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.
Vail's Mountain Haus
Vail, CO
A lodge beside the Covered Bridge on East Meadow Drive, at the heart of Vail Village, with full kitchens in its studios and one- and two-bedroom units, booked directly through its own site.
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
(800) 237-0922
Kosher map of Vail, CO
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