Vail, Colorado Town of Vail, Colorado Gore Creek Drive in Vail Village Official logo of Town of Vail, Colorado Website Town of Vail The Town of Vail is a Home Rule Municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.
The town was established and assembled as the base village to Vail Ski Resort, with which it was originally conceived.
Vail Ski Resort's first season was in December 1962; it is the biggest ski mountain in Colorado.
2.1 Vail Mountain Vail was incorporated in 1966, four years after the opening of Vail Ski Resort.
The ski region was established by Pete Seibert and small-town rancher Earl Eaton in 1962, at the base of Vail Pass.
The pass was titled after Charles Vail, the highway engineer who routed U.S.
Army's 10th Mountain Division amid World War II, which trained at Camp Hale, 14 miles south of Vail between Red Cliff and Leadville.
Seibert, with other former members of the 10th Mountain Division, returned to Colorado after World War II with the intention of opening a ski resort.
During training for ski troopers at Camp Hale, he bivouacked on Vail Mountain and identified it as an ideal ski mountain.
In the early 1960s, Seibert raised funds from a group of Denver investors, including Jack Tweedy, and with Earl Eaton bought a ranch at the base of the mountain and eventually incorporated as Vail Associates.
As plans continued for a new ski resort, Seibert hired Morrie Shepard as Vail's first ski school director.
Slifer also became the only real estate broker in the early years of Vail and would later be the broker in the transaction that allowed Vail to buy a ranch, now known as the world-famous Beaver Creek.
It quickly interval throughout the valley with housing added first in East Vail and then West Vail, and additional lodging added in Lionshead in the late 1960s. Within the first years the village had a ski shop directed by John Houserman, a hotel and restaurant directed by Pepi Gramshammer, and the mountain had a manager. By 1969 Vail was the most prominent ski resort in the state.
In 1988 Vail opened China Bowl, making Vail the biggest ski region in North America.
Vail's average altitude is 8,150 feet (2484 m) above sea level.
The town is surrounded by the White River National Forest and the Vail Ski Resort is leased from the United States Forest Service.
Mount of the Holy Cross is visible from Vail Mountain.
See also: Vail Ski Resort Vail Mountain rises from 8,120 feet (2,476 m) to 11,570 feet (3,527 m), giving a vertical rise of 3,450 feet (1,052 m). It has a 5,289 acres (2,140 ha) skiable area, 33 ski lifts, 193 marked skiing trails on three faces: the front side, the back bowls, and Blue Sky Basin.
Climate data for Vail, Colorado Vail has warm summers and cold winters because of its elevation.
North side of Vail Mountain, and Vail Valley.
Vail is served by Eagle County Airport near Gypsum, 30 miles to the west.
Vail is modeled on European ski towns, many of which are car-free, and the town is partially pedestrianized.
The in-Town Shuttle provides service every five minutes amid peak winter times, and every 15 minutes off-peak, between Golden Peak, Vail Village, the company district, and Lionshead, with live schedule knowledge provided at bus stops by Global Positioning System technology, which tracks buses.
Other routes centering on the Transportation Center service the East and West Vail districts on a scheduled, but less incessant basis. Eagle County provides bus service from the Transportation Center with service to Vail, Leadville, Miniturn, Eagle-Vail, Avon, Beaver Creek, Edwards, Eagle, Gypsum and Dotsero.
Interstate 70 runs east west through the middle of Vail and is the only road to or from Vail, with exits at East Vail, at the base of Vail Pass, the town of Vail, and West Vail.
From the east, the highway comes from Denver, 97 miles away, passes through Eisenhower Tunnel and over the Continental Divide, by-passing Loveland Pass, and over Vail Pass, dropping down into Vail Valley.
In West Vail, U.S.
Highway 6 (which still exists as a service road between East Vail, Vail, and West Vail) merges with I-70 at Dowd Junction.
While much of the trade is based on winter sports, Vail is also a summer resort and golfing center.
Vail is also developing as a cultural center, with various art and music venues active throughout the summer.
East Vail East Vail Single-family homes Golf Course Vail, East Vail Golf course, Ford Park, low density homes Golden Peak Vail Mountain portal, multi-family homes Vail Village Vail Mountain portal, retail, resort, transit center & enhance parking, Colorado Ski Museum.
Ski lift access to the Mid Vail mountain complex.
Business Vail City government, hospital, banks, offices, inter-faith chapel, low density homes Lionshead Vail Mountain portal, retail, resort, library, ice arena, enhance parking.
Sandstone (North of I-70) Vail, West Vail Mixed-use: Retail, offices, grocery stores, postal service, undertaking school, homes Proposed (Ever - Vail) West Vail Mountain portal, resort Cascade Village West Vail Mountain portal, resort West Vail West Vail Single-family homes Vail International Dance Festival summer dance festival featuring primary ballet and intact dance companies.
Taste of Vail, First week of April: The iconic food and wine event of Vail Vail Ski Resort Vail Nature Center Vail has a council-manager form of government and is led by a seven-member town council propel at-large.
Vail's enhance schools are part of Eagle County School District RE-50, with high school students attending Battle Mountain High School.
Eagle County Schools also offers the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy, a joint program with region ski programs for students in grades 5 12 who are involved in competing skiing and snowboarding.
Private schools in Vail include Vail Mountain School (K-12), Vail Christian High School (9 12), St.
Clare of Assisi Catholic School (K-8), and the Vail Academy (PK-8).
Higher education is available at the Vail Eagle Valley ground of Colorado Mountain College.
The Vail Daily journal is presented by Colorado Mountain News Media.
Two specialty tv networks have stations in Vail, Plum TV and Resort Sports Network.
During the mid-1970s, Vail became known as the Western White House of President Gerald Ford, when he conducted much of the nation's company from The Lodge at Vail hotel.
The nationwide media followed Ford to Vail and often broadcast tv pictures of Vail's mountain slopes. Vail, Colorado is featured in the music video "Walk This Way" by MO.
In the video, MO can be seen wearing a crew cut sweatshirt with "Vail, Colorado" written athwart the front.
Vail, Colorado is also referenced in the [Stephen Adly-Guirgis] play, "Den of Thieves" as the place Paul would like to go to for a "Holistic wellness retreat" Vail Ski Resort Town of Vail * Town Council a b Vail Associates.
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Ford jubilates 93rd birthday in Vail Vail Daily 2006-07-14.
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