Breckenridge Colorado
...housand residents in their communities. There is a commercial airport that services United and North West airlines in the area. This makes for a lot of shopping in the town, there are over 258 shops and stores ranging from salons to art galleries and also a variety of bars and dance clubs to choose from there. There are a variety of winter activities that Breckenridge caters to. In the city alone there are three skating rinks; there are also snowmobile rentals, ski and snowboard rentals, horseback trail riding, paragliding lessons and rentals, and trails maintained for nordic training. Snow skiing is by far the biggest attraction to Breckenridge, from snowboarders to skiers the mountain fills up everyday. The snow conditions in this mountain range have a very high snow fall average, with more than 300 inches each year. This makes for Colorado’s longest “ski season” (November thru July). When comparing the ski resort mountain of Breckenridge to Vail’s you see many similarities; both around 2000 ski able acres, they have 3400 feet vertical drop (from base to peak), and total number of ski lifts. There are some differences in these two resorts. Some of the major ones are; if you lodge in Vail the next closest resort is over 100 miles away, the lift tickets are also more than twenty dollars more per person per day at Vail, and if you are driving from the east to ...