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I've only been to Vail, but the skiing on the mountain itself and its sister resort Beaver Creek are simply amazing. Sooooo much territory, and it is unadulterated. There's long, flowing runs, good snow, and not many damn snowboarders to shovel all the snow to the bottom of the mountain for you.
The town itself is rather meh. It's super expensive, I don't think the area is really that pretty. There's a lot of CO that has better mountain towns than Vail.
I haven't been to the others so I really don't know which is best. I've heard good things about British Columbia resorts.
I've only been to Vail, but the skiing on the mountain itself and its sister resort Beaver Creek are simply amazing. Sooooo much territory, and it is unadulterated. There's long, flowing runs, good snow, and not many damn snowboarders to shovel all the snow to the bottom of the mountain for you.
The town itself is rather meh. It's super expensive, I don't think the area is really that pretty. There's a lot of CO that has better mountain towns than Vail.
I haven't been to the others so I really don't know which is best. I've heard good things about British Columbia resorts.
I agree. The skiing is great but Vail's not really a town, and definitely not the best ski town in the US, let alone CO. Personally, I'd take many other historic mountain towns-Telluride, Crested Butte, Steamboat Springs, Carbondale, Aspen, Salida, Silverton, Minturn, Eagle- to name a few- over the manufactured village and surroundings in Vail Valley.
Vail is pretty much the Disney of ski towns. I think it looks nice, but it's too polished and doesn't look like a real town. Same with Beaver Creek (although it's more of a resort than a town). Aspen and Breckenridge are definitely the nicest ski towns in CO imo. Way too expensive though!
I've heard a lot of good things about Park City, UT and it looks nice on streetview.
Vail is pretty much the Disney of ski towns. I think it looks nice, but it's too polished and doesn't look like a real town. Same with Beaver Creek (although it's more of a resort than a town). Aspen and Breckenridge are definitely the nicest ski towns in CO imo. Way too expensive though!
I've heard a lot of good things about Park City, UT and it looks nice on streetview.
Aspen and Breck feel artificial to me too though. Aspen is just like holy god there is so much money here I don't belong and Breck doens't even have good skiing or scenery. Telluride I've heard is gorgeous, but suffers from the Aspen mega rich problem.
Summit County towns are the most practical in CO, but the most quaint and beautiful yet still somewhat affordable and livable go to Crested Butte (with Gunnison so close) and Steamboat. Steamboat is suprisingly green for CO and I even saw a white pine (eastern US tree) while I was there!
I though Vail was just okay and some of it was kind of boring. Just seemed like a bigger area of the sort of beginner and intermediate runs that you find all over the country, the Back Bowls was the only sort of more alpine bowl terrain. The town reminds me of Whistler but just bigger(and sometimes even more crowded), but it's all kid of artificial(like Whistler). The skiing is way better at Whistler/Blackcomb though as far as high alpine terrain. Beaver Creek actually had more fun runs in some ways and it wasn't crowded with so many goobers as Vail. Actually I'd take a little place with great terrain like Arapahoe Basin over Vail too.
Jackson Hole and the skiing at Snowbird/Alta(close to Park City) would move those higher up in my estimation. Salt Lake City is by far the best ski "city" in the country with the nearby options. As far as cool skitowns with great mountains, I'll take Telluride, Crested Butte, Jackson, Park City, Stowe are all good options.
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