Beaver Creek Ski Area, Colorado, United States

5i_buckley 5:00 PM Feb 27, 2022

Excellent
Spent 2 snowy days skiing in Beaver Creek and loved it. First time skiing outside of Europe and although there is less terrain so wouldn’t spent the whole week skiing in one area your ski pass covers many other resorts within an hours drive so would try out a few resorts. Beaver Creek is intermediates and beginners heaven so many runs to choice all varied from skiing down wide runs through to skiing through trees although several of the greens did need too much poling. I always thought I was a fair weather skier and have not enjoyed skiing whilst snowing in Europe but I actually enjoyed it here as visibility was good and the fresh powder was great on the well groomed slopes. We were their UK half term and unlike Europe the lift queues were virtually none existence a few mins max. The Epicpass App is great to plan route. We booked our son on the teenagers 2 full day advance ski school which is expensive but he’s too good to ski with us. The day before we received a strange email stating he could join kids or adults for half day but no mention of teens meet up so we tried calling to no success (not good service given how much you pay). When we arrived we were told there was no teens but could join adults or kids but still full day, as he’s 17 decided on the adults but when went to join the group told it was only level 6 which is below his level. Spoke to a different staff member who was great he said join kids advance group as is most likely to be older teens and if not or below his level they would sort out something suitable. It turned out to be 4 in the group all except one a similar age and the younger one was best in the group. Our son loved it they spent both day enjoying off piste, he was physically exhausted after each day but wanted to do it all again. Earlier in the week he enjoyed an advance adult lesson in Breckenridge and equally enjoyed that and the fact that was more geared to technique where as this was fun and challenging terrain. Skiing in Colorado is way more expensive than Europe but we loved it and will definitely be back (hopefully next year).

5FOTMM 5:00 PM Feb 16, 2022

For cruising groomers with the kiddos, this place is the bees knees!
We skied here midweek since Beaver Creek is on our Epic pass. Conditions varied from hardpack one day to powder the next and we enjoyed ourselves the entire time. We encountered no lines, friendly employees, and a tremendous amount of blue and green terrain for folks to spread out. Having so much beginner terrain up high is really nice compared to resorts where the learning area is a throughway for skiers of all levels heading to the bottom of the mountain. Definitely something to consider, along with the fact that every lift is high speed which means more time skiing and less time sitting in the cold. We covered nearly 20k feet of vertical in just over two hours, which is much more than what you might get in a day at other resorts when there's long lines and busy slopes. For a family ski vacation, this place is hard to beat.