Third Colorado Ski Area Announces October Opening
Third Colorado Ski Area Announces October Opening
Published : 28-Oct-2022 09:56
Colorado's Winter Park Resort (pictured below yesterday) has announced its earliest ever opening date, next Monday 31st October – or Halloween.
"How spooky is that? Terrain will be limited, but don't let that scare you," said a spokesperson.
The resorts will open its Arrow Lift first on Monday with the Gemini and Spirit lifts also running. Along with ski runs the resort's Sorensen Park will be open with a terrain park.
It joins already open Arapahoe Basin and opening today (Friday 28th) Keystone, which says it will have a 2 mile long run open from the get go.
A Basin itself will open their second run, Ramrod, this Saturday, but stress there's still no beginner skiing or riding available.
The early openings follow a week of cold and snowy weather on mountains across Western North America following a mostly hot summer and early Autumn before then.
Dozens more US ski areas hope to open over the next four weeks ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday long weekend.
However a fourth Colorado area, Loveland, which has been snowmaking since the end of September in cold weather windows in the middle of the night and had said it hoped to open this week now says it won't be able to do so yet.
"Loveland has received 16" in the past week, the snowguns are going and the snowcats are pushing snow but unfortunately, we still have more snow to make on the bottom section of Homerun and at the base area of Chet's Dream. Loveland Ski Area will not open this week. Loveland is very optimistic that we'll open sometime next week," a spokesman said.
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