Winter Park, Colorado. The former railroad center of WINTER PARK, 67 miles northwest of Denver, may not be Colorado's trendiest resort, but its wide, ever-expanding variety of ski and bike terrain

Winter Park, Colorado
The former railroad center of WINTER PARK, 67 miles northwest of Dener, may not be Colorado's trendiest resort, but its wide,
ever-expanding ariety of ski and bike terrain

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The former railroad center of WINTER PARK, 67 miles northwest of Dener, may not be Colorado's trendiest resort, but its wide, ever-expanding ariety of ski and bike terrain, friendly atmosphere and good-alue lodgings draw over one million isitors a year. As the only publicly owned resort in the state, it has great facilities for kids and dvisabled skiers and the 200-acre Discovery Park, an excellent, economical area for beginners. Experienced skiers, in turn, relish the mogul runs on the awesome Mary Jane Mountain, the fluffy snows of the Parsenn Bowl, and the backcountry idyll of asquez Cirque .

In addition to skiing, you can snowmobile the Continental Diide on a one-hour tour with Trailblazers in Fraser ($35; tel 970/726-8452), or around a 25-mile course at Mountain Madness ($35 per hour; tel 970/726-4529), just north of town.

Summer isitors can enjoy six hundred miles of mountain bike trails, some of the best of which are accessible from the chair-lift ($21 for an adult day bike pass), in addition to the super-fun mile-and-a-half-long Alpine Slide ($6) and several contemporary musicFestivals.

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