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Telluride Ski Resort: Top 3 deepest snow packs in Colorado
Monday, January 30th, 2012Telluride receives 20″ in past 48 hours.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Telluride Ski Resort receives 10 inches of new snow!! Telluride has some of the best ski conditions in the state.
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Exquisite Ski Property in Telluride, CO – 529 Benchmark
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012Gondola Resorts Dazzles Telluride With New Multi-Million Dollar Vacation Rental Ski Home Mansion features ski/in ski/out access at the Telluride ski resort with over 13,000 square feet of living space and guest house, for $5,000 per night.
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Telluride CO Luxury Home Rental – “A Place In The Sun”
We are extremely happy to begin the new year with what probably is one of North America’s finest ski resort vacation rental properties.
Telluride, CO (PRWEB) January 09, 2012
A new luxury destination is born at the Telluride, Colorado ski resort, marveling the sophisticated vacation rental traveler. Gondola Resorts, a regional leader in providing vacation rental homes in Colorado, Utah and Florida, announced this week the addition of a new rental property to its rapidly growing vacation portfolio.
The vacation rental home, located in the Mountain Village region of Telluride resort, offers 13,836 square foot of living space, 6 bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms. “This is all part of a master plan to expand further into the luxury rental market”, says Jennifer Dunleavy, the company’s Director of Marketing.
“Named, A Place In The Sun, this newly built, ultra luxurious Mountain Village estate sits in absolute seclusion and privacy in Telluride’s Mountain Village. The 6 bedroom, 6.5 bathroom contemporary residence offers discerning vacationers the ultimate in ski-in ski-out access and mountain elegance,” Dunleavy says.
The Gondola Resorts’ website summarizes the property as nestled amongst almost three acres of old growth spruce with ski-in/ski-out access which enables snowboarders and skiers access Bridges ski slope. The description goes on to boast about the multiple outdoor entertaining areas, indoor and outdoor living spaces, and the natural environment. According to Telluride’s MLS real estate listings, A Place In The Sun ranks as one of the largest vacation rental homes in the area.
“It’s been an extraordinary experience to witness first hand the expansion of this magnitude at Telluride. We are extremely happy to begin the new year with what probably is one of North America’s finest ski resort vacation rental properties. Guests will find the new rental additions designed to bring back to life the lively ambiance of vacationing in the mountains which will make the travel experience to Telluride even more memorable,” said Gino Malara, General Manager of Gondola Resorts.
“To highlight the dramatic expansion at Gondola Resorts, guests renting any 5-9 bedroom luxury ski-in ski-out home will be treated to four-free adult lift tickets to Telluride ski resort”, according to Malara. The “mountain gift package program” was launched January 1 by Gondola Resorts as a promotion for the remaining 2011/12 ski season. Ski and mountain lovers can reserve the “Mountain Gift Package” by calling Gondola Resorts’ reservations desk. The program will not be available online.
Starting at $5000 USD per night during ski season, A Place In The Sun includes accommodations with an exercise room, home theater, elevator, 8 fireplaces, gas grill station, library and a guest cottage.
About Gondola Resorts, Inc.
Gondola Resorts, Inc. provides luxury vacation rental homes, condos and villas delivering on the promise of helping vacation travelers discover the alternative to small and confined hotel rooms. Gondola Resorts is one of the leading regional lodging providers, offering rentals in some of the most spectacular resort locations in Colorado, Utah and Florida. Gondola Resorts is based in Denver, Colorado with partnership operations in Aspen, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Deer Valley, Keystone, Park City, Orlando, Steamboat Springs, Summit County, The Canyons and Telluride.
Forbes Ranks Telluride #3 of all US Ski Resorts
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011The top 5 ski resorts in the United States
3. Telluride, Colorado (PAF = 89): If you’ve been to Telluride, you understand why it’s on this list. Seeing this town’s main street framed against one of the more magnificent box canyons in the world, the spire of its old courthouse saluting a battalion of serrated San Juan peaks, pays for the plane ticket. As for that plane ride, Telluride has a reputation for being hard to reach. It’s a tag that gets Dave Riley, the CEO of the resort, bristling. “It’s simply not true,” he says. “It’s easier to get in here than a lot of other Colorado resorts, and the drive is better.”
Riley speaks the truth. Landing in Montrose leaves skiers with a 50-minute car ride to the promised land, a path that winds through the charming town of Ridgeway while passing by some of the most ridiculous vistas outside of Switzerland. One of the choicest spots travelers pass is the Double RL Ranch, belonging, of course, to billionaire Ralph Lauren. Compare that with the white-knuckle drive, next to semis and thousands of other skiers, up I-70 from Denver to Colorado’s Summit County. And once you’re in Telluride, the need for a car falls away. There’s no better Main Street than Telluride’s in the Rockies outside of Aspen’s and Park City’s. Telluride’s old town is connected to the upper town of Mountain Village (it’s an actual town) by a gondola that runs from dawn to midnight and is free for all. There are many mountains you can visit that, technically, don’t require you to have a car. But none of them give you the pedestrian nirvana that Telluride does.
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011The most recent newsletter from Telluride Real Estate Corporation - The Telluride Report – is now available.
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High End Real Estate to recover the quickest – Telluride to follow
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011ASPEN — The highest of the high in the Aspen-area real estate market is recovering the quickest.
There have already been 14 sales of homes priced in excess of $10 million, and another three houses at that price level are under contract, according to Craig Morris, a partner in Morris & Fyrwald Real Estate. That’s only one sale off the record for a year — and there’s still half of 2011 remaining.
“That’s a bright light,” Morris said.
Andrew Ernemann of B.J. Adams & Co. highlighted the strength of the upper end of the market in his semiannual real estate report. He noted that one of every four sales of single-family homes in Aspen so far this year has been for $10 million or more.
“This fact alone is a clear indicator that Aspen continues to appeal to the world’s wealthy, and that buyers at the top of the real estate food chain are investing in the local real estate market in greater proportions than even the best years of the last market run,” Ernemann wrote in his report.
Or, as Mason Morse Real Estate President Bob Starodoj put it: “We’ve seen a hell of a lot more activity” in the upper end of the market. He expects that to continue in the second half of the year because most transactions close in the third and fourth quarters after spring and summer showings.
Starodoj said there are a lot of European buyers active in Aspen right now — and not all Russians. Morris said buyers are also coming from Mexico and Brazil, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
Morris said Aspen is attractive to foreign buyers because of favorable exchange rates and because real estate prices were adjusted during the recession.
Starodoj said there are lots of new buyers in the market, not homeowners moving up into nicer digs. More buyers are motivated by lifestyle improvements and value for their money rather than by seeking investments, he said.
There are signs that the market overall is faring better in 2011 than it did in 2010, which marked an improvement from 2009. Ernemann’s research shows that 40 single-family homes have been sold in Aspen this year, compared to 72 in all of last year and 55 in 2009. Overall, there have been 92 sales of single-family homes, condominiums, townhouses and single-family lots for $375.24 million in Aspen over the first half of the year. That’s up 51 percent in transactions, and 44 percent in dollar volume over first-half 2010, his report said.
“Aspen is leading the charge,” Ernemann said. His report said Aspen prices have stabilized and might start to increase in the best locations.
Snowmass Village is probably six to 12 months behind Aspen in the recovery, Ernemann said. “Prices have slipped further from 2010 levels, but are showing signs of leveling,” his report said.
Low prices are spurring strong sales in Basalt and eating into a big inventory. However, there are still a lot of short sales and sales of bank-owned properties, which are affecting prices. Basalt’s recovery is probably another 12 to 24 months behind that of Snowmass, according to Ernemann.
Starodoj said an interesting aspect affecting the upper valley real estate market is the “shadow inventory.” There were property owners who wanted to put their homes up for sale in recent years but held back because there was too much inventory, and prices were too low.
Now that the distress sales, such as victims of the Bernie Madoff scam, have been flushed out of the system, some of that shadow inventory is appearing on the market, Starodoj said.
While it might be difficult for most folks to imagine that homes selling for $10 million or more come with discounts, that’s what’s happening. Starodoj said “deep discounts” are being made in the 20 percent range, while more common discounts are 10 to 15 percent.
Morris said the sellers who are moving their property realize they must price for today’s market. They cannot ask for the prices common before the recession hit.
“Prices for ’04, 5 and 6 don’t really have any relevance to prices today,” Morris said.
Starodoj said he expects continued improvement in the market — in both transactions and dollar volume — in the second half, as long as there are no catastrophes “and the wealthy people put their hands back in their pockets.
“My assessment is 2011 is going to be considerably better than 2010,” he said.
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Test your knowledge of Telluride – Fun Facts
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011- Telluride was the first city in the world to have electric streetlights. Once called the “City of Lights,” the world’s first alternating current (AC) power plant was built here. Today, the nearest stoplight is 45 miles away.
At the east end of Telluride, Bridal Veil Falls (a frequently used name for waterfalls that resemble a bride’s veil) is Colorado’s tallest free-falling waterfall at 365 feet. In winter the frozen shape of the falls forms an imposing challenge to intrepid ice climbers. The falls were opened briefly in the 1990s to ice climbers, but the area is private property so climbing has been legally prohibited since. Referred to as a “mega classic” and “the most difficult waterfall ice climb in North America,” some climbers have trespassed to take a crack at the imposing and dangerous climb.
- Promptly at midnight on January 1, 1916, the operators of Telluride’s numerous saloons, gambling houses and dance halls performed, albeit reluctantly, an unusual task: they halted liquor sales. Long accustomed to marching to the beat of a different drummer, Telluride chose to deal with the new era on its own terms though. Prohibition laws were observed but enforcement was selective, at best. Telluride survived the nearly 18 years of prohibition with a simple maxim: If the moment calls for a bit of the “mountain dew,” don’t get caught! …read more
Butch Cassidy robbed his first bank in Telluride on June 24, 1889, walking away with over $24,000. Rumor has is that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid planned another one of their famed bank robberies on the same stools at the New Sheridan Bar where après ski folk now sip their hot toddies. Crossing the threshhold of the oldest bar in Telluride, you’ll feel like you stepped right into the Old West and every so often, a certain Telluride cowboy helps preserve some of that ole Wild Wild West attitude by riding his horse right into the bar for a sip of water.
- There are no chain restaurants or shops in Telluride. And that’s a good thing!
Telluride Helitrax is Colorado’s only helicopter ski company and has been in operation since 1982. The guides at Helitrax offer skiers andsnowboarders safe and personalized backcountry experiences. Helitrax flies in the beautiful San Juan Mountains at the highest elevations of any helicopter ski operation in North America, ensuring panoramic scenery and powder turns. And they offer a variety of heli-ski options: Choose from day trips, multi-day outings and custom tours.
- Telluride has the only free gondola public transportation system of its kind in North America. It cost about $16 million to build the original Gondola (in 1996); it costs approximately $3.1M a year to maintain it. It takes about 100,000 man-hours per year to operate and maintain the Gondola. It operates from 7 am to midnight.
The chimney looking-rock in the San Miguel mountain range is called Lizard Head. For at least the last 100 years, the sight of Lizard Head Peak has enthralled all who traveled across Lizard Head Pass between the towns of Dolores and Telluride. This protruding 13,113-foot pinnacle of rock was featured in the logo of Otto Mears’s Rio Grande Northwestern Railroad. In 1912, an erroneous newspaper story claimed that the landmark had actually collapsed, much to the shock of its readers. Today, the stunning spire still captures the imaginations of motorists heading north on Colorado Highway 145. Those who wish to get a much closer look at Lizard Head can follow a roundabout route to its base for a worm’s-eye view.
- At 9,078 feet above sea level, the Telluride Regional Airport is the highest commercial airport in North America.
The Free Box, a Telluride tradition, is all about give and take. It began sometime in the mid-70s when Telluride was simply a small mountain town with a definite hippie and New Age influence to it. People in Telluride who had some items they no longer needed might drop them off in the Free Box. Somehow this tradition has endured in these much more upscale, high-class, resort days.
- The historic Sheridan Opera House was built by Telluride miners in 1913. The acoustics and architecture alone warrant the Sheridan as a top spot on your Telluride must-see-list.
