Keystone Ski Resort | Colorado Ski Areas

Keystone Ski Resort is a big Summit County resort, and one of the closest to Denver, at an hour and 15 minutes. Neighbor resort Breckenridge often overshadows Keystone in popularity, despite Keystone having more skiable terrain.

Keystone has the largest night skiing in Colorado, available on most weekends and holidays, so don’t worry about sleeping in! Aside from hitting the ski slopes, Keystone offers lots of other great winter attractions, like cross country skiing or a horse drawn stagecoach.

Terrain

Keystone is spread over three distinct mountains: Dercum Mountain, North Peak and The Outback. Throughout these mountains you’ll find an incredible collection of trails and terrain features. There are groomers, bumps, steeps, trees, bowls, hike access, back-country gates, terrain parks, and learning areas. There’s a 135 total trails.

Another plus at Keystone is there are two lifts from the main base area and both take you to the top. You can choose either a gondola or high-speed chair lift, which helps to shorten the lines.

Beginners will find several easy slopes that take you from the top of the mountain to the bottom, in addition to a few designated learning areas. Intermediates will have a blast on all of Keystone’s long cruisers, available on each of the three mountains.

With nearly fifty percent of Keystone’s ski area rated most difficult, advanced riders will have lots to choose from. Immediately on the backside of Decorum Mountain you can usually find good stashes in the trees or off a number of slopes on North Peak and The Outback.

Keystone offers snow cat rides at $5/pop, which will give you access to deep powder stashes and prime bowl skiing in The Outback.

Area 51 is one of the largest terrain parks in the country, filled with freestyle skiers/riders of all ages and abilities. Most of the terrain park is open during night skiing. Wherever you end up skiing you’ll be surrounded by majestic mountain peaks and stunning alpine views.

Village

Keystone has a nice mountain village at its base. It is a modern, pedestrian only village with lots of nice shops, restaurants and lodging. Keystone Lake is located nearby and in the winter it becomes a massive five-acre ice skating rink. There is also ice skating in Dercum Square.

The town of Keystone also has a commercial strip with additional hotels, restaurants and other amenities. Nearby towns of Silverthorne, Dillon, Breckenridge, Frisco and Copper Mountain make Keystone and Summit County a convenient, bustling place to stay.

The resort offers on-mountain snow tubing, open daily, day and night.

Summit House cafeteria and bar at the top of gondola.