Colorado Ski Resorts Offer Summer Fun

The Colorado mountains are a fabulous destination, winter or summer. Here are some tempting offers designed to entice you to spend some time there this summer.

Beaver Creek Lodge

Beaver Creek Lodge, a luxury all-suite, four diamond boutique hotel is offering some imaginative two night theme packages. All include complimentary valet parking and a late check-out (when available), deluxe accommodations, breakfast and much more. You can choose from these options: Fish Tales for fly fishing enthusiasts, Putter’s Peak for golf enthusiasts/business traveler, He Said, She Said for couples, Great Expectations for expecting couples, Eat, Drink & Be Merry for Cooking Enthusiasts, Take a Hike! for adventure lovers, Family Affair for family fun and Girls Gone Wild West!, a women’s/girlfriend getaway. And while you’re there, you can enjoy the standard room features such as cozy pillow-top mattresses, down comforters, LCD flat screen TVs, DVD/CD players, and Bose® Wave® CD radios. There’s also a fitness center, outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna and steam room, concierge and valet parking and an array of outdoor and leisure activities, including skiing, golf, mountain biking, kayaking and hiking.

Breckenridge Summer Adventure Package

Families or groups of four can stay in Breckenridge for four nights, take a half-day whitewater rafting trip in Browns Canyon, go on a two hour ATV tour of the Ten Mile Range, experience an hour and a half horseback ride through the Colorado Rocky Mountains and take an authentic gold mine tour at the historic Country Boy Mine.

Country Boy Tourist Mine

Gold helped shape Colorado's history. Today, the state’s 13 tourist mines provide an instructional glimpse into the past and the incredible hardships miners faced in search of riches. One of these, Country Boy Mine, was restored with new timbers, lights and ventilation in the mid 1990s and is open to visitors, who venture more than 1,000 feet underground into the past. The mine looks feels and smells very similar to the way it was more than 100 years ago. After your tour, you can pan for gold and “shoot the chute”, a slide down a 55 foot ore chute. And be sure and pet the mine’s baby burro before you leave.

beavercreeklodge.net | 970-845-9800.

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Edited by Ellen Schofield