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Up on the slopes at Winter Park, ski staff were measuring a 70-inch mid-mountain base; and down the hill at Rendezvous, the four-season resort nestled beside the town of Winter Park, planners at Koelbel and Company were feeling a warm breeze blowing into the mountain resort market; and were putting finishing touches on a luxury-sized cabin model in time for Presidents Day Weekend – the first new cabins introduced to Rendezvous in six years.
That new MooseHorn cabin shows over 2,100 square feet of finished space, along with a two-car garage, entertaining areas around a stone fireplace, lots of places to sleep kids and cousins, and a wrap-around deck for watching an occasional moose wander through the forest. You can tour it Presidents Day weekend during your ski trip to Winter Park – while the kids roast S’mores, or take a snowshoe tour of Rendezvous. MooseHorn Cabins – so popular when Rendezvous opened that they ranked as fastest selling homes in Grand County year-after-year – have been “re-envisioned” for a new class of buyers the Fraser Valley is seeing now, according to Dana Keller, Koelbel Vice President for Sales and Marketing. Some of those are baby-boom generation, looking for places to host grandkids; but others are Gen-X and even Gen-Y buyers making a nest for their own kids during the years when families still do everything together – ski, bike, fish or mountaineer. Those are all outdoor adventures that Winter Park’s Fraser River Valley is long on (the trout waters run right through Rendezvous; and peaks along the Continental Divide, including a ghost town site from the valley’s early railroad days, rise directly behind the 1,100-acre community). “MooseHorn Cabins are just one step of many that are making Rendezvous a totally new kind of mountain resort, one that will still be about skiing, but with a more trails and outdoor gathering places for family adventures,” says Keller. Koelbel and Company (president Buz Koelbel summered at his grandfather’s ranch near Rendezvous as a kid, and learned to ski at the old Ski Idlewild hill, now part of Rendezvous) calls that resort lifestyle “Trailside Living” – a free shuttle for residents to the Winter Park base, a “Club Rendezvous” that you can tour beside the Starbucks in Winter Park Village where resident store boots and poles, and new groomed trails inside Rendezvous itself, now in planning. Landscape architects are also looking at ways to expand Trailside Living into the high country behind Rendezvous, to a possible high-altitude event site. Rendezvous already has private Mary’s Pond – stocked trout waters beside the river – along with mountain bike trails and a park-quality picnic area. All of that, says Keller, complements the MooseHorn cabin you’ll tour, with family gathering areas that work for multiple generations; or for creating separate spaces for adult enjoyment away from kids’ spaces. The architecture harks back to what buyers recall about their own cabin experiences as kids; however, there are features that Grandma’s and Grandpa’s cabin never had: garage space that works as a gear closet; ‘drop zones’ for removing packs, snowshoes and boots; and wide-open kitchen with a big island to spread out for big-family dining. Rendezvous’ grand opening over Presidents Weekend includes a gondola photo booth, along with kid-friendly snowshoe tours. Lay a claim on a MooseHorn cabin (from the $640s) over Presidents Weekend you’ll get a 6-month free membership at Grand County’s new, world-class rec center, across from Rendezvous, as part of the package. Meanwhile, Rendezvous’ sales team will tell you about new lines of townhomes and condos that’ll be arriving next. Rendezvous Sales Center is just beyond the Town of Winter Park beside the Cozens Ranch and Museum. Call the Rendezvous Sales Team at 970-726-8200 or visit RendezvousColorado.com.Follow Mark Samuelson on Twitter:
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