With Halloween on the cusp you can bet that ski season is just around the next corner. Here’s a list of the planned opening dates for Colorado ski country’s resorts. If mother nature doesn’t cooperate with her own snowfall to make the dates a reality, the assistance of some already-blowing should help these resorts open by the dates posted (but there is always a disclaimer they may fluctuate a little so check with the particular resort before heading out to make sure the shoot-for date actually culminated):

  • Arapahoe Basin – October (day TBD)
  • Aspen Highlands – December 11
  • Aspen Mountain – November 25
  • Buttermilk – December 11
  • Copper – November 5
  • Crested Butte – November 24
  • Echo Mountain – December 1
  • Eldora – November (day TBD)
  • Howelsen – December (day TBD)
  • Loveland – October (day TBD)
  • Monarch – November 24
  • Powderhorn – December 16
  • Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort – November 25
  • Silverton – Unguided Season November; Guided Season January
  • Ski Cooper – November 25-28, December 3-5, December 10-12, open daily after December 17
  • Snowmass – November 25
  • SolVista – December 15
  • Steamboat – November 24
  • Sunlight – December 3
  • Telluride – November 25
  • Winter Park – November 17
  • Wolf Creek – November 5