Lift tickets are priced by date and sold online and at the Vail Village and Lionshead ticket offices; Epic Pass holders ski on their pass.
City overview
Vail is a small resort town strung along I-70 in Colorado's Gore Valley, with Vail Mountain rising directly behind its pedestrian villages. Jewish life for a visitor centres on one institution: Chabad of Vail, the Jewish Community Center at 450 E Lionshead Circle in Lionshead Village, close to the Eagle Bahn Gondola. It holds Shabbat morning services with a Kiddush lunch, runs a Minyan Maker sign-up for weekday minyanim, and organises holiday programmes through the year. Kosher food in Vail comes mainly through Chabad, which stocks frozen kosher meat, poultry, hot dogs, sausages and cold cuts and runs a pre-order Shabbat menu delivered to hotels in the ski season, and through certified packaged products at City Market, which carries kosher breads, challah, grape juice, wine, pastries, cheeses and dairy. For a Shabbat-observant visitor, Lionshead is the practical base: about a dozen hotels and condominium buildings there are an estimated 5-to-10-minute walk from Chabad. Vail Village lies further east along the pedestrian core, while West Vail and East Vail depend on the town's free buses.
ListMap
Gondola tickets are priced by season and sold online and at the Lionshead and Vail Village ticket offices; children 12 and under ride free with each adult gondola-only ticket.
Free; a $20 per person donation is suggested.
Free; a $10 donation is appreciated.
Beaver Creek Village
Vail, CO
Beaver Creek's pedestrian resort village, with shopping, dining, the Vilar Performing Arts Center and its own ski mountain and scenic gondola. It makes an easy half-day trip from Vail.
Tips
Core Transit runs a free Vail/Beaver Creek Express from the Vail Transportation Center, about every 20 minutes in winter. Inside the resort, Village Connect is a free on-demand shuttle, 7:00 AM to midnight. Winter parking in the Elk and Bear lots is $13 before 1:00 PM and free after.
Phone
(970) 754-4636Website
https://www.beavercreek.comNeighborhood
Beaver Creek
Day pass: adults and teens $42–$60, children $30–$38, ages 2 and under free; prices vary between peak and off-peak times.
$12 per person for visits through December 31, 2026; a hiking permit is required in all seasons, and the permit includes parking.
$20 combination ticket with the Matchless Mine; discounts for students, seniors and military.
Activity providers
Two-hour self-guided ATV rentals from $274.54 per two-seat machine and side-by-side rentals from $327.54 per four-seat vehicle, including the driver's seat. A $20 per person grooming and trail maintenance fee is charged separately.
Kosher map of Vail, CO
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