New lift planned
Posted: Apr 13th, '24, 10:10
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Yes, this is a must. Something like the Cabriolet at Canyons. It's not cheap to run a shuttle bus system. That lift would pay for itself in short order. Otherwise the parking lots will be a cluster.
Think of it more like a walking village to get to the skiing - not a ski village.Mister Moose wrote: ↑Apr 14th, '24, 08:31 This drawing also shows the bridge being removed from The Grand, greatly increasing the walk. It doesn't show a relocated Ramshead lift. There is no accent on the value of slopeside condos, it's slopeside promenade. Strikes me as designed by someone at a desk, not someone who wants a ski village. You know, ski, where the accent is on skiing, not promenading.
I've been saying for years that the village should be built on the golf course with a lift bringing people up to the base of Snowshed with an extension to KBL. It's a win-win-win. The golfer population isn't enough to properly support two local courses so shutting the resort course helps the town. On the assumption that the resort course doesn't do much better than break even, the resort gains by shutting it down. The developer, now Great Gulf, gains an easier property to develop as the site development cost would have to be lower than all the work that's needed in the Snowshed/Ramshead lots. The skier population gains by not losing convenient parking. People staying in the village might even have a few ski home trails since everything on the golf course is downhill from East Mountain Road. Oh well....they never listen.hillbangin wrote: ↑Apr 15th, '24, 07:32Think of it more like a walking village to get to the skiing - not a ski village.Mister Moose wrote: ↑Apr 14th, '24, 08:31 This drawing also shows the bridge being removed from The Grand, greatly increasing the walk. It doesn't show a relocated Ramshead lift. There is no accent on the value of slopeside condos, it's slopeside promenade. Strikes me as designed by someone at a desk, not someone who wants a ski village. You know, ski, where the accent is on skiing, not promenading.
They could build a ski village on the golf course - but why would you want to ruin such a beautiful track when you have one the town can't pay for down the street...............
Not to mention that it would make by far Killington the best ski resort in the East - and Everyone would win.Bubba wrote: ↑Apr 15th, '24, 09:54I've been saying for years that the village should be built on the golf course with a lift bringing people up to the base of Snowshed with an extension to KBL. It's a win-win-win. The golfer population isn't enough to properly support two local courses so shutting the resort course helps the town. On the assumption that the resort course doesn't do much better than break even, the resort gains by shutting it down. The developer, now Great Gulf, gains an easier property to develop as the site development cost would have to be lower than all the work that's needed in the Snowshed/Ramshead lots. The skier population gains by not losing convenient parking. People staying in the village might even have a few ski home trails since everything on the golf course is downhill from East Mountain Road. Oh well....they never listen.hillbangin wrote: ↑Apr 15th, '24, 07:32Think of it more like a walking village to get to the skiing - not a ski village.Mister Moose wrote: ↑Apr 14th, '24, 08:31 This drawing also shows the bridge being removed from The Grand, greatly increasing the walk. It doesn't show a relocated Ramshead lift. There is no accent on the value of slopeside condos, it's slopeside promenade. Strikes me as designed by someone at a desk, not someone who wants a ski village. You know, ski, where the accent is on skiing, not promenading.
They could build a ski village on the golf course - but why would you want to ruin such a beautiful track when you have one the town can't pay for down the street...............
Okay, someone file the act 250 forms so that they can start breaking ground in 2048.hillbangin wrote: ↑Apr 15th, '24, 10:14Not to mention that it would make by far Killington the best ski resort in the East - and Everyone would win.Bubba wrote: ↑Apr 15th, '24, 09:54I've been saying for years that the village should be built on the golf course with a lift bringing people up to the base of Snowshed with an extension to KBL. It's a win-win-win. The golfer population isn't enough to properly support two local courses so shutting the resort course helps the town. On the assumption that the resort course doesn't do much better than break even, the resort gains by shutting it down. The developer, now Great Gulf, gains an easier property to develop as the site development cost would have to be lower than all the work that's needed in the Snowshed/Ramshead lots. The skier population gains by not losing convenient parking. People staying in the village might even have a few ski home trails since everything on the golf course is downhill from East Mountain Road. Oh well....they never listen.hillbangin wrote: ↑Apr 15th, '24, 07:32Think of it more like a walking village to get to the skiing - not a ski village.Mister Moose wrote: ↑Apr 14th, '24, 08:31 This drawing also shows the bridge being removed from The Grand, greatly increasing the walk. It doesn't show a relocated Ramshead lift. There is no accent on the value of slopeside condos, it's slopeside promenade. Strikes me as designed by someone at a desk, not someone who wants a ski village. You know, ski, where the accent is on skiing, not promenading.
They could build a ski village on the golf course - but why would you want to ruin such a beautiful track when you have one the town can't pay for down the street...............
They could build downtown Aspen or Park City on that Golf Course land.............