Bring Back Ski Broadmoor!

I learned to ski at Ski Broadmoor long, long ago! Wow, do I miss it. You could go skiing for a few hours and not spend big bucks or spend the entire day traveling to the slopes.

 I wish...I wish...Ski Broadmoor would come back to the Springs (or at least locals could access it and climb up and ski or sled down again!)

 Getting something like Ski Broadmoor back would make losing Strawberry Fields Open Space feel "not as bad."

Here's some information I found out about Ski Broadmoor:

For many years, quality ski instruction and programs for young and old were offered at SKI BROADMOOR. The small ski area, designed to complement The Broadmoor Hotel’s winter sports program, officially opened in 1959. It was a pioneer of innovation, boasting lights for night skiing and a $200,000 snow making machine known as the “Phenomenal Snowman”, the first of its kind west of the Mississippi.

The slope dipped 3,000 feet with a vertical drop of 600 feet. A double chair lift carried 600 people an hour up to the top. There was an excellent ski school for everyone from toddlers to adult with certified professional instructors. In addition there was the Broadmoor Ski Club, Senior Racing Club and a Junior Racing Club for youngsters who advanced from white hat status to red hat, then blue hat and finally black. These teams and skiers went on to race in national competitions.

As Colorado ski laws changed, insurance costs escalated, and the “Phenomenal Snowman” fought a changing climate that brought Chinook winds and drastic changes in temperature each season, it became hard to maintain economic viability.SKI BROADMOOR closed as an operation of the hotel in1986, when the city of Colorado Springs leased the area. The city ran the area for two seasons until Vail leased it in 1988. Vail never made a profit and closed the area in 1991.