The hotel is on Vail Mountain, with the Eagle Bahn Gondola, an express chairlift, outside its door. Vail Resort encompasses 5,289 skiable acres with 193 trails on three main areas. Vail-Front Side is 28 percent beginner, 32 percent intermediate, and 40 percent expert. Back Bowls is 13 percent intermediate and 87 percent expert. Blue Sky Basin is 47 percent intermediate and 53 percent expert. The resort, which has 3,450-foot vertical rise and averages 66 inches of snow each January, has 34 lifts, including one gondola and 14 high-speed quads.
The hotel also offers access to a variety of mountain activities, as well as a 100-mile bicycle trail through the White River National Forest. Nearby greens include the Vail Golf Course and the Robert Trent Jones-designed Beaver Creek Golf Course. Area recreational opportunities in addition to those listed include tubing, ski biking, laser tag, bobsledding, paragliding, rock climbing, cattle drives, hot-air ballooning, four-wheel drive tours, and llama treks. Also available are carriage, sleigh, and dogsled rides.
Beaver Creek, eight miles west, features 1,625 acres of skiable terrain with 146 trails: 34 percent beginner, 39 percent intermediate, and 27 percent expert. These are accessible by 14 lifts, including seven high-speed quads. The resort has a vertical rise of 3,340 feet and receives an average annual snowfall of 300 inches, plus an annual average of 300 days of sunshine. Beaver Creek includes the resort areas of Arrowhead and Bachelor Gulch, and a variety of terrain parks such as Park 101, Zoom Room, and Moonshine Terrain Park and Pipe.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Kayaking nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Skiing - cross-country nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Skiing - downhill nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Tennis nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Ice skating nearby
- Snowmobiling nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Snowshoeing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Ski equipment rentals on site
- Swimming on site