Welcome to
Winter Park Sights!
Winter Park in Colorado has been a family friendly
ski resort for over sixty years. Located about an
hour-and-a-half away from Denver, Winter Park is one of
the most accessible primary ski areas to the
city and Denver International Airport. In the
heart of the Arapahoe National Forest, Winter
Park can be reached in a car or van by way of
West Interstate-70 and exiting onto Highway
40. Many skiers choose to reach Winter Park on
the Ski Train from Union Station in
downtown Denver. The Ski Train arrives at
Winter Park most weekends during the ski
season. It arrives from Denver about
nine-thirty each morning and returns to Denver
at four-fifteen. Skiers are dropped off just a
short distance from the ski base. The rail
trip is about two hours each way. The three
main ski mountains at Winter Park are Winter
Park, Mary Jane, and Vasquez Ridge. The resort
has 140 maintained ski runs on over 3,000
skiable acres. Winter Park is able to make
manmade snow on nearly 300 acres. The resort
receives over 350 inches of snow each winter
season. The ski season usually runs from
mid-November to April. Winter Park has
twenty-five ski lifts in operation. With a
9,000-foot elevation at the base and a summit
of 12,060 feet, Winter Park has over a
3,000-foot vertical drop. Winter Park began as
a city owned and operated Denver Mountain
Park. Winter Park offers snowboarding
opportunities from beginner to expert. The
resort operates one of the largest programs
for disabled skiers. The National Sports
Center for the Disabled (NSCD) is known
internationally. It is a non-profit program.
For non-skiers, the Winter Park Tour
Department offers two-hour heated snowcat
excursions. Guided snowshoe tours from the top
of the Gemini lift are also available. During
summer months, Winter Park has an Alpine Slide
and miniature golf open. The Winter Park
Resort is being developed by Intrawest.
Intrawest is headquartered in Vancouver,
British Columbia. Besides the Copper Mountain Ski Resort and
Steamboat Springs in Colorado,
Intrawest also owns Whistler-Blackcomb in
British Columbia.
