Winter Park’s New Lift & Staff Housing
Winter Park’s New Lift & Staff Housing
Published : 18-Oct-2023 10:04
Wild Spur Express, a new 6-passenger, high-speed detachable Leitner-Poma lift that can move 2,800 people up the mountain per hour, will give guests a new way to experience Vasquez Ridge terrain when it opens above Winter Park in Colorado (pictured above after weekend snowfall) late next month or early December.
The lift will include a new mid-point loading zone, allowing guests to make quicker laps on upper intermediate and advanced trails.
The Wild Spur Express is also the only lift that serves nearly 285 acres of mostly blue intermediate trails and steeper, more advanced bump runs from its top station.
Winter Park Resort is also investing to try to combat a big issue for ski resort operators – finding staff. Part of the problem was wages, but most have given big rises in recent years, another though is that even with higher income there's still limited affordable accommodation available.
Therefore the Colorado resort has spent $60 million on a brand-new, 330+ bed employee housing complex named Conifer Commons that will open this autumn ahead of the coming season.
The project is one of the largest workforce housing projects to be completed in Colorado this year with the complex located so close to the resort that residents will be able to walk to work and other amenities, including public transportation.
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