Winter Park Resort opens for its 70th season today. With 9.5 inches of fresh snow over the weekend, the mountain opens with three lifts — the Arrow, the Gemini Express and the Endeavor, serving two midway runs — Lower Village Way and Larry Sale. The Sorensen Park beginners area and a small portion of one terrain park, Re-railer, will also open.
Lifts will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. Today, tickets at the window will cost $65 for adults, $45 for children, $55 for seniors and $35 for the 70-plus crowd. Half-day tickets will cost $59.
In celebration of its 70th year in business, the resort will be offering a variety of prizes and discounts from Wednesday through Sunday. There will be a chairlift prize given hourly from 9 a.m. to noon each day to the people sitting in that days “lucky” chair.
The resort will also be offering 50 percent off lessons, two-for-one tuning at resort-owned rental shops, 70-cent pancakes and 70-cent cokes at its restaurants. On Saturday, the resort will sponsor a GPS scavenger hunt on the mountain and through the village followed by an aprés ski party.
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