Was ist los in Aspen, Vereinigte Staaten – übers Jahr

Hochbetrieb – X Games Aspen, Christmas and New Year peak

• Festival

  X Games Aspen

  20. Jan. – 1. Feb. · meistSporteventVollFrüh buchen

  Buttermilk hosts the winter X Games over a long weekend in late January, free to spectators and hard on the town's beds. The other three mountains ski normally through it. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Independence Pass closed (1. Nov. – 21. Mai (meist)), Ski season (26. Nov. – 18. Apr. (meist)), Christmas and New Year peak (18. Dez. – 4. Jan.)

Hochbetrieb – X Games Aspen, Presidents' Day and spring break

• Feiertag

  Presidents' Day and spring break

  12. Feb. – 25. März · meistSchulferienVollFrüh buchen

  American school breaks stack through late February and March and they land on the deepest base of the season. The snow is the best it gets; so are the lift queues and the rates. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: X Games Aspen (20. Jan. – 1. Feb. (meist)), Independence Pass closed (1. Nov. – 21. Mai (meist)), Ski season (26. Nov. – 18. Apr. (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Presidents' Day and spring break, Spring break in Vereinigte Staaten

Im März beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Presidents' Day and spring break (12. Feb. – 25. März (meist)), Independence Pass closed (1. Nov. – 21. Mai (meist)), Ski season (26. Nov. – 18. Apr. (meist))

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

• Schließung

  Mud season

  8. Apr. – 20. Mai · meist

  The offseason between closing day and the Maroon Bells opening: restaurants take their holiday, hotels close floors, and the trails are still under snow above 3,000 metres. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Independence Pass closed (1. Nov. – 21. Mai (meist)), Ski season (26. Nov. – 18. Apr. (meist))

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

• Regel

  Maroon Bells reservations

  15. Mai – 31. Okt.Früh buchen

  Maroon Creek Road is reservation-only for the whole open season: a parking slot or a shuttle seat from Aspen Highlands, both booked in advance. Nothing about turning up unannounced works here. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Mud season (8. Apr. – 20. Mai (meist)), Independence Pass closed (1. Nov. – 21. Mai (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Food & Wine Classic, Summer break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Festival

  Food & Wine Classic

  14.–22. Juni · meistFood- & Drink-FestivalVollFrüh buchen

  Three days of tastings and seminars in tents on the park in mid-June, and the weekend the summer season really starts. Room rates roughly double and the town books out months ahead. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Maroon Bells reservations (15. Mai – 31. Okt.)

Hochbetrieb – Fourth of July in the mountains, Summer break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Festival

  Aspen Music Festival

  1. Juli – 23. Aug. · meist

  Eight weeks of concerts under the tent at the Benedict Music Tent, hundreds of them free or cheap, with students practising in the open all over the west end. It runs July into late August. Quelle ↗

• Natur

  Alpine wildflowers

  1. Juli – 10. Aug. · meistWildblumen & Blüte

  Columbine on the Cathedral Lake and Crater Lake trails from the first week of July, later and better the higher the trail starts. Afternoon storms are the reason people walk early here. Quelle ↗

• Feiertag

  Fourth of July in the mountains

  3.–5. JuliNationalfeiertagVollFrüh buchen

  The Fourth of July weekend is one of the busiest of the mountain summer: lodging and campsites book out and roads into town are slow. Fireworks are often cancelled or replaced by drone shows when wildfire danger runs high. Quelle ↗

• Risiko

  Afternoon monsoon storms

  5. Juli – 5. Sep. · meistSturmsaison

  Midsummer pulls moisture up the Rockies and builds thunderheads over the peaks most afternoons. Above tree line the rule is simple: be off the ridge by noon. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Maroon Bells reservations (15. Mai – 31. Okt.)

Viel los – Summer break in Vereinigte Staaten, Schulferien in 2 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

Im August beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Maroon Bells reservations (15. Mai – 31. Okt.), Aspen Music Festival (1. Juli – 23. Aug. (meist)), Alpine wildflowers (1. Juli – 10. Aug. (meist)), Afternoon monsoon storms (5. Juli – 5. Sep. (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Aspens turning, Summer break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Natur

  Aspens turning

  18. Sep. – 8. Okt. · meistHerbstfärbungVoll

  The stands on Independence Pass and above Maroon Creek turn in the last week of September, and the Bells reservations for those days go the moment they open.

Läuft noch: Maroon Bells reservations (15. Mai – 31. Okt.), Afternoon monsoon storms (5. Juli – 5. Sep. (meist))

Viel los – Aspens turning

Im Oktober beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Maroon Bells reservations (15. Mai – 31. Okt.), Aspens turning (18. Sep. – 8. Okt. (meist))

Viel los – Thanksgiving break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Schließung

  Independence Pass closed

  1. Nov. – 21. Mai · meist

  CO 82 over the pass shuts for the winter around the first serious storm in November and reopens the Thursday before Memorial Day. Until then the drive in from Denver goes the long way, via Glenwood Springs. Quelle ↗

• Saison

  Ski season

  26. Nov. – 18. Apr. · meistFrüh buchen

  Aspen Mountain and Snowmass open around Thanksgiving, Highlands and Buttermilk in December, and all four run to mid-April. Highland Bowl needs a settled base and opens when it opens. Quelle ↗

Hochbetrieb – Christmas and New Year peak, Winter / Christmas break in Vereinigte Staaten

• Feiertag

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18. Dez. – 4. Jan.Weihnachten & NeujahrVollFrüh buchen

  The dearest fortnight of the Aspen year. Lodging goes months ahead, the town runs at capacity, and the early-season snow is rarely as good as the prices suggest. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Independence Pass closed (1. Nov. – 21. Mai (meist)), Ski season (26. Nov. – 18. Apr. (meist))