Fascinating Winter Park Facts

In 1939, Winter Park opened with a J-bar tow and $1 lift tickets. No word on how much Winter Park lodging rental units cost back in those days, or whether luxury accommodations were available.

In Winter Park’s first ski season, 1939-1940, approximately 10,000 skier visit days were recorded. Today, Winter Park hosts close to 1 million skier visits per season, with many guests choosing to stay overnight in Winter Park lodging rental units.

During ski season, Winter Park resort opens at 9:00 a.m. on weekdays and 8:30 a.m. on weekends. Be first in line at the lifts, and you’ll enjoy miles of corduroy or inches of powder. Stay at our convenient Winter Park lodging units in downtown Winter Park, and you’ll avoid the headache of an I-70 drive.

Winter Park Resort is owned by the city of Denver, Colorado, which leases the management and operations of the ski area to Intrawest Resorts.

Winter Park Resort’s lift capacity is more than 35,000 people per hour, but stay for a long weekend at one of our Winter Park lodging rentals, and in the early hours of Monday morning, you’ll feel like you’re the only one on the mountain.

Technically, Winter Park skiing could well be called "Denver skiing," because the city of Denver founded the resort in the 1940s and continues to own the ski area, in a joint partnership with Intrawest.