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Ski area competition is growing

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with SnowHome Properties

How many ski areas are in Colorado?  Well, that depends - on whether you are asking about open resorts or if you want to include all those that used to operate but are now closed - what are known as ghost resorts. 

To answer the first is easy.  There are 23 resorts and areas currently operating.  More than you thought, perhaps?  But, there are over 140 additional resorts that have been in operation since Colorado became a state.  These are Colorado's Lost Resorts

Two or three of them are being resurrected, including St. Mary's Glacier, about 8 miles northwest of Idaho Springs.  This was recently bought by one of the Coors sons with partners and is being opened as a terrain park.  It is also just about 8 miles from our exclusive listing of Happy Thoughts Ranch, where there are several trout ponds, Mill Creek and a wonderfully updated historic cabin on 6 acres. 

Another is the Holiday Hills Ski Area near Woodland Park, Colorado.  Juan Mijares, who recently bought 42 acres that include this historic area, hopes to reopen it some day. 

Finally, Squaw Pass near Evergreen, Colorado was reopened by a family who saw the resort on the Colorado Ski History website and were inspired to purchase the land and reopen the resort. 

So, Vail, Breckenridge, Steamboat, Aspen, get ready.  The competition is growing. 

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