![]() The mountain hosts winter events that include free concerts by national headliner acts in Vail Snow Daze each December, the revived Carnivail – a take on New Orleans’ Mardi Gras with a Rocky Mountain twist – with Cajun-themed après and after-dark parties around Fat Tuesday, the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships from the end of February to early March, the premier spring food and wine festival in the US, Taste of Vail, in late March/early April, and the season-ending Spring Back to Vail in April with DJ music and the annual World Pond Skimming Championships. And Vail doesn’t stop when the skiing is done, either, with excellent après-ski and nightlife. There’s so much terrain to explore you could keep on going back for weeks without crossing your tracks. There are three terrain parks, among them Golden Peak, featuring a 22-foot superpipe and 40 rails.īuild up your stamina levels, hone those muscles and get plenty of sleep before your Vail holiday as you will need all your reserves of energy, day and night. ![]() Its two gondolas and 29 lifts can carry more than 62,000 people per hour and once on the mountain they have 195 miles of conventional trails, the longest being four miles, besides its bowls. To crunch the numbers, Vail has a vertical rise of 3,450 feet and is open from the third week of November to the third week in April, receiving over 350 inches of snow annually. Those draw people back year after year, along with its extensive hotel and condo accommodation the pedestrianised village at the mountain’s base with its four hubs full of shops, restaurants, cafes and bars plus endless other activity options including a calendar full of events. Vail is famous for its powder bowls (besides its Back Bowls it has front-side bowls Game Creek, and the 650-acre Blue Sky Basin, both of which have blue trails for intermediates), a Nordic Centre for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, and family facilities on and off the mountain. But it is a resort that caters to everyone, thanks to its unrivalled array of groomed ski trails from beginner up to expert. It was one of the first US resorts to embrace snowboarding and is now regarded as one of the top destinations for boarders. Originally founded by members of the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, who trained for World War II on its slopes from their base at Camp Hale, Vail has become the ski resort of choice for around 1.5 million holidaymakers every year. It is, quite simply, one of the best places you can go for a skiing holiday. It also has more luxury hotels and more spas than all other US resorts, more amenities on the mountain and at its base village than others, the largest free public transportation system in the US and one of the biggest ski schools of any resort anywhere in the world. Vail has more powder bowl skiing than any other US resort, its Back Bowls alone comprising 3,000 acres. It is the country’s biggest single ski mountain resort in terms of ski terrain acreage, with its skiable areas measuring almost 5,300 acres. Set in the heart of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, it is the most popular ski resort in the United States. ![]() ![]() A ski resort that’s superlative in every sense, Vail has it all. ![]()
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