Colorado Ski Resort Opening Days

With the season’s first snow set to move into the Colorado high country and snow-making underway, the ski and snowboard season is getting closer.

Last year, Wolf Creek Ski Area became the first in the state to open, on Oct. 13, after getting 20 inches of early-season snow.

Arapahoe Basin Ski Area and Loveland Ski Area usually battle to be the first in the state to open. Last year, Arapahoe Basin opened on Oct. 19 and Loveland opened the next day.

Both have already started making snow after one of the most epic ski and snowboard seasons in the Colorado mountains in recent memory.

Here is a list of projected opening dates for Colorado resorts.

Planned Opening Date Ski Resort

Mid-October Arapahoe Basin

Mid-October Loveland

October TBD Keystone

November 1 Wolf Creek

November 8 Copper Mountain

November 8 Breckenridge

November 13 Winter Park

November 15 Vail Mountain

November 15 Eldora

November 22 Monarch

November 23 Purgatory

November 23 Steamboat

November 27 Beaver Creek

November 27 Crested Butte

November 28 Aspen Snowmass

November 28 Aspen Mountain

November 28 Telluride

November 29 Echo Mountain

November 24 Howelsen Hill

December 7 Aspen Highlands

December 7 Buttermilk

December 7 Ski Cooper

December 13 Granby Ranch

December 13 Powderhorn

December 13 Sunlight

December 14 Kendall Mountain

December 21 Hesperus

December 26 Silverton