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Echo Mountain is located at the former site of the Squaw Pass Ski Area. Echo opened late in the 2006 season as a terrain park-only concept. The area began to shift its focus away from terrain-park only and sold at auction in 2012. The new owner turned the ski area into a private ski racing training facility.
Name Nearest city Skiable area (acres) Top elevation (feet) Base elevation (feet) Vertical (feet) Runs Lifts Snowfall (in/year) Date Statistics Updated
Echo Mountain (ski area) (formerly Squaw Pass) Eldora; Granby Ranch; Hesperus Ski Area; Hoedown Hill; Howelsen Hill; Kendall Mountain; Keystone; Lake City Ski Hill [citation needed] [3] Lee's Ski Hill; Loveland; Monarch Mountain; Powderhorn Resort; Purgatory Resort (name changed back from Durango Mountain Resort in 2015) [4] Silverton Mountain ...
For six short years, visitors came to Echo Mountain to vacation like kings. You can hike there and imagine its charm.
Echo Lake Park is a park located along the Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 33.5 mi (54 km) west of Denver, Colorado.The park provides a stone shelter with picnic tables and barbecue grills on one end of the lake, and the 1926 Echo Lake Lodge (gift shop and restaurant service only) and an Arapaho National Forest campground are found at the other.
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Near Mestaa'ėhehe Pass, the highway heads west along the upper end of Echo Mountain Ski Area. The highway then reaches an elevation of 10,000 feet at Echo Lake Park, [3] where it meets SH 5. At this point, both SH 103 and SH 5 forms the Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway, [4] which is the highest paved road in North America.
The road was originally planned by the Denver Mountain Parks system to link Summit Lake Park and Echo Lake Park to their lower altitude parks in the foothills. As originally planned, the road ran from Bergen Park near Evergreen to Echo Lake, and then to the summit, while the road from Echo Lake down into Chicago Creek Canyon was a secondary branch.