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Showing 4 posts tagged "gondola"
Construction Season
Winter Park's $2 Billion Gamble: A Town Gondola, a Mountain Overhaul, and the End of Gemini Express
Colorado's most ambitious resort masterplan wants to double a town, expand 344 acres of terrain, and connect everything with a two-mile gondola. Construction could start this summer.
May 13, 20269 min readwinter-park, gondola, construction-season, alterra, masterplan, gemini-express, vasquez-mountain, colorado, i-70, connect-winter-park
Construction Season
Sugar Bowl Is Tearing Out Its Gondola. You Can Buy the Old One for $10,000.
The West Coast's first gondola resort is spending $100 million to rebuild itself -- starting with the 1982 cabins that carried a generation of Tahoe skiers.
May 12, 20268 min readsugar-bowl, gondola, construction-season, tahoe, doppelmayr, donner-summit, renovation, d-line
Construction Season
Deer Valley Just Doubled. Here's What 10 New Lifts and $5 Billion Actually Look Like.
The largest ski resort expansion in North America is already open -- and they're not even close to done.
May 11, 20269 min readdeer-valley, expansion, lifts, gondola, construction-season, east-village, park-city, 2034-olympics, doppelmayr
Lift & Infrastructure
Gondola One: Vail Dropped $20 Million on a Lift and It Was Actually Worth It
A deep dive into the numbers, engineering, and impact of Vail's flagship gondola.
Jan 20, 20269 min readvail, gondola, doppelmayr, lift-upgrade