The app also includes a village map, real time weather updates, and transportation information. Download for iPhone Download for Android. Winter Parking Whether you're enjoying an encore performance at the Vilar Performing Arts Center, or tasting exquisite desserts at one of our restaurants, or looking for time to try your feet at moonlight ice skating, there are endless reasons to explore just a little bit longer.
See Parking Options. However, he was unable to stop Vail Associates from securing the authority to develop Beaver Creek Resort. The fierce opposition and proliferation of environmental law that hampered the development of Beaver Creek discouraged ski corporations from developing additional resorts.
Beaver Creek was the last major ski area to be constructed in the West. Groundbreaking for Beaver Creek Resort took place in July , leading into its inaugural ski season, in On December 15, , Beaver Creek Resort opened for skiing with six chairlifts and a slope-side lodge. A few years later, the resort saw the opening of Beaver Creek Golf Club, and throughout the next few decades various improvements and upgrades were made both on and off the ski area.
Vail and Beaver Creek would go on to host the Ski Championships again in and Today, Beaver Creek Resort boasts 1, skiable acres and twenty-five chairlifts, and the resort receives an average annual snowfall of inches. In fact, it was quite adversarial. The modern environmentalist movement had just come into full bloom, and they were determined to prevent any further development of the Western slope into ski resorts. Luckily, the two sides were eventually able to accommodate each other, and now we have world class ski resorts such as Beaver Creek, that are also environmentally friendly, and go the extra mile to preserve the natural beauty of its surroundings.
Construction of Beaver Creek started in , with the resort open for its first ski season on December 15 th , At the time, there were only 6 chair lifts available, and a small shed for ticket sales, plus a little lodge at the foot of the mountains. These days of course, Beaver Creek hosts some of the most prestigious names in retail and real estate, and luxury hotels of the highest order.
Many even say, Beaver Creek has become more of a prestigious destination to visit than both Aspen and Vail. Townsend is said to have fancied the name Avondale for the area. At some point, Avon became its official name. Early pioneers, including Townsend, grew hay and raised cattle to feed hungry miners in nearby Red Cliff.
Homesteaders also worked together to dig essential irrigation ditches, sometimes using dynamite and a horse-drawn scoop called a fresno, some of which still supply irrigating water to Avon today. Box cars stood at the Avon Depot, loaded with ice from the Minturn ice house the ice had been cut the preceding winter at Pando up near Tennessee Pass and readied for freshly cut lettuce heads delivered in crates by farmers and their ranch hands including wives.
These refrigerated rail cars shipped Avon crops as far as the east coast providing fresh lettuce weeks after the nation's standard lettuce harvest was gone. Through the years Avon land produced cattle, hay, potatoes, peas, oats and, starting in the 's, sheep. By this time most of Avon's homesteading families were long gone but descendants of William Nottingham had stayed on and owned and operated nearly all of the land called Avon.
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