18 Colorado ski resorts are reporting improved infrastructure for the 2019/20 ski season.

These improvements range from terrain expansions to new lifts to newly gladed tree runs.

Last season was a banger in Colorado with record snowfall and copious amounts of happy skiers and riders.

Let’s hope we see more of the same in 2019/20.

LIST OF IMPROVEMENTS AT

COLORADO SKI RESORTS FOR 2019/20

by Colorado Ski Country USA

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Arapahoe Basin Ski Area

• 468-acre terrain expansion into Beavers and Steep Gullies
• New four-person Beavers chairlift
• First full season of Il Rifugo, the highest lift-served restaurant in North America
• Newly remodeled bathrooms in main lodge basement.
• Access A-Basin with a  Ikon Pass, Ikon Base Pass, Mountain Collective Pass or season pass for 2019/’20.

For more information, visit www.arapahoebasin.com.

Aspen Snowmass

• New $2.5 million remodeled Italian restaurant located atop Sam’s Knob.
• All Food and Beverage outlets to go ‘straw free’
• New 730-square foot Four Mountain Sports rental shop
•  Increased awards on Aspen Snowmass App
• Taiga Motor electric snowmobiles introduced to Aspen Snowmass vehicle flee
• Little Nell celebrates a 30^th Anniversary and spring remodel
• Continued development upon $600 million project Snowmass Base Village
• New community center, the Collective to open in December 2019

For more information, visit www.aspensnowmass.com.

Cooper

• New surface lift
• 70 new acres of intermediate or advanced terrain, the first in Cooper’s history
• RFID technology, First-Timer program and $30 Thursdays

For more information, visit www.skicooper.com.

Copper Mountain

• New Three Bears chairlift, with off-load warming hut and loading station bathrooms
• Construction of new 127-room, four-story Creekside Hotel

For more information, visit www.coppercolorado.com.

Echo Mountain Resort

• New food truck, Two Mile Pie
• Improved access to tubing hill
• New staircase-plus-deck outside the rental shop
• New Night Season Pass or Midweek Season Pass products–for under $100

For more information, visit www.echomountainresort.com.

Eldora

• New parking lot buses
• Rideshare app to connect guests and facilitate carpooling while reduce traffic
• New Zaugg terrain park shaping machine
• New tuning machine in rental shop

For more information, visit www.eldora.com.

Granby Ranch

• Replacing 5,000 feet of snowmaking pipe
• Openning new blue runs
• Wednesday night themed dinners
• Group, evening rental of East Mountain for night skiing.

For more information, visit www.granbyranch.com.

Hesperus

• Offering New Mexico schools discounted tickets on Friday evenings, called College Friday’s
• Three free lessons for first-timers up to age 7-yrs  with the purchase of one full-day, full-price lift ticket.

For more information, visit www.ski-hesperus.com.

Loveland Ski Area

• Partnering with the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Snowstang bus service for 2019/2020.
• Snowstang will run multi-point pickups on weekends starting December 12 and will run through mid-April, 2020 with some holidays.
• Full family private lesson plan

For more information, visit www.skiloveland.com.

Monarch Mountain

• Celebrate its 80^th Anniversary
• New retail location specializing in rental clothes and cold weather essentials
• New gladed tree runs and children’s interpretive run.

For more information, visit www.skimonarch.com.

Powderhorn Resort

• New base area food and beverage location with Umbrella Bar
• Year-round, slope-side accommodation in tiny home village
• Launching new app and website in the fall of 2019 to improve guest experience.

For more information, visit www.powderhorn.com.

Purgatory Resort

• Free ski and snowboard lessons to all first-time skiers and riders of all ages
• Children 10-yrs and younger eligible for free season pass through Power Kids program
• Young adults up to 36-yrs will to receive discounted season passes

For more information, visit www.skipurg.com.

Silverton Mountain

• Expansion upon unguided season, beginning March 18, 2020 and running five days a week, Wednesday-Sunday through April 19, 2020–an increase of over 50 percent.

For more information, visit www.silvertonmountain.com.

Steamboat

• New gondola, expanding uphill capacity nearly 40 percent and reducing ride times
• Ikon passholders will have access to night skiing Thursday- Monday from December through March
• Improved rental process and more retail offerings at Steamboat Sports
• Full-season presence of Taco Beast, Steamboat’s snowcat-turned-food truck.

For more information, visit www.steamboat.com.

Sunlight Mountain Resort

• A three phase, $4 million expansion
• Extended gladed skiing
• Five new hike back runs
• An additional 500 vertical ski feet of expert area skiing, with new lift and 100 acres of new terrain in the works

For more information, visit www.sunlightmtn.com.

Telluride Ski Resort

• 40 new acres of north-facing gladed terrain
• New natural features including steep chutes and rock drops
• A new Telluride app including up-to-the-minute lift status information, snow reporting, trail status, an interactive trail map, push notifications and more.

For more information, visit www.tellurideskiresort.com.

Winter Park Resort

• New 6-person Sunnyside chair in one of the most popular areas of the resort
• Reduced ride time from eight minutes to under four minute
• Reduce lift lines at bottom of Parsenn Bowl
• Premier offering of guided off mountain adventures like nighttime experiences or backcountry skiing or riding

For more information, visit www.winterparkresort.com.

Wolf Creek Ski Area

• Celebrates its 80^th birthday
• A new beginner/intermediate run, Orion’s Beltway
• New Powder room rental locker for the season
• Upgraded Raven’s Nest sunroom

For more information, visit www.wolfcreekski.com.

Grab the skis and check out the new and improved Colorado Ski Country!