Winter Park Resort
Winter Park Resort
4.5
8:30 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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- Richard NStroud, United Kingdom459 contributionsLovely Resort, but that Road!!!!!Loved our visit to Winter Park back in June. Great vibe in the resort with local music festival ongoing, microbreweries serving excellent local beers and many good shops with everything a visitor would want. I'm sure the skiing is equally impressive too, but the whole experience of Winter Park would be greatly more positive if something is done about the state of the road service on the Berthoud Pass. I know it's high and the weather attacks it nine months a year but it's very dangerous and badly needs repairing. It is a huge disadvantage in going to Winter Park from the Interstate.Visited June 2023Travelled as a coupleWritten 14 September 2023
- 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 2024Travelled with friendsWritten 29 January 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 2024Travelled as a coupleWritten 31 January 2024
- Sherry MSpringfield, Missouri300 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 2024Travelled with familyWritten 17 March 2024
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Zach L
1 contribution
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 5 January 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 12 January 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 5 January 2020
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Ryan C
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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 5 August 2020
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Hoben01
Long Beach, CA3,138 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 1 March 2022
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MarkFL-USA
Florida128 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.
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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 6 March 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 13 January 2022
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gourmandadventurer
Oakland, CA25 contributions
Jan 2020 • Friends
I hadn’t skied for years and the rental shop at Winter Park made it so easy and pretty affordable to get outfitted with ski equipment. We headed up the gondola and took a few blue and green intermediate runs with a stop at the warming hut for some tasty drinks at the top. Would definitely return next ski season.
Written 10 January 2020
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Tim R
35 contributions
July 2021
The gondola, views, alpine slide, putt putt were all a lot of fun. Food options were somewhat limited and mostly fast food type fare. Alpine slide line built up quickly, the putt putt was great for older kids/adults but a bit challenging for the younger ones. Ticketing experience having to purchase on the app ONLY was a challenge as the user interface was not terribly friendly (we had 4 families together and 3 of 4 had problems with the site/steps needed to purchase tix, while the booths where you got your wristband were wide open and could've been used to speed up/help customers navigate the website.
Written 22 August 2021
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AJ
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Mar 2021 • Family
The employees are completely rude about masks. They have adopted senseless rules around purchasing lift tickets. You must pay for a day pass online. But you must go into the office to pick it up, but again-can’t pay for it in person. You can however purchase your day of buddy pass in person and they accept payment right there. You can also use your credit card for other purchases such as merch and food. They have arrows in and outside telling you where you can and cannot walk... really, are we monkeys? They have staff enforcing this. This mountain used to be great. However with the ridiculous rules they’ve enforced and their complete lack of customer service across the board including all staff from ticket counter, to lifty, and patrol. All I can say is NO THANKS. Go elsewhere where people have common sense.
Written 21 March 2021
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Is March a good time to visit if we are driving from Texa?
Written 8 February 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 27 December 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 24 September 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 28 October 2019
What about summer vacations here? Things to do? Would you recommend?
Written 4 June 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 24 July 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 6 November 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 6 November 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 4 September 2018
Yes... at the base of the mountain, there's a outdoor patio to watch skiers come down the mountain
Written 5 September 2018
Yes you can bring food into the resort area.
Written 9 July 2018
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