Third Colorado Ski Area to Open by End of October

Third Colorado ski area to open by end of October

Winter Park is the third Colorado ski area to open for the 2025-2026 season, following Keystone and Arapahoe Basin.

Winter Park poised to become Colorado’s third ski area to open for the season

Winter Park will open for skiing and riding on Friday, tying the earliest season debut in its 87-year history. Winter Park also opened on Halloween in 2022.

Poll results: When do you predict opening day will be at Winter Park Resort?

245 Sky-Hi News readers attempted to guess opening week at Winter Park Resort. The most popular choice, Nov. 8-14, was over a week late. The correct answer, Oct. 25-31, received only 5.7% of the vote. Winter Park Resort announced today that they will open on Halloween for the 2025-26 season. 245 Sky-Hi News readers attempted to guess opening week at Winter Park Resort for the 2025-26 season.Sky-Hi News poll

Snowmaking off to a fast start, even as Mother Nature takes her time: Ski resorts crank up the snow guns, thanks to ‘wet-bulb’ weather and Denver Water

Click the link to read the article on the Denver Water website (Todd Hartman): October 27, 2025 The snow season in Colorado’s high country is off to a slow start, but snowmaking at the ski resorts? That’s going gangbusters. As October draws to a close, ski resorts are cranking out the snow due to a combination of the resorts’ annual race to opening day, this year’s unusually compressed window for the right meteorological conditions, and long-st…