Vail. There's No Comparison?. Being the largest ski resort in the United States means there really is no place like Vail. Most resorts are lucky to have one bowl. Vail has seven bowls stretching over six miles?and that only represents one-third of our total terrain. Then there's the Front Side, boasting 127 trails and four terrain parks, offering every variety of trail you could imagine. Explore Blue Sky Basin's 645 acres located two miles from civilization, offering incredible solitude and backcountry adventure. We even have a mountaintop activity center, not to mention a world-class ski school program and fine dining at Game Creek Restaurant. All that, plus incredible dry fluffy powder and the most groomed terrain on the planet under an average of 300 days of sunshine a year. Vail? There's No Comparison.
The Front Side is the most commonly skied area, with well over a hundred trails and the most high-speed quads on any one mountain in the country. The Back Bowls area stretches across six miles of black diamond powder skiing. Finally, the recently opened Blue Sky Basin features 600 more acres of backcountry slopes, more than two miles from the nearest building.
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