Snowmass offers guests incredible views of mountain vistas, in addition to 2.8 million adjacent acres of wilderness, open for activities and exploration. Snowmass offers a wide variety of outdoor activities, 30+ restaurants, 95 percent slopeside lodging, shopping, unique special events and music – all year round. For more information and a complete calendar of events and activities, please visit: www.gosnowmass.com.

HISTORY: Long before skiers and ranchers discovered Snowmass’ verdant Brush Creek Valley, over 150,000 years ago, mammoths, mastodons and other amazing Ice Age creatures roamed Snowmass. 800 years ago, the Ute Indians hunted, fished, and gathered wild foods around the valley. The first non-natives explored the Elk Mountains as early as 1853 during the Gunnison Survey and by the beginning of the 20th century the valley had been settled primarily as a ranching community. In the early 1960’s, Olympic skier Bill Janss envisioned a European-style village and ski area on its slopes and first opened Snowmass to skiers in December 1967.