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Colorado/Rocky Mountain vacation home...Where would you buy?
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:43 pm
If you were well off financially with a $15 mill total in the bank and had a 5 million dollar budget for a vacation (or full time) home in any Colorado ski/mountain town, where would you buy? The criteria is not only buying where you have great ski resort access but finding a place that has great golf courses, great hiking, great biking, great fishing, great scenery, great nearby year round resorts, great restaurants and bars and music. I'm curious what the absolute best year round location in the Colorado mountains.
Personally, I'm thinking the Vail/ Beaver Creek area may have the best combination of great central location and close proximity to all of the above activities. Plus you're within a couple hours drive of the other good resorts. Where would you buy?
Personally, I'm thinking the Vail/ Beaver Creek area may have the best combination of great central location and close proximity to all of the above activities. Plus you're within a couple hours drive of the other good resorts. Where would you buy?
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Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:44 pm to Govt Tide
Ski-in, Ski-out on Keystone or Breckinridge
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:46 pm to Govt Tide
so you like to smoke weed, huh?
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:48 pm to Govt Tide
If you are into night life, etc. your best bet would probably be one of the fancier resort towns, like vail or beaver creek...
my favorite ski town however, is steamboat springs...I really enjoy the old ranch town character that exists there and am very familiar with the hunting and fishing opportunities that exist in the surrounding area...
my favorite ski town however, is steamboat springs...I really enjoy the old ranch town character that exists there and am very familiar with the hunting and fishing opportunities that exist in the surrounding area...
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:49 pm to genro
Night skiing was awesome at Keystone. Breckinridge has good skiing but I wonder what it's like in the spring and summer. Vail sounded intriguing to me because it has Cordillera Ranch resort nearby and 3 of the top 6 or 7 best public golf courses in Colorado.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:54 pm to Turkey_Creek_Tiger
I don't even smoke cigarettes much less weed but I guess I could legally do so if I could afford such a place. I do like good craft beer and an occasional whisky drink though. I'm just getting ideas if I ever win the lottery. 
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:54 pm to Govt Tide
Aspen.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:55 pm to Govt Tide
The Winter Park area. Not as hip as the other places but not as a expensive either.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:55 pm to Govt Tide
Telluride
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:57 pm to Govt Tide
quote:You don't have to smoke. They have edibles.
I don't even smoke cigarettes much less weed but I guess I could legally do so if I could afford such a place.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:57 pm to Govt Tide
Keystone. It's only 6 miles from Lake Dillon where you can sail, kayak or use motorboat. Perfect combination of summer/ winter activities for me. Just got back from a trip there. Posted pics in a recent thread on OB.
Edit. LINK to my OB pic thread
Edit. LINK to my OB pic thread
This post was edited on 7/17/14 at 10:05 pm
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:59 pm to Govt Tide
A cabin located in the Sawtooth mountains, ID.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:59 pm to Grizzley
Aspen is incredibly nice but real estate is insanely expensive. Just a cursory look at real estate prices show you get a lot more house in the Vail area as opposed to a much smaller home for the same price in Aspen. That takes away a little bit of Aspen's appeal.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 9:59 pm to La Place Mike
quote:Love this too.
The Winter Park area.
I'm not much into the "ski resort culture". I like to ski. I'm tired at the end of the day and just want to lay by the fire with my woman. Once during the trip maybe take a day break from skiing and go fly fishing or snowmobiling. That's a great ski trip to me.
Big Sky is my favorite, because it has the best uncrowded powdery skiing. Don't care about nightlife.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 10:00 pm to genro
Don't forget Steamboat, Willie.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 10:03 pm to tigers win2
Telluride
Posted on 7/17/14 at 10:04 pm to genro
Went to Winter Park with a group of fraternity brother's and girlfriends on Spring Break in college. One of the girlfriends was from Denver and her family had a condo about 30 minutes away in Grand Lake, CO. Winter Park is an awesome underrated resort. Tons of diverse skiable terrain. Not all that far from Rocky Mountain National Park either.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 10:07 pm to tigerpawl
Steamboat
I've never been but my parents and their friends would go as a big group back in the 80s when I was a kid. They loved that place and went there several years in a row.
I've never been but my parents and their friends would go as a big group back in the 80s when I was a kid. They loved that place and went there several years in a row.
Posted on 7/17/14 at 10:08 pm to Govt Tide
Family use to have a home in Mountain Village (Telluride). Pain in the arse to get to, but less crowded than most CO resorts.
For all around activity plus easy access, you can't go wrong with any of the resorts around Vail, Beaver Creek, Breck, etc
For all around activity plus easy access, you can't go wrong with any of the resorts around Vail, Beaver Creek, Breck, etc
Posted on 7/17/14 at 10:11 pm to Govt Tide
buy several hundred acres in Montana or Idaho and become more of a cross country skier. Buy an RV and travel to the resorts for a week or two at a time for downhill.
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