Colorado is gearing up for another unforgettable winter, and it’s shaping up to be one of its most exciting seasons yet. Across the state’s 28 ski areas and resorts, new lifts are spinning, fresh terrain is opening, and snowmaking systems are cranking harder than ever. But Colorado’s allure this winter goes far beyond the slopes. Travellers can explore a world of adventure that stretches from mountain peaks to cultural streets — think backcountry hut expeditions, art trails framed by snow-capped peaks, and night-time adventures lit by starlight. Add in the region’s growing lineup of events, live music, and après experiences, and you’ve got a destination that delivers far more than just turns on the hill.
Here’s what’s new and unmissable across Colorado for the 2025–26 winter season.
Denver
- Gravity Haus opened its latest concept, Gravity Haus Denver Hotel, in fall 2025 and is the first Gravity Haus in an urban setting.
- This winter, Wheel The World will offer new small group tours, the first of their kind in the U.S., that balance fun, comfort, and adventure and highlight the vibrant city of Denver alongside Colorado’s breathtaking natural beauty.
- American Lore will open in late 2025 as a new whiskey and beer bar located on Tennyson Street in Denver, offering a creative fusion of high-end spirits and custom fashion experiences including hat-making by renowned third-generation hat shaper Parker Thomas.
- Adventure Time Bar is Denver’s first immersive rotating themed cocktail bar, opening in late 2025 in Denver’s Baker neighbourhood.
Boulder
- Limelight Boulder opened in August 2025 as an all-electric community hub featuring 250 guest rooms, a ground-floor restaurant, an outdoor plaza, an event lawn and a second story “viewpoint deck” with unbeatable views of the Flatirons.
Araphoe Basin
- Mimosa Bar – Every Sunday in November on the Perch (top deck above the 6th Alley) enjoy a build-your-own mimosa bar.
- Kids’ Ski Free Week – From 6-12 December 2025, kids under 12 ski free.
Winter Park
- Back for a second season of expanded service, the Winter Park Express Ski Train will offer special holiday runs in December and launch a regular four-day-a-week service on 8 January, 2026.
Idaho Springs
- The Mighty Argo Cable Car, a high-speed year-round gondola in Idaho Springs, will take riders 1.2 miles from the Historic Argo Mill up Rosa Gulch to the mountain top Argo Landing, which will feature pedestrian plazas, viewing decks, an observation trestle, access to 28+ miles of planned hiking and biking trails in Virginia Canyon Mountain Park and more to partially open in late 2025 and fully open in spring 2026.
Keystone
- Keystone’s first luxury hotel, Kindred Resort, debuts this winter with ski-in/ski-out access, multiple new dining concepts, a kids club, spa, and dozens of firepits designed for connection, transforming the base of River Run.
- Keystone offers night skiing on various runs. New this winter, Keystone is adding a cosmic twist to their World’s Largest Mountaintop Snow Fort with after-dark offerings on select evenings.
Copper Mountain & Leadville
- Colorado Adventure Guides introduces new guided ice climbing at Chalk Creek Falls, near Leadville and Copper Mountain.
- Leadville offers several new wellness experiences including Sunshine Mobile Saunas that bring wood-fired, Finnish-style saunas directly to a guest’s location.
- Step into a beautifully restored 1900s boxcar where history meets modern charm – serving local meads, brews and spirits just steps from Leadville’s Main Street at the new Boxcar Bar at FREIGHT – S.L.umber Yard.
Snowmass
- Snowmass Ski Area has three major investment projects in process, totaling nearly $80 million in on-mountain improvements. Debuting this winter is the upgrade of the existing Elk Camp quad chair to a new state-of-the-art 6-pack lift. The new Cirque T-bar also debuts this winter, replacing the existing platter lift, one of the highest-elevation lifts in North America, reducing wait times and improving access to some of Snowmass’ most iconic high alpine terrain.
- Ullrhof, the beloved mid-mountain restaurant on Snowmass, started a complete rebuild in summer 2025 and is set to re-open for the 2026-27 winter season. The new Ullrhof will be Aspen Snowmass’s first fully electric restaurant with seating for 500+.
Crested Butte
- For winter 2025–26, Crested Butte Mountain Resort will offer Women’s Wednesdays – weekly clinics where intermediate and advanced women skiers and riders can grow skills, build confidence, and connect in a supportive setting all led by expert women coaches (specific dates apply).
Glenwood Springs
- In Glenwood Springs, Hotel 1888 opened in summer of 2025 as a new 16-room boutique hotel built within the historic sandstone bathhouse of the Glenwood Hot Springs Resort – the world’s largest hot springs pool.
Steamboat
- Debuting this season, Steamboat will offer a Ski with an Olympian program to explore the resort with a Steamboat Olympian and also Dinner with an Olympian at The Steamboat Grand’s re-envisioned restaurant, The Crooked Antler.
- Old Town Hot Springs in Steamboat Springs unveiled a transformative pool expansion in summer 2025, adding four new pools and a spacious deck to the historic hot springs facility.
Ouray
- Moxie Mountain Guides is a girl-powered guiding service in Ouray that strives to elevate those from marginalized communities so they can experience adventures such as ice climbing, skiing, ski mountaineering and more with ‘pay what you should’ programming.
- Also in Ouray is the All In Ice Fest (January 9-11, 2026), a one-of-a-kind event that brings together ice climbers and shines a spotlight on marginalised communities and adaptive athletes.
Telluride
- Alpino Vino, one of the highest elevation restaurants in North America is a quaint European chalet on the Telluride Ski Resort that offers a prix fixe Northern Italian dinner accessible via a snow coach.
Other
- Honey Rock Landing, an organic working orchard and agritourism retreat in Dominguez Canyon, opened Luxury Cave Suites in August 2025 where each 400-square-foot suite is etched into sandstone.
- Kosmos Stargazing Resort and Spa opened with its first villas in spring 2025 near the Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve with plans to unveil 20 luxurious ‘Telescope-Equipped’ Villas to be completed in the coming year and a “Kosmos Stargazing Experience” at the on-site Planetarium & Observatory to open in 2027.
- The Old Library, a beautifully restored Carnegie Library on the National Historic Registry, is now open for short-term stays in historic downtown Sterling.
- The Springs Resort in Pagosa Springs recently underwent an expansion to double the number of hotel rooms and add 20 new hot springs pools along with a new geothermal spa, a geothermal greenhouse and a greenhouse-to-table restaurant.
- The Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America will open in early 2026 in Pueblo and aims to offer a unique and immersive experience, featuring life-sized machine replicas based on Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches, STEAM exhibits and interactive displays.
