,…