Tag: Winter Park
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Winter Park Ski Train ridership increases 153% in 2025
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Winter Park Express ski train posted extraordinary ridership numbers, showing its popularity is a “roaring success,” with ridership in 2025 exploding to 153% of last year’s total, according to the governor’s office The train, operated through a partnership between Winter Park Resorts and Amtrak,…
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Winter Park gondola reopens to public after mishap
A CU Boulder student and his dad were two of the more than 170 skiers and boarders who were trapped for hours.
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More than 100 people evacuated by rope from Winter Park Resort gondola after malfunction
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WINTER PARK — More than a hundred skiers and snowboarders on the Winter Park Resort gondola had to be evacuated from the cabins by rope after the lift shut down on Saturday. A spokesperson for the resort said the gondola had an operation malfunction and stopped, as it is designed to do. The shutdown was…
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Snow Mountain Ranch: Colorado’s ‘5,000-acre memory maker’ of endless winter fun
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GRANBY • The road weaves through young pines, short enough that the view is unobstructed: the Continental Divide, Indian Peaks and high points of this western side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The sky seems endless above. And below, a snowy canvas of endless possibilities.…
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Lifts, price drops, hang-outs and more new to Colorado ski country
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Last year around this time, we were talking about terrain debuting at Aspen Mountain and Steamboat; about a chairlift reaching Keystone’s Bergman Bowl; about the latest in an ongoing series of lift and base upgrades at Breckenridge. There’s always something to talk about at the start of ski season. As more resorts open this month,…
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For Colorado winters, La Niña has become the name of the game
Colorado’s most powder-crazed skiers have gotten to know the term “La Nina.” That’s because the most powder-crazed skiers pay attention to forecasts well in advance of winter, and La Niña has come to the center of those forecasts in recent years. It is again at the center of predictions for this season. La Niña refers…
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A look at 9 Colorado passes over the Continental Divide — and what to see on the drives
Call it the great separator, or the thing that unifies us as Coloradans. That’s the Continental Divide, or the Great Divide, so named for the mighty formation that separates our North American watersheds between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. In Colorado, we know it as the rugged wall between the Front Range and the Western…
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Colorado ski resorts in summer: A look at some standout attractions
The powder fades, and a different kind of fun ramps up at Colorado’s ski resorts. This century has seen the industry increasingly vie for year-round destination status. The latest and greatest developments spot this state’s Rockies — amusements for families, underappreciated views for sightseers and singletrack for serious mountain bikers. As ski areas shift to…
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An overlooked town of hot springs, and more than meets the eye | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS • Drivers veering off Interstate 70 go up and over Berthoud Pass to meet the youngest addition to a storied, once-isolated land. Winter Park Resort joined Grand County to forever change it. Should drivers continue on U.S. 40, they’ll meet Fraser, where…
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Powder primer 2023: A closer look at Colorado’s ski areas
ARAPAHOE BASIN (est. 1946) A-Basin is the oldest of Summit County’s four ski areas, beginning with former ski racers and World War II veterans. The decades ushered in a new cast of characters: a scrappy bunch who called themselves Atomic Janitors, cleaning by night, sleeping in an A-Frame attic and skiing by daybreak. Skiable terrain:…