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Passionate uphillers applied pressure to representatives from Vail and Beaver Creek resorts and the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday, Dec. 19, at an annual meeting at Cripple Creek Backcountry in Avon. Attendees in a packed...
Beaver Creek is grappling with the loss of one of its strongest leaders, both literally and figuratively, after Gary Shimanowitz, the resort’s longtime director of operations, died suddenly on Friday, Feb. 24.
Downhill skiers enjoyed Beaver Creek’s newest expansion for the first time Monday as the 250-acre beginner area known as McCoy Park opened to the public.
Officials from Vail Resorts and the U.S. Forest Service dig up some wet dirt Thursday morning at the top of the new McCoy Park area at Beaver Creek. From left are Bill Kennedy, Carl Orlowski, Kyle Griffith, Gary Shimanowitz, Nadia Guerriero, Leanne Veldhuis, Carl Eaton, Dan Ramker and Addy McCord. Guerriero, Beaver Creek’s chief operating officer, got to hold on to her gold shovel as a keepsake. Vail Resorts/Special to the Daily Beaver Creek and U.S. Forest Service officials broke ground Thursday on the ski area’s new McCoy Park project, a 250-acre expansion of lift-served terrain that wi...
July 1, 2021, 9:39 pm From left to right, Gary Shimanowitz, Nadia Guerriero, Eagle-Holy Cross District Ranger Leanne Veldhuis, Carl Eaton and Dan Ramker, director of mountain operations at Beaver Creek (David O. Williams photo). Beaver Creek on Thursday broke ground on a 250-acre expansion of beginner and intermediate ski terrain high atop the mountain with expansive views of the Sawatch and Gore Mountain ranges. Its new McCoy Park terrain will include two new quad lifts, 17 new alpine skiing trails and a smaller network of Nordic trails. In all, the expansion, which will be ope...