The Best Intermediate Ski Areas in Colorado

[@SRGSkiing]

00:41 #5: Granby Ranch 01:46 #4: Telluride 03:34 #3: Purgatory 05:44 #2: Breckenridge 07:59 #1: Snowmass Post-edit note: At Snowmass, if you’re skiing the Big Burn blues, you come down and Big Burn has a long line, ski Trestle and take the Sheer Bliss lift. It’ll have less of a line than Big Burn, and it’ll get you right back to the same place Big Burn would have.

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[@lawyh1506]

Thanks for the introduction and really enjoyed watching your videos. Have skied extensively in Europe on all of the piste (blue, red and black) but never really gone off piste, so I guess I would fall under the intermediate category which translates to blues and the few groomed single blacks in the US. If I have bought the Epic pass for the upcoming season for my first ever ski trip in the US and Canada, do you think I should go to Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, Vail, Heavenly and Whistler? Or are there other resorts that would be suitable? I will do that over 2-3 trips from Europe.

[@SRGSkiing]

If you want to challenge yourself, I would highly recommend heading to Vail and doing your first off-piste experience in the back bowls. Otherwise, Heavenly (and Northstar) and Whistler BC aren't bad options.

[@benjaliaanimations9860]

Copper has a decent amount of intermediate runs, with the Timberline, Eagle, and Super Bee pods. I'm surprised it's not on this list.

[@josiahsimmons9866]

I'm even more surprised that Keystone didn't make the cut. Frenchman, Spring dipper, and Flying Dutchman to name a few are amazing. They're long, fast, and don't get too terribly crowded. And Keystone has a few options for blues on every face of the mountain. The blues that I went on at Breckenridge all seemed only about as steep as Schoolmarm, and wider too. Plus you often have to push to get around any of them. I also felt like Breck's blues were comparatively really short and just kinda boring in their layout. No interesting turns or ridges.

[@SRGSkiing]

We felt that Copper's terrain was wayyyy too busy, and Keystone just didn't have enough quantitatively for us

[@blarbkanopcious4243]

@@SRGSkiing …Which is why you included two smaller ski areas on this list

[@SRGSkiing]

@@blarbkanopcious4243 Exactly . . . we're giving you the insider knowledge, not just what you can find on any other channel that just ranks the top 5 most google searched resorts.

[@blarbkanopcious4243]

​@@SRGSkiing That’s great, and I very much appreciate you doing that. My point is just that if you cared about the amount of terrain the resorts have, like you say caused you to not rank Keystone, you would not have put Granby Ranch and Purgatory on the list.

[@blarbkanopcious4243]

Pearless is very rarely groomed at Breckenridge

[@blarbkanopcious4243]

Why is Winter Park not on this list? It has an above-timberline blue bowl, a difficult-to-fund intermediate skier’s paradise that every other ski area on this list just doesn’t have.

[@SRGSkiing]

We didn't like WP because Parsenn is so freakin busy and Vasquez has that awful runout. But I mean at the end of the day, that's just our opinions

[@blarbkanopcious4243]

@@SRGSkiing I mean I’ve never seen it bigger than some of the lifts at Breckenridge. And yeah Big Valley sucks but of course next year that will be greatly ameliorated

[@LongsYt]

4:57 is the video when your brain stopped working

[@josiahsimmons9866]

If keystone isn't on this list I'm rioting... 😉

[@SRGSkiing]

Darn . . . can we get some riot shields first please?