Little Nell Aspen offers ski lodging right on Aspen Mountain. There is no shortage of fine accommodation at the Aspen Colorado Ski Resort, a favored destination for the rich and famous and for ski connoisseurs everywhere. Aspen Mountain is a mountain in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. One of the foothills of the Elk Mountains, it is located just south of the town of Aspen, which is situated at the foot of the mountain at the southeast end of the valley of the Roaring Fork River in Pitkin County.The mountain is noted as the location of the Aspen Mountain ski area, one of four adjacent ski areas operated collectively as Aspen/Snowmass. Aspen Mountain is a Adventure Place For Vacations. The mountain is not particularly high but nonetheless looms over the town of Aspen because of the proximity of the town, which was founded as a silver mining camp in 1879 during the Colorado Silver Boom.The area’s residents are notably upscale and the per capita income of the nearby town is among the highest in the U.S.In the late 20th century the average home price reached approximately $6 million and the city developed as an off-beat haven for many A-list celebrities.
History of Aspen Mountain
For three seasons, the society has offered ski history tours on Aspen Mountain, but this year, the tours are being offered at Snowmass and Aspen Highlands as well.Aspen Highlands tours are every Monday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., starting at the guest services hut near the Merry-Go-Round restaurant; Snowmass tours are on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., meeting at the top of Sam’s Knob; Aspen Mountain tours are every Friday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. meeting at the guest services hut at the top of the mountain.
Mike Monroney, history coach at the society, has been leading the Aspen Mountain tours since their inception. More so than any of the other mountains, “the mining history is right underneath your feet while you are skiing,” Monroney said of Ajax. The tour focuses on the early development of skiing in Aspen, as well as some of the visible evidence throughout the mountain of the mining days. For example, the tour makes a stop at the Tourtelotte Park run, where there was once a small mining town.The Aspen Highlands tours goes through that mountain’s history as the one-time “black sheep” of ski hills, which remained independent of the Aspen Skiing Co. until the 1990s. Whip Jones, the mountain’s founder, made a unique mark on the sport, hiring Stein Ericksen to run the ski school in the late 1950s and embracing freestyle skiing early on Holidays in USA. Highlands tours are lead by Jane Click.Snowmass tours take participants up the Big Burn lift to overlook the whole valley. The area’s ranching history, Native American past and the recent ice age discoveries are the focus of the Snowmass tours, led by Alexander Hunter. The tours will work their way down the Sneaky’s side of the Big Burn.
