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The mountain opened for the 1939–40 season as Winter Park Ski Area [3] and was owned and operated by the city and county of Denver until 2002, when Denver entered into a partnership with Intrawest ULC, a Canadian corporation headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, which operated the resort until Intrawest was acquired by Alterra Mountain Company in 2018.
Base elevation (feet) Vertical (feet) Runs Lifts ... Winter Park: Winter Park: 3,081 12,060 9,000 3,060 166 23 347 March 2020 [20] Wolf Creek: Pagosa Springs: 1,600
Winter Park is a home rule municipality in Grand County, Colorado, United States. The permanent population was 1,033 at the 2020 census , [ 5 ] although with 2,572 housing units within the town limits [ 7 ] the seasonal population can be much higher.
The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m). The "Mile-High City" of Denver , the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities.
Powers Bluff County Park and Winter Recreation Area: Arpin: Wisconsin: 1,430 1,180 250 3 2 $10 December 9, 2019 [349] Standing Rocks County Park and Winter Recreation Area: Portage: Wisconsin: 125 5 1 $16 December 9, 2019 [350] Sunburst Winter Sports Park: West Bend: Wisconsin: 1,100 866 214 40 12 9 50 $44 December 9, 2019 [351] Triangle Sports ...
Parry Peak, elevation 13,397 ft (4,083 m), is a summit in the Front Range of central Colorado. The peak is on the continental divide southeast of Winter Park in the Arapaho National Forest. The name honors Charles Christopher Parry, a botanist who made extensive studies of the Colorado mountain flora in the 1860s.
The pass is located on and traverses the Continental Divide of the Americas at the crest of the Front Range southwest of Boulder and is located approximately five miles east and opposite the resort in Winter Park—in the general area between Winter Park and Rollinsville. Rollins Pass is at the boundaries of Boulder, Gilpin, and Grand counties.
In 1912, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was hired to plan the park system. [4] Olmsted identified 41,310 acres (167 km²) of land that Denver should acquire for parks, mountain roads, and to protect scenic vistas. [5] Acquisition of Genesee Park began in 1912; it was the first park established and, at 2,413 acres (9.7 km²), is still the largest.