{"id":2452072,"date":"2019-12-10T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=317393"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T14:56:56","slug":"buttermilk-yes-buttermilk-tops-its-sister-resorts-in-ski-resort-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/buttermilk-yes-buttermilk-tops-its-sister-resorts-in-ski-resort-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttermilk, yes Buttermilk, tops its sister resorts in ski resort survey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Buttermilk Ski Patrol puts in signs next to the Super Pipe to deter people from using it as the resort begins to build the feature on Tuesday.<\/strong>
Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<\/em>
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Eat your heart out, Aspen Mountain. Step aside, Snowmass. Forget about all your double-diamond steeps, Aspen Highlands. There\u2019s a new top-ranked ski area in town.<\/p>\n

Buttermilk was selected the third-best ski resort in the country, according to Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler\u2019s annual reader survey. The \u2019Milk trailed only Sundance Mountain Resort, Utah, and Telluride in the opinions of Cond\u00e9 Nast readers.<\/p>\n

The magazine said 600,000 people weighed in for the 32nd annual Readers\u2019 Choice Awards.<\/p>\n

Buttermilk Mountain Manager Travis Benson welcomed the \u201cawesome\u201d news. Benson also is the football coach at Aspen High School and put Buttermilk\u2019s recognition into football parlance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like when the offensive line gets the credit they\u2019ve always been due,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cSure, there are the speedy wide receivers, the flashy D-backs and the superstar quarterbacks, but the O-line is the foundation of any good team. Highlands Bowl is nice, the Ridge of Bell \u2014 sure it\u2019s good, the Hanging Valley Wall is all right, too. But when you can shred Dead Bird Mine or conquer Panda Peak, then you\u2019re really skiing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buttermilk bested such industry giants as Deer Valley, Utah (fourth); Sun Valley, Idaho (seventh); Whistler-Blackcomb, British Columbia (eighth); and Vail (14th).<\/p>\n

Though usually overshadowed by its sister resorts, Buttermilk easily outpaced them in Cond\u00e9 Nast. Snowmass came in ninth, Aspen Mountain was 11th and Aspen Highlands was picked 19th.<\/p>\n

What made Buttermilk so special in the eyes of the magazine\u2019s readers? It might be the most \u201cplayful\u201d of the four Aspen Snowmass areas, the magazine said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore like one giant terrain park, it\u2019s home to seven different parks for everyone from beginners to ultra expert, a 22-foot Zaugg cut Superpipe, and the star-studded X Games,\u201d the write-up said. \u201cBut Buttermilk is also the mountain for easygoing beginner terrain and awesomely intense trails for uphillers \u2014 those showoffs practicing the cardio-busting trend of trekking up a mountain on skies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benson called the latest resort survey \u201credemption\u201d for Buttermilk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the birthplace of stoke,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are the incubator of the big-mountain bombers who are ripping Highlands Bowl today. They all started as Powder Pandas. It\u2019s great to see a publication whose readers recognize the true heart of our four mountain properties.\u201d<\/p>\n

scondon@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Buttermilk Ski Patrol puts in signs next to the Super Pipe to deter people from using it as the resort begins to build the feature on Tuesday.Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times Buy Photo Eat your heart out, Aspen Mountain. Step aside, Snowmass. Forget about all your double-diamond steeps, Aspen Highlands. There\u2019s a new top-ranked ski area […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 03:05:08","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452095,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452072\/revisions\/2452095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}