Thanksgiving Weekend Snow Piles Up Across Colorado

Mother Nature delivered for Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) member ski areas over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, with the majority measuring double digit storm totals and all ski areas receiving significant snowfall. Weather forecasts are calling for additional snowfall later this week through the weekend and into early December.

Highlights included over 20 inches at Arapahoe Basin, which is opening its new Beavers terrain today, Loveland Ski Area and Cooper. Double digit totals were measured at Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Steamboat, Monarch, Copper Mountain, Eldora and Winter Park. Other ski areas receiving significant snowfall included Sunlight, which had its earliest ever opening on Friday Nov. 23, Telluride, Wolf Creek, and Purgatory.

Substantial October and November snowfall has allowed ski areas across Colorado to open early for the season with many opening additional terrain during the holiday weekend. More terrain openings are expected throughout the week and weekend.

Links to Resort Webcams:

• Arapahoe Basin http://bit.ly/1GNjD7l
• Aspen Highlands http://bit.ly/2fMbDYj
• Aspen Mountain http://bit.ly/1GiRPHE
• Buttermilk http://bit.ly/2fol9R2
• Cooper http://bit.ly/2RE5JLX
• Copper Mountain http://bit.ly/2fD7iZX
• Eldora Mountain Resort http://bit.ly/2zlpt09
• Granby Ranch http://bit.ly/2EWCTCR
• Loveland Ski Area http://bit.ly/2g3WF0E
• Monarch Mountain http://bit.ly/2g5iGwn
• Powderhorn http://bit.ly/1LMoa5T
• Purgatory Resort http://bit.ly/2fMfsg6
• Snowmass http://bit.ly/1P4XOSK
• Steamboat http://bit.ly/2g3IY3Z
• Sunlight Mountain Resort http://bit.ly/2fMemkP
• Telluride Ski Resort http://bit.ly/2eNN5RX
• Winter Park Resort http://bit.ly/2g3DTsF
• Wolf Creek Ski Area http://bit.ly/2zo5xd2

Colorado Ski Country USA Ski Areas Listed by Opening Date:                      

• October 13                                Wolf Creek (Weekends only – Opening for the season November 9)
• October 19                                Arapahoe Basin
• October 20                                Loveland
• November 7                              Eldora
• November 14                            Winter Park
• November 16                            Copper Mountain
• November 17                            Purgatory
• November 21                            Monarch
• November 21                            Steamboat
• November 22                            Aspen Mountain
• November 22                            Snowmass
• November 22                            Telluride
• November 23                            Cooper
• November 23                            Sunlight
• November 24                            Howelsen Hill
• November 24                            Silverton
• December 7                              Kendall Mountain
• December 8                              Aspen Highlands
• December 8                              Buttermilk
• December 14                            Granby Ranch
• December 14                            Powderhorn
• December 21                            Hesperus