With the mountains getting slammed with snow, how do you create family ski experiences today that parents and grandparents remember from when they were kids?…when traffic was lighter and crowds were smaller? Next weekend Rendezvous, Koelbel and Company’s master-planned resort community at Winter Park, takes a step forward in doing just that — making its property owners’ memories more about skiing, less about hassles of driving, parking, and tromping around in your boots.
Koelbel and Companys’ Silvio DeBartolomeis and Coldwell Banker agents Dennis Saffell and Stuart Huster show how close Club Rendezvous is to Winter Park’s Zephyr Lift.

You can be one of the first to see Club Rendezvous, an exclusive owner’s club at the Winter Park base, next to Starbucks and directly across from Zephyr Lift – the only owner’s club at Winter Park. “For our families, it’s going to be like, ‘Wow, this is the way it used to be,” says Silvio DeBartolomeis, Vice President of Sales at Koelbel. more »

What’s the best bump-n-glade skiing in the U.S.? It’s not in Aspen, or Vail, but Mary Jane, with near-sheer drops like Cannonball and Riflesight, two back bowls, and a gated enclave nestling the only 20 single-family homes that will ever have ski-in, ski-out access in Winter Park Resort.
Realtor Dennis Saffell, left, and developer Kevin Magenis show the one re-sale home in Bridger’s Cache, the only ski-in/out single-family property in Winter Park.

Bridger’s Cache, tucked into a stand of firs overlooking Winter Park’s new base village, is at the opposite end of the market from bargain-priced condos that are selling at ski resorts now. But developer Kevin Magenis has 12 of the 20 sold – and has Bridger’s Cache’s private, 7,800-square-foot Alpine Club, where you can warm up after a horrifying descent Jane’s bump-infested runs, already paid for, entirely debt-free. more »

Three hours south of where slow lines of cars creep through the Eisenhower Tunnel on their way to I-70 ski areas, two Denver area Realtors are bragging about how much more bang-for-your-resort-buck you can get by driving south from Denver instead of west.
Deviree Vallejo shows a newer home in Denver’s Highlands neighborhood, a block from the restaurant scene at Highlands Square.

… Starting with snow. “We have better skiing, plus better fishing and golf than those I-70 resorts,” says Annie Schneider with Re/Max Professionals, who discovered South Fork, on the Rio Grande River 15 minutes from Wolf Creek, during a family trip down to the Durango narrow-gauge. more »