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Old 11-02-2010, 12:49 AM
 
Location: Lancaster Pennsylvania
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Is there any bus services from Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins or Colorado Springs to various ski resorts?

Many thanks!
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Old 11-02-2010, 02:27 AM
 
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There's a number of van services to the slopes, with multiple pick up points in the metropolitan areas. For example, you can get passenger Van service from DIA to the Vail Transportation Center several times through the day.

The easiest way to see who's running and what their schedules are is to google the services from DIA to the mountains. If you want other pick up points, the respective services will have that in their schedule posting.
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Old 11-02-2010, 08:20 AM
 
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You can take an RTD (city) bus to Eldora from anywhere around the city.
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Old 11-02-2010, 09:35 AM
 
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KILO radio station here in COS:
During the winter months, the station organises ski trips to the nearby Monarch Ski Area.

The KILO website, in addition to providing information about the shows and presenters, gives details of upcoming concerts in the Colorado area, as well as weather reports and traffic information. It is also possible to listen to the station via the website.
94.3 KILO - "Colorado's Pure Rock Station! KILO Homepage"
RP
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Old 11-02-2010, 12:03 PM
 
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If you want great mass transit/bus service to the ski slopes, Salt Lake City, Utah has the Front Range of Colorado beat hands down. Better service, shorter distance, usually lower cost. Plus, the airport in Salt Lake City isn't another half hour farther from the slopes than is the city itself.

As fuel costs spiral (and they will), the Wasatch Front ski areas in Utah will absolutely kick most of the Colorado ski areas right in the tail. The Utah areas are far better positioned to compete in that environment than the Colorado areas are.
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Old 11-02-2010, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Pueblo - Colorado's Second City
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If you want great mass transit/bus service to the ski slopes, Salt Lake City, Utah has the Front Range of Colorado beat hands down. Better service, shorter distance, usually lower cost. Plus, the airport in Salt Lake City isn't another half hour farther from the slopes than is the city itself.

As fuel costs spiral (and they will), the Wasatch Front ski areas in Utah will absolutely kick most of the Colorado ski areas right in the tail. The Utah areas are far better positioned to compete in that environment than the Colorado areas are.
Utah will never have the kind of ski inudstry Colorado has unless we continue to live in the past and do not change. That includes building a HSR network that connects the ski areas to the front range and the major airports.
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Old 11-02-2010, 06:03 PM
 
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Utah will never have the kind of ski inudstry Colorado has unless we continue to live in the past and do not change. That includes building a HSR network that connects the ski areas to the front range and the major airports.
Dude,

Utah ALREADY has the kind of ski industry Colorado has. Get over it.

High-speed-rail will never happen for transport to the ski areas BECAUSE IT IS NOT ABLE TO NEGOTIATE THE STEEP GRADES REQUIRED TO REACH THE SUMMIT COUNTY SKI AREAS AND ANYTHING THAT WOULD LESSEN THE GRADES TO ACCEPTABLE PARAMETERS ARE NOT EVEN REMOTELY ECONOMICALLY POSSIBLE TO BUILD. That was in CAPS because I've answered that pipe dream of yours several times already. A late friend of mine, a civil engineer who worked his whole career in the railroad industry, looked at the feasiblity and quickly figured out it wasn't going to happen. The best that can happen is to use the existing conventional rail link to Winter Park, and to use conventional rail from Pueblo to Avon, etc. via Tennessee Pass. That actually is feasible and will probably become necessary when fuel prices make automobile transport to the ski areas and economic impossiblity for most people.
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Old 11-02-2010, 06:31 PM
 
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Agree with Jazz that HSR and mountains aren't in the same world with one another. HSR needs long, straight, flat tracks.

A Switzerland style mountain network is technologically doable, but at such cost that no one is willing to pay for it.

Taking the existing lines that JL mentions and working them into a scheme is the closest we'll ever get, but thoroughly doubtful in this tax-averse era.

Best bet is that fuel costs / shortages will force a major ski industry rail-bus program that uses the roads we've built and/or gets people by rail to places where the rails now go, like Winter Park, Fraser, Kremmling, Avon, and Glenwood Springs and then buses people to and from the resorts. But even that is going to take a good deal of investment and planning before something like that happens. We're broke, and until we get a ton of money we're not going to be building much of anything. But I sure hope the ski industry is looking ahead....
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Old 11-02-2010, 09:08 PM
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Location: Pagosa Springs, CO/North Port,FL
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[quote=jazzlover;16502103]Dude,

Utah ALREADY has the kind of ski industry Colorado has. Get over it.

Sorry CO ski industry is much larger-


Colorado Ski Country USA Media Center - CSCUSA Facts & Stats

Approx 12 milion skier visits in CO vs 4 million UT visits-

hey I love skiing both states,

but most destination skiers do not consider waiting for the Snowbird Bus on the side of a dirty SLC street corner lugging all their gear, part of their ski "experience" (been there done that)

Most locals in SLC drive now (try finding parking at the Bird on a weekend powder day) and will even keep driving if gas hits 10/gal-it is so close-and parking is free (unlike Vail)-most destination skiers fly in then rent a car.

I think it would be great though to find a way for Front Rangers to make it to mountains via public trans, because once you make it to the High Country, the transportation is very good and cheap/free (RFTA,ECO,Summit Stage etc)

yes there are actually some good things going on up here in Summit!!

let it snow!!
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Old 11-03-2010, 01:05 AM
 
Location: Lancaster Pennsylvania
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Wow... the mountain transit services want $80-90 EACH WAY.

I have a car, but looking at accepting a job in Fort Collins and thought I could drive into Denver and commute into the mountains a decent price.


Where's the charter buses that go early in the morning and come back in the evenings after the slopes close?


(thanks for your enlightening utah/colorado debate but please don't jack this post)
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