Copper Mountain Tops Off $100M Investment

The last improvement left to open at Copper Mountain opens in December, capping off a $100 million improvement program. The new Aerie lodge offer skiers two floors of restaurants with panoramic views. The 25,000-square-foot lodge building sits atop the America Eagle lift at the intersection of runs high on Copper’s central mountain. The ski area is an hour and 15 minutes west of Denver.

POWDR Corp, the owners of the hill, have added gondolas and bubbled-covered chairs to its main chairlifts, American Eagle and American Flyer, and bought a fleet of electric people-moving COBUS buses ferrying skiers from Copper Mountain’s improved parking lots and through its villages.

Aerie’s two years of construction finished early enough this season that it was able to have its soft opening as Copper Mountain opened its first runs of the season on Nov. 12.

Next summer it plans to install a faster six-person lift in place of the existing four-person Timberline Express lift in the western part of Copper Mountain’s ski terrain.