Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain

Snowmass will open Thanksgiving Day  for daily operations on 20 trails across 570 acres of terrain Thursday, Nov. 22.

Open terrain will include The Big Burn, Max Park, Powerline Glades, Sneaky’s Glades, Lunch line, Upper Scooper and Lower Hals to the bottom of Village Express. Elk Camp chair will provide access to Bull Run, Grey Wolf, Sandy Park, Bear Bottom, Gunner’s View and the Elk Camp Meadows Beginner area. Terrain will be accessed by the following chairlifts: Village Express, Sam’s Knob, Big Burn, Elk Camp Gondola, Elk Camp Lift, Meadows Lift, Sky Cab, Meadows Carpet and Treehouse Carpet.

Snowmass Tamarack. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.
Snowmass Tamarack. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.

“With over 500 acres of terrain open we are bound to have a great holiday weekend on the hill,” says Katie Ertl, senior vice president of mountain operations. “And with more snow in the forecast for opening day and later this week we will continue to open more terrain as conditions improve.”

Elk Camp restaurant and Sam’s Smokehouse will be open for the season, and Up 4 Pizza will be open Thursday, Nov. 22-Sunday, Nov. 25 until daily operations begin Dec. 6.

The Breathtaker Alpine Coaster will be up-and-running for daily sessions.

Beginning Nov. 22, through Dec. 14, lift tickets are $139 per day for adults and $92 for children, teens and seniors. Partial-day tickets for adults are $93 and $61 for children, teens and seniors. Children six and under ski for free.

Ticket offices are currently open at the base of Aspen Mountain and at the Snowmass Base Village Gondola ticket office. The Snowmass Pavilion, the Snowmass Two Creeks and the Snowmass Treehouse ticket offices will open Nov. 22.

The new 4,400 square-foot Four Mountain Sports store located in Snowmass Base Village will debut with ski and snowboard rentals as well as retail clothing and accessories. The Four Mountain Sports retail store adjacent to the Elk Camp gondola as well as the Four Mountain Sports/D&E store on the Snowmass Mall will also be open.

A snowboarder comes down in Snowmass. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.
A snowboarder comes down in Snowmass. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.

For skiers and riders looking to take a lesson at Snowmass, the Ski & Snowboard Schools will be offering children’s group lessons (all ages and abilities), adult group lessons (all abilities) and private lessons as well as childcare out of the Treehouse Kids’ Adventure Center.

Snowmass operations will run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk are scheduled to open Saturday, Dec. 8.

Snowmass with the last light of the day. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.
Snowmass with the last light of the day. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.

For more information about Aspen Snowmass, visit www.aspensnowmass.com or call (800) 525-6200. Follow Aspen Snowmass @aspensnowmass on Twitter and Instagram, or at www.facebook.com/aspensnowmass.

About Aspen Skiing Company

Aspen Skiing Company (ASC), based in Aspen, Colo., operates the four mountains in the Aspen Snowmass area – Snowmass, Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk. In addition, ASC owns and operates the award-winning Ski & Snowboard Schools of Aspen Snowmass, a collection of rental and retail shops titled Four Mountain Sports and a hospitality division that includes the five-star, five-diamond property, The Little Nell and three contemporary Limelight Hotels, one based in the core of Aspen, one at the base of Snowmass Mountain, and the other in Ketchum, Idaho. In its current form, ASC is a values-driven company that is grounded within the core values of: Live Passionately, Awaken the Spirit, Elevate Community and Honor Place. Aspen Snowmass is accessible by two of the most convenient airports in the mountains – Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (ASE) (3 miles from Aspen) and Eagle County Airport (EGE) (70 miles from Aspen). For more information about Aspen Snowmass, visit www.aspensnowmass.com or call (800) 525-6200. Follow Aspen Snowmass @aspensnowmass on Twitter and Instagram or at www.facebook.com/aspensnowmass.

A stop of a bit of lunch. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.
A stop of a bit of lunch. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.

The-Ski-GURU TRAVEL can plan your holidays including booking your Eurotunnel trip, lodging, lift tickets, rentals, ski school, and all you need for an excellent vacation. Go to https://www.the-ski-guru.com/traveland upload your information – this page will be updated soon with more travel ideas.

You can start thinking about your trip, by reading the articles on the Planning your Ski Trip tab.  Or how to pack for your family ski trip. Take advantage now of having one kids ski pass for free, courtesy of MySwitzerland. If taking your furry friend abroad to the continent, read about the new Pet Travel Scheme update from DEFRA. Or our last news on equipment as seen at the London Ski Show. Also, the new range of skis of Black Crows, one of our favourite brands. Lots of snow makes you wonder how the resorts deal with the avalanche danger. Here you can read the interview to Coco Torres, former Head of Operations of Las Leñas, in Argentina, as how they dealt with avalanches at the resort. 

Relaxing those tired legs in a chairlift, a pity that it goes fast now! Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.
Relaxing those tired legs in a chairlift, a pity that it goes fast now! Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.

Or perhaps you may choose to read the Ski Resort NewsSki Passes News, and the Must-Read Guides to Zermatt,  CourmayeurVal di Fiemme and Crans-Montana. Coming soon will be the guides to Lech and St Anton. Or see an amazing heli flight over the Mont Blanc Massif. Also see tips on how not to be scammed when booking a ski chalet.

You can also read what’s new at Les Trois Vallées and the last article on what is new at the Tirol ski areas,  in 3 Zinnen Dolomites ,  in Adelboden, Lenk and Kandertal, in Gstaad, in Chamonix,  in Georgia’s Gudauri Resort and in the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn. And how the US Ski Team has chosen Alpe Cimbra to train for the following four ski seasons as their European home.

Coming up from Snowmass Village- lots of terrain to ski, Snowmass is very wide and have lots of options to keep you entertained. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.
Coming up from Snowmass Village- lots of terrain to ski, Snowmass is very wide and have lots of options to keep you entertained. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company.

Or check how Cairngorm Mountain might not run its funicular this coming season and how that can affect the region. And the terrible storms and gails that provoked havoc to Trentino Alto-Adige and Belluno provinces in Northern Italy. 

Thankfully Val di Fassa is ready for opening December 6 as stated here. And the roof of the Rifugio Comici has been fixed in no time and is ready for the start of the ski season in Val Gardena on 6th December. Sudtirol ski areas are ready to start soon and their famous Christmas markets will kick off too. And Cortina D’Ampezzo is getting ready for this winter and the 2021 World Ski Championships. 

Also, you can read how Grandvalira will be staying together as one lift ticket company and how they are adding Ordino Arcalis to  this offer. And also read how someone tried to sabotage some lifts in Vallnord’s Pal Arinsal.  Or read about the latest investments in Whistler Blackcomb. Or see how Taos is going against the industry trend, and instead of merging with the two biggest oligopolies in skiing at the moment, it goes and buys an airline to get more bums in resort. Or how Jackson Hole is appealing to families and beginners – it is not only a resort for expert skiers anymore. Another great area for families is Stubaital in the Tirol.

Snowmass' fireworks. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain.
Snowmass’ fireworks. Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain.

If you want to salivate and think of snow, see our snow report from last weekend here. Or see how Aspen Snowmass has started its snowmaking operation.  They are planning to open Aspen Mountain early. You can keep up to date on how are the sales for the EPIC and IKON passes are doing here. Read how Emma, the first Digital Mountain Assistant, is launched in Keystone now and will be rolled to eight other resorts this season. And even read about the new incorporation to the IKON Pass: Valle Nevado. Here is also a post on the South American resorts.  

Or check out how now with the EPIC Pass you can ski in Europe, specifically in Les Trois Vallées and the resorts of Skirama Dolomiti in Trentino’s Italy. Or see our review of L’Héliopic Hotel Sweet & Spa if thinking in staying in Chamonix this winter.

And see how the big players in the business, Vail Resorts and Aspen, part of Alterra Mountain Company, are seeing how to defend climate change with a bit of social responsibility.

Featured Image: Snowmass Opens Thanksgiving Day with 570 Acres of Terrain. Photo: Aspen Skiing Company. 

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