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Snowmass is a ski resort located in the Town of Snowmass Village near Aspen, Colorado. The ski area is owned and operated by the Aspen Skiing Company as part of the Aspen/Snowmass complex. It was opened on December 17, 1967 . [1] Snowmass is the largest of the four Aspen/Snowmass mountains, comprising 3,362 acres (1,361 ha).
Snowmass Village is a home rule municipality in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.The population was 3,096 at the 2020 census. [5] A popular winter resort location for skiing and snowboarding, the town is well known as the location of the Snowmass ski area, the largest of the four nearby ski areas operated collectively as Aspen/Snowmass.
Snowmass (sometimes known locally as Old Snowmass) is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office located in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. It is situated in the valley of the Roaring Fork River , near the mouth of Snowmass Creek along State Highway 82 between Aspen and Basalt .
Aspen Snowmass is a winter resort complex located in Pitkin County in western Colorado in the United States. Owned and operated by the Aspen Skiing Company it comprises four skiing / snowboarding areas on four adjacent mountains in the vicinity of the towns of Aspen and Snowmass Village .
A separate chain of Jerry's Restaurants has operated in the western United States since the 1960s. [26] [27] It was founded by Thomas and Jerry Goucher, [28] the latter of whom died in 2005, at the age of 78. [29]
Located about halfway between the cities of Aspen and Snowmass Village, it is frequently considered the easiest skiing mountain in the area. Buttermilk has also been the host to the ESPN Winter X Games multiple times. It contains three ski areas: Tiehack (difficult), Main Buttermilk (regular), and West Buttermilk (easy).
In the following decades, the company opened Buttermilk in 1958 and the Snowmass (originally the Snowmass-at-Aspen Ski Area) in 1967. In 1993 the company assumed ownership and operation of Aspen Highlands , which was founded in 1958 by Colorado Ski Hall of Famer Whip Jones .
Snowmass may refer to: . Snowmass Village, Colorado, a town in Pitkin County, Colorado, U.S. . Snowmass (ski area) Snowmastodon site, an archaeological excavation near the town where well-preserved fossils of mammoths, mastodons, and plants were found in an ancient lakebed (subject of a 2012 Nova documentary)