Steamboat ski resort in Colorado

Colorado alone attracts around six million skiers every year – an almost incomprehensible figure until you realize how great the skiing in the Rockies really is. 

The vast accumulations of light, dry and fluffy powder snow ensures that the region’s many peerless resorts are a skier or rider's veritable candy store. Aspen and Vail, Park City, Sun Valley and Big Sky might be the most famous, but there are so many other worthwhile ski areas; each with its own unique character and many small-scale family hills.