Best Places to Ski and Snowboard for Families

December 10, 2024

Beaver Creek is the perfect ski destination for your family and a great choice for an unforgettable family winter getaway in Colorado. The resort offers an abundance of scenic, groomed and easily accessible beginner-friendly terrain across three learning areas. Coupled with an award-winning ski school, and a charming village experience with loads of kid-focused activities, Beaver Creek makes skiing with your little ones both fun and stress-free. Explore each of these unique areas and experience why this Colorado gem is a favorite family mountain escape.

Beaver Creek’s Signature Parks Collection is built for beginner and intermediate skiers and snowboarders to have more terrain for their skill level than ever before, which means more terrain for families than ever before. The three dedicated learning areas provide beginner terrain that mimics the setting of advanced trails, granting guests of all ski levels a chance to explore more of our mountain on terrain they are comfortable skiing.

With three progressive parks, the Signature Parks Collection offers an extraordinary experience for families so everyone can feel comfortable on the terrain while discovering the amazing treasures Beaver Creek Resort has to offer, such as mountain-top vistas, groomed glades, adventure zones, and world-class dining.

Haymeadow Park

There’s no better place for beginner skiers to learn than Haymeadow Park, our dedicated learning area at the base of the resort. With a beginner-friendly gondola, gentle terrain, magic carpets, and on-mountain dining including The Parlour, it’s the best place to build up confidence and improve in a fun, safe environment – together.
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Red Buffalo Park

Red Buffalo Park offers the ultimate on-mountain skiing experience for beginner and intermediate skiers, families and ski school guests looking to discover new adventures while making unforgettable memories together in a safe, comfortable and controlled learning environment.  Families who come to Beaver Creek are treated to the best views on the mountain while enjoying Red Buffalo Park.  This is a totally unique family friendly experience, only found at Beaver Creek.
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Family Discovers McCoy Park during a Private Ski Lesson in Beaver Creek, CO

McCoy Park

McCoy Park is Beaver Creek’s newest welcoming, dedicated learning terrain for beginner and intermediate skiers & riders to elevate their mountain experience. A 250-acre expansion with 17 new trails and two new lifts, McCoy Park will offer natural, groomable glades in a tranquil bowl setting.  This is the ultimate terrain experience for families looking to connect with one another amidst the most inspiring terrain Beaver Creek Resort has to offer.
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