Beaver Creek

The ski resort Beaver Creek is located in Colorado (USA). For skiing and snowboarding, there are 150 km of slopes and 25 km of ski routes available. 16 lifts transport the guests. The winter sports area is situated between the elevations of 2,255 and 3,488 m.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2010, Beaver Creek opened on Dec. 15, 1980, with six lifts and a 45 minute ride time to the top, a “tennis bubble” base lodge and 27 instructors. Today, Beaver Creek is a fully developed destination resort complete with three mountain experiences and an army of top pros at its Ski and Snowboard School. From heads of state to heads of households, it is a place that people visit to leave the world behind, offering privacy, an intimate mountain setting and is recognized for providing arguably the best guest service in the world with the promise of “Not exactly roughing it”.

Source: skiresort.info

 

Has the climate crisis and the higher temperatures affected snow conditions in Beaver Creek?
Look at the statistics and graph of historical snow depths for the ski resort.
For the last 5 years, week 13 has been the most insecure with 157 cm snow depth on average in Beaver Creek.
The measurement is made as an average of the snow depth at the highest and lowest point of the mountain.

Not exactly roughing it’ is the ironic slogan of Vail’s kid sister resort, coyly underlining its status as about the smoothest resort in the US. We don’t find the exclusive resort village particularly appealing, but the mountain certainly is. If the budget is tight, consider staying down in the valley, in Avon. Beaver Creek, 16km to the west of Vail and developed in the 1980s, is unashamedly exclusive. The lift system spreads across the mountains to Bachelor Gulch, a small collection of condos and houses and a Ritz Carlton hotel, and then to Arrowhead, another slope-side hamlet. Down in the valley is the town of Avon, where you can stay much more cheaply than in Beaver Creek or Vail. There are free car parks in Avon for day visitors (parking in Beaver Creek is expensive and limited); you can take a free shuttle to the resort, or a fast chair up to Bachelor Gulch. A gondola links the Riverfront area of Avon to this chair. Day trips to Vail, Breckenridge and Keystone, all covered by the lift pass, and Copper Mountain are possible.

• Slopes generally quiet on weekdays
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  Mountain has it all, from superb novice runs to daunting moguls

   

• Fast chairlifts all over the place

   

• Compact, traffic-free village centre

• Lacks any Wild West atmosphere

   

• Very expensive

   

• Table-service mountain restaurants are members-only

   

• Not much going on at night

Source: Ski Club of Great Britain

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