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So you want to ski or snowboard and you're having difficulty choosing which Colorado resort is right for you. Look no further than Keystone. Here's ten reason's why you should spend your day, weekend or week at Keystone resort.

10. Location and Parking: Keystone is the closest major resort to Denver, approximately 75 miles. While other skiers are still in their cars, you'll be a making turns. Keystone also has more close, free parking than any competitor. Why waste $10-$20 to get a good parking spot?

9. Daycare: The River Run nursery and daycare center is a fabulous facility. Drop in throughout the day and check on your little one by peering through the one way glass. Ski or ride with the knowledge and comfort of knowing that your child is in a state of the art facility with top notch daycare professionals.

8. Snow Cat Skiing: Always looking for fresh tracks? Satisfy your powder urge and sign up with Keystone Adventure Tours for snow cat led tours of untracked powder runs down Independence Bowl.

7. Alpenglow Stube: This fabulous restaurant perched atop North Peak offers impeccable cuisine and boasts the highest elevation of any AAA four diamond restaurant in North America. The uniqueness and service level of this restaurant are apparent from the moment you arrive and are given a pair of fuzzy slippers.

6. Night Skiing: Why stop at sundown? Experience the only night skiing available in Summit County and Colorado's largest night skiing operation. Your lift ticket or season pass allows you to ski or ride into the Colorado night.

5. The Outback: North or south bowl, trees or glades, The Outback offers the advanced skier or snowboarder unparalleled terrain options. Don't feel like walking to north or south bowl? Pay the nominal fee and take a snow cat ride to the bowls.

4. The Ski and Ride School: One of Colorado's premier ski and snowboard instruction schools. The ski and ride school offers a variety of group and private lessons from the beginner to expert levels for all ages.

3. A51 Terrain Park: This haven for extreme snowboarders and free skiers offers an 11-foot half pipe, a 450-foot long, 18.5 foot Zaugg cut Superpipe, 51 rails and funboxes, and DMX Music throughout the park. A51 features the Packsaddle chair as a dedicated return lift, and the park can be accessed via the high speed Peru Express from the remodeled Mountain House base area.

2. River Run: The heartbeat of Keystone, this quaint, pedestrian only village area is loaded with restaurants, shops, condominiums and a raging outdoor fire pit to warm yourself. Take a long lunch or get your apres ski fix. Stay overnight slope side and leave the car parked.

1. The Mountain:
3,148 acres
3,128 vertical feet
121 trails
20 lifts including 2 gondolas, 1 express six-pack and 5 high-speed quads
Vast, dedicated areas of beginner, intermediate and expert runs and terrain.

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