Choo choo, choo choo ch’boogie. The Winter Park Ski train opens its 68th season of ferrying skiers from tracks to trails on Dec. 27. Upwards of 500 skiers, snowboarders and sightseers ride the train from Denver’s downtown Union Station to the base of Winter Park Resort on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and some Thursdays through the…
Heading to Denver next year for the Democratic National Convention? Flying into town on your way to the mountains? Whatever brings you to the Mile High City, be sure to check out the 2008 Gabby Gourmet Restaurant Guide before going out to eat. The 2008 version of the definitive guide to dining in greater Denver…
The beauty of Beaver Creek Resort’s newest development, the Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa, isn’t in its architecture, services or amenities, but in its location. The luxury hotel, to open next year, is being built next to the ski resort’s new Riverfront Express Gondola that will connect hotel guests and those in the town of…
Don’t ski but want to see what Aspen is all about? Take advantage of the Touch the Sky Packageat the hip Sky Hotel before the rates rise and the town fills with board-toting tourists. The sleek, slope-side hotel is offering deluxe accommodations for two and complimentary valet parking for $149 through Nov. 21 – less…
New boutique wine shops seem to open with more and more frequency, each offering fine wines, personable and knowledgeable staff, tasting bars and the same muted décor that makes it hard to distinguish one from another. Sip Fine Wine & Spirits, Denver’s newest wine shop, tries to stand above the competition by virtue of its…
Vail Resorts wants to keep its guests in tip-top shape for a day on the slopes. To do so, the company will now serve natural, hormone-free meats and organic dairy products in its on-mountain restaurants at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone resorts in Colorado, Heavenly in California and restaurants in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National…
Snow fell briefly this morning outside my office window here in the Rocky Mountains, turning thoughts of golf to skiing or snowboarding and the mind-numbing process of deciding what lift ticket products to buy: season passes, multi-day passes, multi-mountain passes, buddy passes, and on and on and on. Crested Butte Mountain Resort soothes such brain…
Denver International Airport is going greener. The nation’s fifth-busiest airport has announced plans for a 2 megawatt solar energy system to generate 3.5 million kilowatt hours of clean energy each year – about half the power needed to run the airport’s terminal-connecting underground train system. The project, to be operational by the middle of next…
More than four years after plans were announced for a Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences high-rise in the heart of downtown Denver’s central business district, developers broke ground this week on the $300 million project that is expected to be complete by early 2010. The 45-floor structure will be one of the tallest buildings…
If it were any higher, you’d be asking for supplemental oxygen. Winter Park Resort in Colorado is installing North America’s highest high-speed, six-person chairlift to quickly move guests to the top of Parsenn Bowl, located at a breath-taking 12,060 feet above sea level. The Panoramic Express, the resort’s third new chairlift installation in as many…
Visitors to the Bar Lazy J Guest Ranch near Parshall, Colorado, can make sure their muscles appreciate a good long soak or soothing massage by hopping in the saddle for trail rides that end at a hot springs spa a few miles away. Guests head out on horseback for a couple-hour ride to a jaw-dropping…
Walk into the Oxford Hotel in Denver’s Lower Downtown (“LoDo”) and take a step back in time. Settle into the legendary Cruise Room bar and be transported back about 70 years to the Art Deco era when architectural lines were clean and cocktails were classic. Leave the bar and cross into the grand lobby to…