{"id":19763,"date":"2019-10-30T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61149"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:00:02","slug":"winter-park-resort-announces-earliest-ever-opening-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/winter-park-resort-announces-earliest-ever-opening-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Park Resort announces earliest ever opening date"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"901\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-8.53.53-AM.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-8.53.53-AM.png 901w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-8.53.53-AM-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-8.53.53-AM-768x575.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\"><figcaption><strong>The snow stake at Winter Park Resort shows the mountain has received new snowfall. With more than 40 inches of snow in October, the resort will open early on Saturday.<\/strong><br \/><em>Winter Park Resort snow cam<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Winter Park Resort is taking advantage of more than 40 inches of snow this month and opening earlier than it ever has before.<\/p>\n<p>First chair is scheduled to break the traditional opening banner at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Arrow Lift to kick off the season. The weekend also marks the beginning of the resort\u2019s 80th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMother Nature brought the snow to Winter Park especially early this year, so we are taking advantage of the conditions and are excited to open the mountain more than a week earlier than expected,\u201d said Liz Agostin, marketing director for the resort.<\/p>\n<p>It is the earliest the resort has ever opened, which the resort credits not only to October\u2019s snowfall, but to $4 million in recent updates to its snowmaking system.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"2.6041666666667\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Starting the week off right! \u2744\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinterParkResort?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WinterParkResort<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreshSnow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreshSnow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FzAbq1LeSR\">pic.twitter.com\/FzAbq1LeSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Winter Park Resort (@WinterPark) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WinterPark\/status\/1188824149046648834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result, skiers and riders will have access to fan favorite runs in Parkside, including Parkway, Lower Village Way and Sorenson Park. Guests can also celebrate with opening day giveaways and $1 Coors Light specials at the Derailer Bar.<\/p>\n<p>Winter Park Resort had initially targeted a Nov. 13 opening date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the resort in the Mary Jane territory, progress is underway on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/winter-park-resort-plans-upgrade-to-sunnyside-lift-in-mary-jane-territory\/\">new Sunnyside Lift<\/a>, which will be a high-speed six-seater to open this season.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the resort\u2019s anniversary, it will offer lift tickets for $40 per person with a minimum of two people on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/winter-park-resort-announces-earliest-ever-opening-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The snow stake at Winter Park Resort shows the mountain has received new snowfall. With more than 40 inches of snow in October, the resort will open early on Saturday.Winter Park Resort snow cam Winter Park Resort is taking advantage of more than 40 inches of snow this month and opening earlier than it ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:35:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}