Copper Mountain

How to get to Copper Mountain

Copper Mountain is located just 75 miles west of Denver International Airport (DIA) via Interstate 70. The resort is also accessible from regional airports such as Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE) and Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (ASE).

Getting around

Copper Mountain offers a complimentary bus service, making it easy for visitors to explore different areas of the resort without hassle. The shuttle runs seven days a week 6 AM - 11 PM. The shuttle offers service between East Village, West Village, Center Village, Alpine Lot and Far East Lot.

Skiing in Copper Mountain

Copper Mountain is conveniently and naturally divided into sections based on the difficulty of terrain. Almost the entire looker’s right—West Village area—of the mountain is for beginner skiers, the middle area or terrain above the Center Village is intermediate and the runs above the East Village (furthest left on a trail map) are nearly all black runs. As you can imagine, all the above treeline and bowl skiing is expert to extreme terrain, with the exception of Otto Bahn, the lone blue run in Copper Bowl.

Beginners, especially first-time skiers, have terrain that allows for perfect progression from surface lift (magic carpet), and relatively flat slopes, to small chairlifts with slightly longer and more inclined trails, and so on and so forth, all the way to green trails from the top of Union Peak to the base area. Intermediates also have incredible access, from top to bottom pristine cruisers, to the Otto Bahn blue run’s breathtaking views of the expansive Copper Bowl and Tucker Mountain.

Expert and advanced terrain make up 54 percent of Copper’s skiable acres, so if it’s not your first rodeo, you’ll be pleased. Copper Mountain offers expert skiers and snowboarders four bowls, acres and acres of high alpine extreme terrain, technical glades, moguls and long, sustained black trails.

Family vacations in Copper Mountain

Copper Mountain is somewhat of a self-contained resort, which is nice for families. With everything—lodging, base village, shops and restaurants—conveniently located at the base of Copper Mountain, families will rejoice that all the guesswork surrounding coordinating ski school and equipment rentals has been taken out of their ski vacation. Plus, Copper offers an overwhelming amount of off-mountain, family-friendly activities, like The Tubing Hill, Critterland for little ones and Woodward at Copper, families will never want to leave the base village.

Copper Mountain has incredible family skiing. Its varied terrain caters to any and all skiers in your family. With green and blue runs amply dispersed all over the mountain, including at the summit, families have plenty of incredible photo opportunities. Copper has a plethora of blue and green runs that run from the top to the bottom, allowing the whole family to ski together. Beginner families also have an ideal “learn to ski area” between the Gem surface lift (magic carpet) and the Pitchfork lift. Similarly expert families have plenty of steep, mogul runs to explore together, including Copper’s free cat-skiing off of Tucker Mountain.

The village offers a variety of dining options from cozy cafés and family-friendly restaurants to fine dining establishments. The Woodward Copper Barn is an indoor playground with trampolines, foam pits, and indoor skiing and snowboarding. Visitors can also enjoy cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, sleigh rides, ice skating, snow tubing, and scenic snowcat tours. Stroll through the village and discover charming shops, galleries, and boutiques or visit the arcade for family fun.