Welcome to one of the most visually spectacular and unique high altitude resorts in North America. Nestling at the end of a stunning box canyon surrounded by the highest concentration of 14,000 foot (4300 meters) peaks in Colorado, the Telluride ski area and its charming former mining town in the state’s southwest corner are well worth making the effort to visit. It is picturesque to the extreme, with colourful Victorian homes, Redstone buildings and a quirky character that draws thousands of visitors a year including such super celebrities as Jerry Seinfeld and Tom Cruise who have long owned homes here. Among Telluride town’s many claims to fame is being 45 minutes from the nearest set of traffic lights.
The ski area receives almost 26 feet (8m) snowfall per season and caters extremely well for experts as well as intermediates and beginners. Telluride is also up there in the elevation stakes: town sits at 8,750 feet (2,667 meters), its airport is the highest in the US, (2764 metres) and the resort’s Gold Hill at 3815 metres is one of the highest lift points in Colorado. Hike-to terrain rises to 4060 metres on Palmyra Peak.
A stand-out feature of Telluride is the free pedestrian gondola, the only one of its type in the US, linking the historic town, slopes and modern Mountain Village on the opposite side of the ski area. The Mountain Village is Telluride’s second community, offering a good deal of ski-in ski-out accommodation and luxe lodging arranged around an attractive pedestrian mall teeming with restaurants, cafes and shops. The gondola negates the need to drive or taxi between town and village while affording spectacular views of the town and the surrounding alpine scenery. It runs daily from 7 am to midnight, and is used by all – from riders to diners heading for San Sophia Station’s lovely Allred’s restaurant and bar overlooking the town, and locals – often with dogs.
Telluride started life as a gold mining town in the 1880s, quickly becoming a thriving hotbed of new wealth. This soon caught the attention of Butch Cassidy who chose to commit his first bank robbery here: on June 24 1889, Cassidy and co. robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank of the equivalent of about $500,000 before fleeing to a hideout in Utah.
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