{"id":1316823,"date":"2019-11-19T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=991016"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:30:48","slug":"aspen-snowmass-named-best-ski-resort-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/aspen-snowmass-named-best-ski-resort-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Snowmass named best ski resort in the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/aspen-mountain.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/aspen-mountain.png 619w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/aspen-mountain-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\"><figcaption><strong>Aspen Mountain file photo<\/strong><br \/><em>Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Five Colorado resorts are listed in the top 10 of Ski Magazine\u2019s annual reader survey ranking Western North&nbsp;American resorts, with Aspen Snowmass checking in at No. 1. Six more are ranked in the top 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s the diverse terrain options, the quality of on-hill dining, the professional ski instructors, the extensive hotel options, and the No. 1&nbsp;apr\u00e8s scene that artfully rolls right into the No. 1 nightlife scene, Aspen Snowmass is, according to a whole bunch of readers, \u2018The Best,\u2019 \u201d the magazine said in Aspen\u2019s rankings profile that was published in Ski\u2019s November issue.<\/p>\n<p>Steamboat is ranked fourth, Telluride seventh, Beaver Creek eighth and Breckenridge ninth. Others ranked in the top 30 are Vail (11), Winter Park (14), Copper Mountain (15), Crested Butte (18), Keystone (27) and Arapahoe Basin (28).<\/p>\n<p>In the East, Tremblant in Quebec took top honors, with Vermont areas taking the next three places: Smuggler\u2019s Notch (2), Mount Snow (3) and Killington (4). Whiteface, the mountain in New York where the 1932 and 1980 Lake Placid Olympics were held, rounds out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theknow.denverpost.com\/2019\/11\/19\/aspen-snowmass-best-ski-resort-west\/228866\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Denver Post website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/aspen-snowmass-named-best-ski-resort-in-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen Mountain file photoAnna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times Five Colorado resorts are listed in the top 10 of Ski Magazine\u2019s annual reader survey ranking Western North&nbsp;American resorts, with Aspen Snowmass checking in at No. 1. Six more are ranked in the top 30. \u201cWhether it\u2019s the diverse terrain options, the quality of on-hill dining, the professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 12:43:01","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}