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First Season New Owners Grand Lake Lodge Colorado’s Favorite Front Porch is set to open under new owners full time June 6th, 2011.  Last summer the Lodge opened for a short time with limited food and hours as a kind of audition for the new owners.  This season will see the Grand Lake Lodge up and running at full steam ser...

Learning to Ski Winter Park, CO Here is out latest ski video here at Winter Park Resort, Colorado’s Favorite.  We are highlighting children and the youngsters learning to swoosh down the hill this segment.  The above video is staring WPLCo’s very own and my very own twins, Nicholas & Willem.  This is Nicholas &am...

Horse Drawn Sleigh Rides Winter Park, CO Looking for some fun for the kids and the whole family? Devil’s Thumb Ranch is offering guests of Winter Park Lodging Company a 10% discount on their interactive feed sleigh rides at their Cabin Creek Stables. The feed sleigh rides are offered at 10:30 am and 3 pm daily. Reser...

Winter Park Resort Ski Rentals Looking to demo some skis?  Want to spend a day trying out some of the latest and greatest skis on the market?  Winter Park Base Rentals and the Mountain Adventure  Center offer some great demo skis and rentals and are very conveniently located in the Winter Park Resort Base. We recentl...

Winter Park Recreation Center Ohhh, the cold has hit us here in Winter Park.  It has been almost too cold to ski, almost.  For the kids though when it dips to the negatives or hoovers around the zero degree mark it may be better to take a day of and let that arctic cold front just move on through. And what to do with that...

Horse Drawn Sleigh Rides in the Colorado Rockies We had a chance to take a sleigh ride here in Winter park a couple of days before Christmas.  What a thrill for the whole family.  Kids, Grandparent and the parents were all a-gag about what a cool experience we had. Our 1400 lb sled was pulled by two 2000 lb horses that we...

Winter Park Resort Powder Skiing Video Man, have we had the snow up here at Winter Park and Mary Jane.  The Pineapple Express moisture pattern has dropped a bunch of snow on us here in the Colorado Rockies.  Winter Park Resort’s snow totals for the year are above 125 inches and Santa hasn’t even been around to hand out hi...

Winter Park Resort New Year’s Eve New Years Eve shall be here shortly, where are you going to celebrate the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011?  Lots of activities to do up here in Winter Park, CO even after the lifts stop running.  And this year New Year’s Eve is on Friday night (that gives you two days to sleep off t...

Powder Skiing at Winter Park and Mary Jane The snow has been just unbelievable so far at Winter Park this year.  And with all that fluffy white comes the oh so awesome powder days of skiing.  Since we have so much early snow it has allowed us to get out fairly often and check out the conditions.  Grade A is what we g...

Nothing can ruin a great day on the slopes like being as cold as a freeze-pop.  Believe me, I’ve learned the importance of dressing properly, as I’m usually hard to keep warm even when I’m not in the mountains.   Jeans and cotton clothing are no longer part of the equation; plus, if you caught wearing jeans on the sl...