Particularly when kids are still in their earliest years on skis, goes one argument, there’s no need to teach them to schuss at the grandest resorts. Ostensibly any resort with a chair liftand a ski school (or someone to teach them the basic positions of pizza and French fries) will do. Or will it?
As a mother of two young children, ages 4 and 5 years and just learning to ski, I advise throwing that advice out the window in favor of an utterly stress-free ski holiday at two of the most luxurious and accommodating Colorado resorts. For an epic family ski trip from Denver, embark on a road trip to Snowmass and Beaver Creek, as we did.
Ski vacations with kids require a lot of work, but these two spots excel at making the many moving parts as effortless as possible with top-notch programs, world-class instructors and full-service facilities that do pretty much everything but plant your poles in your turns for you.
After picking up our SUV at Denver Airport, my husband and I set off for Snowmass with our young kids, Nico and Gabi. It would be the first time on skis for the three of them, and I needed to make the introduction to my favorite winter sport as appealing as possible to guarantee a repeat family attempt.
This story is from the March 2022 edition of Global Traveler.
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