Aspen Highlands usa
Review of snowboarding and skiing in Aspen Highlands USA.
Aspen Highlands Ski Holiday Facts
Established in 1945 the American ski resort Aspen Highlands lies at 3559 metres altitude in the Colorado region of the American Rockies. With the highest lifts and ski slopes above 2500m Aspen Highlands ski area is snow sure. Over 490 snow cannons ensure artificial Aspen Highlands snow making covers ?km of ski trails, which equates to around 16 of the ski slopes. The nearest airport transfer to Aspen Highlands (USA) is Denver at a distance of 354km or approximately Aspen Airport - 5 minutes Eagle County Airport 90 minutes minutes driving time. Aspen Highlands ski season runs from December to April.
SNO-man says
Few can agree on the world's greatest ski resort, but most would have Aspen in their top five, like St Moritz, just because of its reputation. Apart from being a remarkable resort, dripping with wealth, Aspen has great skiing over four mountains, a world-class lift system and more alternative things to do (underground loco pulled silver mine tours for example ) than anywhere else. Aspen Highlands, the last to comre under the joint aspen ownership, offers one of the biggest verticals in North America (Snowmass has the biggest in the US), and one of the world's newst lift systems. A base village is currently undrer construction here. Both it and Aspen Mountain have plenty of expert terrain. Beginners have their own mountain - Tiehack. Snowmass Village is a semi-autonomous resort, 12 miles from Aspen valley. It has immediate access to the most black and double black diamond skiing in area and offers 95% slopeside lodging.
alpine downhill runs to ski in Aspen Highlands USA
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Aspen Highlands Resort & Holiday Info
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| Ski Pass Prices (adult 6 day) | ? - ? |
Traditional Ski Village / Purpose Built Ski Resort |
| Ski Resort Opens | Dec 2011 |
| Ski Resort Closes | Apr 2012 |
| (snow conditions often influence resort opening & closing) |
Ski Area Aspen Highlands Mountain
| Downhill Ski Runs | 135km |
| total length of Aspen Highlands trails |
| Longest lift serve Run | 5.6km |
| longest piste or trail reachable by ski lift |
| Ski Slope Orientation | N, S, E, W |
| direction Aspen Highlands ski areas face |
| Top Altitude | 3559m |
| top station of highest ski lift |
| Bottom Altitude | 2451m |
| bottom of lowest ski run |
| Resort Altitude | 2451m |
| centre of Aspen Highlands ski resort |
| Vertical Drop | 1108m |
| total descent from top lift to bottom piste |
| Skiable Vertical | ^v 1108m |
| can include extra hike up which may be possible above top lift - stat used by some resorts to con us about true "vertical drop" which is lift-served |
Skiing in Aspen Highlands
Skiing Aspen Highlands you'll enjoy 125 pistes and trails and that means approximately 135km of ski runs. Aspen Highlands lifts number 5 with the capacity to uplift 6500 skiers up the mountain per hour. The longest ski run in the American ski resort of Aspen Highlands is over 5.6km long.
Aspen Highlands Ski Area
Aspen Highlands ski area has ?% beginner ski runs or nursery slopes, ?% intermediate, ?% advanced ski slopes and ?% for expert skiers - the most difficult Aspen Highlands piste is the ?km Go-Go Gully, Highland Bowl run, with a steepness/slope angle of 48%. You can't ski Aspen Highlands after dark.
Aspen Highlands for skiing gets 3 stars out of 5 overall
Aspen Highlands Apres Ski
The apres ski Aspen Highlands scene and off-slope or "non-skier" activities include:
30 apres ski bars 100 restaurants 0 bowling 5 night club 3 cinema 1 billiards / pool 0 games room 1 concert 5 indoor swimming 4 outdoor heated pools 80 saunas 80 hot tubs 0 solariums 0 masseurs 1 indoor ice skating 2 outdoor ice skating 5 indoor sports centre 0 indoor tennis 0 squash racquetball 1 sleigh rides 1 ballooning 0 horse riding 0 prepare winter walks 0 climbing 1 golf 0 fishing 2 museum 0 library Plus these additional apres ski facilities Art Galleries (45), Back Country Skiing, Ballooning, Concerts, Curling, Nature Tours, Silver Mine Tours by Underground Train, Snowcat Tours, Speed Skiing, Theatre (3) , Wildlife Interpretive Center, (Facilities such as Indoor Swimming Pools in many Hotel.
Aspen Highlands for apres ski gets 5 stars out of 5 overall
More Aspen Highlands Snow Ski Area and Resort Information
Aspen Highlands resort - ski Aspen Highlands by any other name
The American ski resort of Aspen Highlands ski resort is also known as Aspen, Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk, Snowmass, Tiehack and has the following common misspellings:
Aspen Highlands ski area has ski slopes which face N, S, E, W
The direction which the various Aspen Highlands ski slopes face can make or break your skiing or snowboarding holiday. If you want to guarantee good snow and ski conditions, you should choose a resort with ski slopes which face the right way for the time of year you're travelling.
- In the coldest winter months of January and February you need a ski resort with some sunny south facing ski slopes, so your days on the snow doesn't feel like a polar expedition. Conversely, in the warmest spring skiing months of March and especially April, a ski resort with some cool and shady north facing slopes will ensure you're not skiing on slush, but benefitting from best late season snow. The best ski resorts have ski areas and slopes which face in all directions so that you're guaranteed greating skiing whatever the weather. Aspen Highlands ski resort has ski slopes facing N, S, E, W.
Aspen Highlands for snow gets 4 stars out of 5 overall