Getting your player ready...
When crews widened the road over Berthoud Pass ten years ago, Buz Koelbel was already at work on plans for his first neighborhood of cabins and townhomes at Rendezvous – a place that would give vacationers a whole new way of looking at Winter Park. Rendezvous wasn’t the dated ski condos buyers had seen for 30 years; it was about big, bright living spaces…ones that open out to the bike trails and other amenities.
Now Front Range families are coming to think of Winter Park as their most convenient mountain resort, particularly as weekend traffic through the Eisenhower Tunnel grinds to a crawl. Over the decade, Rendezvous has seen 245 families move in (46 sales over the past 18 months!), and Koelbel and Company is readying a new phase of resort-styled townhomes for delivery this year.
With 70 inches of snow on the mountain, this is the weekend to take time between runs at Winter Park and see how Rendezvous, with its polished neighborhoods wrapped in amenities, could fit into your plans. You can contract for a big ProngHorn II Townhome, Rendezvous’ fastest selling designs, at pre-construction prices from $450,000 … and start using the amenities right away, while your home is being built. That includes Club Rendezvous, your own private ski club at Winter Park Resort, a short shuttle-hop from your townhome – a place to store your skis and warm up at days end.
When you contact for purchase, Koelbel will also make plans for you to spend a week in a million-dollar BigHorn Cabin at Rendezvous — a lavish four-bedroom retreat with three master suites, big enough for you to host a getaway with your extended family – sometime before your home is finished.
ProngHorn townhomes have attached garages and walkout basements that add bright spaces for entertaining and for accommodating visiting cousins and grandkids. They’re all close to Rendezvous’ private Mary’s Pond, stocked with trout for summer, right across from the new Fraser Valley Rec Center with pools and slides, climbing wall, and much more.
Rendezvous has Club Rendezvous open for you to tour during your ski trip either today, Presidents’ Day, or next weekend (it’s just south of Zephyr lift at Winter Park, next to Starbucks); or you can take a guided tour from Rendezvous’ Discovery Center on U.S. 40 just north of downtown Winter Park – a chance to see ProngHorn, the pond, trails, and that terrific custom home you’ll get for a week if you buy.
Take I-70 west past Idaho Springs to U.S. 40; then west 28 miles, through downtown Winter Park, another half mile to the Discovery Center on right, look for the Rendezvous moose.
If you go…
WHERE: Free use of Winter Park’s Club Rendezvous with pre-construction sale on ProngHorn II Townhomes at Rendezvous; tour today, tomorrow, next weekend. 77795 U.S. Hwy 40, Winter Park; take I-70 west past Idaho Springs to U.S. 40; west 28 mi. to Winter Park; continue through town, another half mi. to Rendezvous Discovery Center.
PRICE: From $339,900
WHEN: Today, President’s Day, next weekend 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
PHONE: 970-726-8200
WEB: RendezvousColorado.com
Mark Samuelson is president of Samuelson & Associates, a homebuilding/real estate communications firm, on the web at MarkSamuelson.com. You can e-mail him at mark@samuelsonassoc.com.
