Eldora Mountain Ski Resort

Eldora Mountain Ski Resort offers a frills-free ski area with unsurpassed convenience. Located in Colorado, Eldora Mountain is an easy 21 miles from Boulder and 45 miles from Denver, offering the closest skiing and riding to the Denver area. This family-friendly mountain is a full-service resort, and provides a professional ski school and ski/snowboard rentals.

Eldora Mountain Ski Resort opened its terrain to skiing in 1962. Today, Eldora Mountain Resort is best known for its diverse terrain, cross-country center, and terrain parks, along with is charming local flavor. Annually, the mountain receives 300 plus inches of snow and boasts Colorado's best snowmaking system. The system provides coverage to 100% of the groomed terrain – that's more than any other resort in Colorado.

The resort covers four mountains, and is nicely laid out according to ability level. In the back, experts and advanced skiers head for Corona Bowl's black and double-black-diamond terrain. Runs like the West Ridge are definitely challenging, and the chutes and glades are for experienced skiers only. High-speed quads service the back bowls area, and many skiers spend their whole day in this isolated part of the mountain.

Indian Peaks and Challenge Mountain are laced with wide-open cruisers such as everyone's favorite first run, Hornblower. Little Hawk Mountain is the beginner and family skiing and riding zone. Tricksters can play in a terrain park with rails, rollers, table jumps and boxes or head to the 600-foot long superpipe.

Eldora boasts excellent programs for kids and families, with the most popular Nordic trail system in the state. Weekends can be crowded at Eldora due to its close proximity to Denver, but lift lines are not as busy as the increasingly crowded 1-70 corridor resorts. Spend the entire weekend with family or friends skiing Eldora Mountain, and enjoy accommodations in the neighboring town of Nederland, a historic mining town. Eldora Mountain's ski season operates from mid-November to mid-April.

For dates, pricing, and details, visit the Eldora Mountain Resort website.