Winter Park Resort
Winter Park Resort
4.5
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Monday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Friday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Saturday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
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Voted Best Ski Resort in North America by USA Today readers & named Colorado’s Top Adventure Town two years in a row by Elevation Outdoors, Winter Park is Colorado’s favorite ski resort. Tucked away in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Winter Park offers more than 3,000 skiable acres and is home to the legendary Mary Jane Territory. The Resort also boasts six other unique territories to explore, offering trails to accommodate all skill levels. Situated among vast wilderness of untouched and open space, Winter Park invites you to experience Colorado Unfiltered.
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- Jane SLong Island, New York144 contributionsGreat skiing...resort meah.Skiing was fantastic!! Trails were covered with packed powder, trees had powder, all was good on the trails. BIG ISSUE was no trail maps. Yeah, we downloaded the app which is a real pain when skiing. Stop, take off gloves, take out the phone, try to see the map in the sun, etc. Not enough trail map signs. Should be one at the bottom and top of each lift. We stayed in the Village for a Sunday to Sunday stay. All restaurants close up at 8 pm. The service is fair at best. Only two decent places to eat (Lime and Vertical). The rest are just bars. The Village is primarily for Denver commuters, and services reflect that. Bottom line...go for the skiing.Don't expect a resort experience.Visited January 2024Traveled with friendsWritten January 29, 2024
- DeanneB969Littleton, Colorado78 contributionsEasy to get around, well laid out.We parked in the G lot which has bus service to the base area. The buses run at regular intervals so we did not have to wait long for a ride. Easy access from the bus to the gondola to get on the mountain. Love this ski area, easy to read maps, well marked trails and helpful staff.Visited January 2024Traveled as a coupleWritten January 31, 2024
- Sherry MSpringfield, Missouri306 contributionsWinter Park is our jam!We love Winter Park and go every year. Access: It is 90 minutes from Denver. Love Steamboat, Breck, etc. - but they are hours further. Parking: Plenty of parking if you time it right - either early or ~ noon when people are leaving. There is also a shuttle - but we've never had to take it. Snow: Has always been great for us from Jan to April Ski / Snowboard: A huge mountain with plenty of lifts and runs. Good for all ski levels. Plenty of lessons and instructors. Rentals: Rent right there at the resort for easy pickup / return and overnight storage. Atmosphere: Fun with plenty of restaurants and bars. Town: Great ski town with tubing hills, Hernando's pizza pub, great places to rent.Visited March 2024Traveled with familyWritten March 17, 2024
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landscaperjohn62
Southaven, MS77 contributions
Feb 2020
What is their not to like and enjoy while in the Rocky mountains snowboarding and skiing? ONE THING! The sorry bus routes not being up to par! Stood almost an hour while being passed by 3 buses. Then another time the supposedly fewer people on the bus route was the excuse for taking some off the clock! A city that benefits from the tourists and bases its entire ski operation around something like an operative lift and bus rides is NOT DOING A GOOD JOB with poor and mismanaged bus route pickups!! I know plenty of places in Colorado that would make a bus run the route for the potential single skier waiting in the snow! Rumors from the park service employees were talking about the city "paying less and getting much less". My first bus route had an old and out of date schedule still posted on the shelter I sat in waiting! The City of Winter Park, CO needs to get with it immediately!!!
Written February 10, 2020
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Leonard S
Albert Lea, MN440 contributions
Jan 2020
Our group has been coming here for MANY years and it's only getting better with several upgrades, including two new lifts. Each evening many runs are groomed nicely. The operators at the lifts are all friendly and courteous...one operator kept us entertained telling jokes each time we got on the chair. A nice variety of runs are available, especially blue and blue/black. Was able to rent ski equipment at the base of the new gondola at a reasonable rate without having to lug skis back to our hotel. We'll keep coming back here!
Written January 18, 2020
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Lenny1515
Nashville, TN79 contributions
Dec 2019
I enjoy this place a great deal. Village is accessible with a wide variety of restaurants, shops and apres ski areas. Always well maintained and clean. Staff is friendly and someone is almost always close by to answer my silly questions. Only negative is they don't have a beginner level area. You are required to send your kids to ski school and the cost that comes with it otherwise you have to lift up the mountain. Unfortunately my youngest doesn't like the idea of anyone but me teaching her and there is nowhere to go. Shes my last hope for a ski buddy in my family, so till she learns elsewhere we will probably not return.
Written January 6, 2020
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Zach L
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Jan 2020 • Friends
For starters this place is extremely difficult to get around in. One wrong turn could easily put you on the opposite end of the mountain. The trail map does not match up with reality. There is also a severe lack of signs so you never know where you are. There are no clearly defined areas for beginners. There are a lot of runs that start out as easy greens and then randomly turn into straight downhill moguls. Lift tickets are overpriced in comparison to every other resort in the area. Overall quality of the runs no matter what skill level are below average.
The staff and the designers of the resort are pretty dumb. It’s blatantly obvious that some lifts were put in stupid locations resulting in long flat areas that often result in having to walk if you are a snowboarder. Ski instructors don’t seem to have any clue what they’re doing. My friends and I spent a significant amount of time in a terrain park with ramps and rails that were clearly not for beginners but the ski instructors decided to take TODDLERS down it. Not only were they not skilled enough to be there but they’re physically incapable of even getting enough speed to get up the ramp. They were in the way and a serious safety concern. You never know when a little kid is going to lay down in the landing zone behind a ramp because they don’t know any better.
Will never return to winter park. Vail, Copper, Breck and Beaver are all better.
The staff and the designers of the resort are pretty dumb. It’s blatantly obvious that some lifts were put in stupid locations resulting in long flat areas that often result in having to walk if you are a snowboarder. Ski instructors don’t seem to have any clue what they’re doing. My friends and I spent a significant amount of time in a terrain park with ramps and rails that were clearly not for beginners but the ski instructors decided to take TODDLERS down it. Not only were they not skilled enough to be there but they’re physically incapable of even getting enough speed to get up the ramp. They were in the way and a serious safety concern. You never know when a little kid is going to lay down in the landing zone behind a ramp because they don’t know any better.
Will never return to winter park. Vail, Copper, Breck and Beaver are all better.
Written January 5, 2020
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Afton
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Jan 2020 • Family
We have four boys, plus my husband and I. So six people total, we buy Ikon passes every year and we split our time between Copper and Winter Park. We live in Denver and come up every weekend. While trying to sit with my youngest while waiting for my husband and other three kids I was harassed by multiple managers to leave because I didn’t pay for lunch. I had sat down for FIVE minutes, saving seats when they very rudely and aggressively tried to remove me and my two year old from the table. I asked the guy to give me fives minutes for my husband and other kids to arrive and we would be buying lunch. He told me I couldn’t stay here and the whole lunchroom area went silent to watch me and my two year old be yelled at. Literally during them trying to remove me, my husband and three kids walked in. The manager never apologized and told us we needed to pay or leave. I’ve never been so humiliated and treated so horribly. I grew up in Colorado and have been to Winter Park countless times, but Winter Park has changed and has become an unfriendly, NON-family friendly, GREEDY resort. Our family will NEVER step foot on that mountain again. They have lost our business forever. If I think back on how much money We’ve spent there it’s sickening, between ski gear, lunches, dinners, drinks, treats for the kids every weekend and our yearly ski passes I’m sickened to be treated so horribly.
Written January 12, 2020
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erichand
Albany, OR1 contribution
Feb 2019 • Family
Winter park no longer allows public (pass paying) customers to access their true beginner area with magic carpets. They require you to pay several hundred dollars for ski lessons. No longer are you allowed to teach your own children how to ski. Except winter park will still sell your toddler a lift ticket (with toddler pricing). Apparently the lift ticket is only good for the chairlifts that access blue and black terrain and difficult greens. Again, no other major ski resort, never mind one that claims to be family friendly, has this ridiculous money grabbing policy to prop up their ski lesson business.
Written January 5, 2020
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Ryan C
10 contributions
Aug 2020 • Family
The place is pretty cool. That said, we spent $520 for a group of 13 to play mini golf and for unlimited rides to the top of the mountain in the Gondala. Unfortunatly the gondala broke and was shut down for a couple hours and we weren't in a position to stay in Winter Park all day. Rather than offering to reimburse all or part of the tickets, we were told we could have a rain check for later this season or next year. Since we are from out of town this isn't helpful. Their response may have been acceptable if the issue was weather related... but I simply can't believe this was appropriate for mechanical issues on their end.
Written August 5, 2020
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Hoben01
Long Beach, CA3,136 contributions
Mar 2022 • Solo
This is definitely the place for those into bump runs. In fact that was what seemed to designate most of the black runs. I was pretty much skiing the blue runs and especially like the runs off pioneer express were nice long runs but the runout to the lift required a lot of poling. And I skipped the Olympia express lift due to the long wait, but the ski down to the lower pioneer express took a lot of poling if you already didn’t have speed.
I took the winter express out of Denver union station and that drops you off at the base of the resort.
I took the winter express out of Denver union station and that drops you off at the base of the resort.
Written March 1, 2022
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MarkFL-USA
Florida127 contributions
Mar 2022
We only came to Winter Park, because we needed to be close to Denver so my friend's son could drive up for a couple of days. I have never been before and will not return. It's an OK mountain but not user friendly for first time visitors.
There is no true ski in/ ski out lodging -- The Zephyr says they are, but I know what ski in / ski out really means.
We heard about the hoards of weekend Denver day trippers on weekends, so we booked weekdays (departing Sat). It was not crowded during the week, but the Friday incoming was significant and when we pulled out Sat morning, it was mobbed.
My biggest complaint was the unclear marking of trails. This is serious if you're ability is limited (I'm intermediate only). The green runs that take you back to the base are WAY too flat toward the bottom, so you're polling a LOT. The blue runs are fun, but again, they drain into flat greens that are arduous to access bottom lifts or the base. I guess if you're a beginner, you might take comfort in this.
I would advise driving on over to Breckenridge, Beaver, Keystone, Vail, etc., unless you need to stay close to DEN. Better yet, fly into Montrose, CO and ski Telluride. T'ride is the BEST.
Tips up!
There is no true ski in/ ski out lodging -- The Zephyr says they are, but I know what ski in / ski out really means.
We heard about the hoards of weekend Denver day trippers on weekends, so we booked weekdays (departing Sat). It was not crowded during the week, but the Friday incoming was significant and when we pulled out Sat morning, it was mobbed.
My biggest complaint was the unclear marking of trails. This is serious if you're ability is limited (I'm intermediate only). The green runs that take you back to the base are WAY too flat toward the bottom, so you're polling a LOT. The blue runs are fun, but again, they drain into flat greens that are arduous to access bottom lifts or the base. I guess if you're a beginner, you might take comfort in this.
I would advise driving on over to Breckenridge, Beaver, Keystone, Vail, etc., unless you need to stay close to DEN. Better yet, fly into Montrose, CO and ski Telluride. T'ride is the BEST.
Tips up!
Written March 6, 2022
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jeff c
Tampa, FL50 contributions
Jan 2022
This was our 6th visit to Winter Park and by far the worst. They have not managed the pandemic well at all. They are charging full price for lift tickets but only a portion of the mountain, that could be open, is open. As a result lift lines are very long and some of the best runs are closed. One of our days much of the mountain was closed due to "high winds". The next day the winds were stronger but more of the mountain was open. That leads me to believe they didn't have enough employees the day so many lifts were closed. The village restaurants and bars, other than Stoney's and Goody's, were just as bad. The websites are not up to date and the restaurants are opening later and closing earlier than advertised. After almost 2 years, Starbucks is still to go only. It was an overall bad experience.
Written January 13, 2022
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Is March a good time to visit if we are driving from Texa?
Written February 8, 2024
My husband works for a ski resort but I can't work is there a place to live that would let the whole family be together???
Written December 27, 2023
Thinking about an early April ski trip. Historically, how's the snow/condition at WP during this time? Any idea about this year's forecast?
Written February 8, 2020
Skied in early April a couple of years ago and the conditions were good. Although some of the slopes were icy around 3 pm when the sun began to go down as a result of snow melting. No idea about the forecast this April.
Written February 8, 2020
Hola, me gustaria saber si para skiar hay que pagar a parte y alquilar los equipos o el hotel te lo incluye. gracias!
Written September 24, 2019
We did the tubing, so they provided the tubes for us. I believe you can rent ski gear at one of the shops on location.
Written October 28, 2019
What about summer vacations here? Things to do? Would you recommend?
Written June 4, 2019
We did visit in the summer in years past. There is still a lot to do. Hiking, biking, slides. We only made a day trip out there, but it was really nice. Great weather. Scenery is beautiful. We had an 18 year old and a 16 year old with us. They enjoyed the activities offered.
Written July 24, 2019
We are considering skiing at Winter Park this year. We normally ski at Vail and not only love the skiing, but also the town/restaurants atmosphere. It appears there is a ski area with ski in/out lodging available and then a downtown area. What does everyone suggest? How far apart are they?
Written November 6, 2018
They ski lodge and downtown are fairly close. We rented a SUV and was very accessible to drive. If you plan on skiing a majority of the time, I would suggest you stay at the ski lodge. Then when you go downtown, there is a free bus transportation called the lift that will take you all over. Check out the Lift website. Otherwise if you stay downtown then you will have two haul your ski equipment to the lodge.
The ski lodge is neat. There are lots of stores and things to do. Downtown is really cute. Great restaurants, bars and a cool ambiance. We love Winter Park.
Written November 6, 2018
carlosruthie1
Texas Gulf Coast, Texas
When do you estimate to open for ski lessons? Do I need to advance book? Is equipment needed included? (Ski's, helmet, Google's, etc) Thanks
Written September 10, 2018
Usually resorts open in November. At most resorts snow is made for lower areas to accommodate beginners and lessons if snow is marginal at that time. Contact resort as you get closer for details. Rentals can or cannot be included with lesson packages depending on what you sign up for. I’m pretty sure Winter Park has outer garments to use but goggles, gloves, items of a more personal issue, I’m not sure. Contact rental department for these questions.
Written September 10, 2018
taking a group in january and some of them wont be skiing. Is there a place for them to sit and watch people skiing?
Written September 4, 2018
Yes... at the base of the mountain, there's a outdoor patio to watch skiers come down the mountain
Written September 5, 2018
Yes you can bring food into the resort area.
Written July 9, 2018
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