SKI KEYSTONE. Pure. Simple. Pleasure.
The best way to experience a Rocky Mountain ski vacation is by visiting
Keystone Resort, Colorado. Keystone has three mountains and two villages to travel
around. Dercum Mountain is great for beginners and intermediates, while
intermediates and advanced riders will love North Peak an the Outback.
Keystone also features the biggest night skiing in Colorado. Keystone also
has snowtubing, sleigh rids ,and ice skating. During the summer months,
ther's whitewater raftingt,horseback riding,hiking,mountain biking and
festivals.
No matter what time of year you decide to visit Keystone, you will
experience a lifetime of memories. In fact, you'll want to visit again and
again.
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With Keystone's three mountains (most places would be happy to have any one of
them), there's skiing and riding for everyone. Keystone boasts bumps, glades,
bowls, steeps, groomed trails, and terrain parks. That's right. The expanded
A51 Terrain Park is back with new fun boxes and more hits, along with the
reconfigured beginner park, A51 Incubator. This is the place to be for the
newest freeskiers and freeriders that want to learn and practice technique
before progressing to the bigger features. Need the skills to hang in the
park? Keystone University offers lessons to help skiers and riders along on
the learning curve.
For those winter sports enthusiasts that just aren't ready to call it a day
when the sun goes down, don't worry. Keystone owns the night. Keystone has
bragging rights as Colorado's largest night skiing operation. With the entire
66-acre A51 under lights, the park is now one of the largest night parks in
North America. In addition, there's 15 trails and our tubing hill, Adventure
Point, all lit up so you can ski, ride, tube or snowbike to your heart's
content,or 8 p.m., whichever comes first.
Mountain Biking at Keystone- World Class Downhill and Hundreds of Miles of
Trails
The Keystone Bike Track consists of some of the country's best downhill trails
with progressive terrain for riders of all abilities. Take your bike up a
chairlift and gain access to some of Colorado's most exhilarating expert
downhill challenges with rock gardens, rock drops and high-speed features.
Beginner and intermediate bikers can enjoy roller coaster rides over bridges
and berms without the steepness or rock gardens you'll find in other areas of
the park.
And, Keystone is the hub for hundreds of miles of world-class single track.
The Keystone Bike Park trails combined with the trails branching from the
Colorado Trail provide seemingly endless riding opportunities.
Keystone Takes Golf to New Elevations
Golf in the Colorado Rockies couldn't get any better than what Keystone has to
offer at Keystone Ranch and The River Course. But if you find 36 holes on your
own is not enough, try a clinic to perfect your short game - a free activity
included on the Adventure Passport. Take advantage of the affordable golf and
lodging packages at Keystone and play our championship golf courses that
overlook picturesque Dillon Reservoir, the Continental Divide, and majestic
Buffalo Mountain. Keystone Resort received three consecutive Silver Medals
from Golf Magazine as one of America's Best Golf Resorts and was named as one
of the nation's Top 75 Golf Resorts by Golf Digest.
Keystone Ranch Golf Course
This course is known not only for its challenging holes, but also for the
views. With vistas of the Gore Range, the Keystone Ranch Golf Course winds
through lodgepole pines, around sage meadows and across a nine-acre lake. It
is widely regarded as one of the most spectacular courses in the country.
Robert Trent Jones, Jr. was the mastermind behind the par-72 course, which
takes a Scottish links-style design on the front nine and a traditional
mountain valley layout on the back nine. A historic ranch homestead lies at
the center of the golf course, housing a AAA Four-Diamond TM restaurant and
the golf clubhouse.
The River Course at Keystone
The highly acclaimed River Course premiered in 2000 and six years of play have
made it that much better. Not only has the course grown into its setting, but
its fairways and greens have also matured. The first tee features a 100-foot
drop, while the rest of the front nine provides water hazards and wide, open
fairways. The back nine features dramatic elevation changes and views of Lake
Dillon, the Gore Range and Buffalo Mountain.
Golf course architects Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry designed The River
Course with environmental sensitivity and playability in mind. They preserved
wildlife corridors and wetlands, while minimizing runoff and erosion and
incorporating native plants. And they included five sets of tee boxes on every
hole. Both golfers and native wildlife have benefited from the thoughtful
design of The River Course.
(all photos of Keystone Resort courtesy of Vail Resorts, Inc.) |