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.
Tivoli Lodge
Vail, CO
A family-owned lodge on Hanson Ranch Road, run by the second generation of the Lazier family. Every room has a mini-refrigerator and microwave, and the Seibert and Penthouse suites have kitchens.
Neighborhood
Vail Village
Walking
In Vail Village, east of Lionshead; the shul at 450 E Lionshead Circle can be reached on foot or by the town's free bus.
Phone
(970) 476-5615
Kosher map of Vail, CO
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