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Ski Cooper is an alpine ski resort in Colorado, one of the oldest in the state. Opened as Cooper Hill Ski Area in 1942, the ski area served as the training site for the 10th Mountain Division, based at nearby Camp Hale during World War II. [1] The resort is owned by Lake County and managed by Cooper Hill Ski Area, a 501(c)4 nonprofit with a ...
Comparison of Colorado ski resorts. Colorado offers many world-class [clarification needed] ski resorts. The following table compares their various sizes, runs, lifts, and snowfall: Name. Nearest city. Skiable area (acres) Top elevation (feet) Base elevation (feet) Vertical (feet)
Of the 503 ski areas, 390 are "public U.S. ski areas that run chairlifts" and "113 either run only surface lifts, or are not open to the general public", says to Storm Skiing. [5] Of the 390 public, chairlift areas, 233 or 60% have joined one or more United States–based, international multi-mountain ski pass , according to Storm Skiing.
Copper Mountain is a mountain and ski resort located in Summit County, Colorado, about 75 miles (120 km) west of Denver on Interstate 70. The resort has 2,465 acres (3.9 sq mi; 10.0 km 2) of in-bounds terrain under lease from the U.S. Forest Service, White River National Forest, Dillon Ranger District. It is operated by POWDR.
List of ski resorts. Arapahoe Basin. Aspen Highlands (Aspen) Aspen Mountain (Aspen) (formerly Ajax) Beaver Creek. Breckenridge. Buttermilk (Aspen) Chapman Hill Ski Area [1] Copper Mountain.
Will new hopes for Copper Peak, once a world-class ski ... a largely rural area with a population of about 5,000, was settled in the mid-1800s. ... But organizers point to a study that concludes ...
Trainees were taught to ski at Cooper Hill by ski instructors, brought from the ski-areas such as Sun Valley and Waterville Valley. [8] Located three miles (5 km) south of the camp, Cooper Hill had on-site barracks for the instructors and a newly built T-bar lift for the trainees. [15]
The lower part of Peak 7 is an area of rolling intermediate trails, groomed nightly. Peak 7's base area is composed of two large lodges, the Crystal Peak Lodge and the Grand Lodge on Peak 7, and is connected to town by one of two midway stations on the BreckConnect Gondola. The base area also has a restaurant, Sevens, opened in February 2009.