![]() ![]() He felt so comfortable that we skipped ski school on the second day and headed straight for the mountain. The instructors were fantastic, super patient and very helpful. He did a half day lesson (1pm to 3pm) and was taken up on the beginner lift by the end of the day. Ski school: My 5 year old son enrolled in the Wolf Pup ski school. You can get a beginner lift ticket for $25. Lift Tickets: The lift tickets are super cheap compared to other resorts. Weird Quirks: Kids must wear a helmet but they do not rent helmets for kids so you will need to buy one in their ski shop one rent one at a ski shop in Pagosa Springs. There is no accommodations for non skiers and no accommodations for kids under 4. There is one shed for rentals and one ski shop. They have two food shelters that serve cafeteria style. Huge parking lot with shuttle bus service if you end up having to park way down the road. The Ski Area: Wolf Creek is fantastic and very reasonably priced. ![]() You simply pull off to side of road and get out and have fun. Along the way is a great place to take your kids sledding. (2018)- This was our second trip to Wolf Creek.ĭrive up to Wolf Creek: There is no lodging at the ski area, we stayed in Pagosa and the drive is real quick. Information courtesy of Archuleta County and the Pagosa Springs Visitor Center. and fantastic scenery for a unique experience on any CDT adventure. Pagosa Springs combines a relaxed, small-town atmosphere with abundant outdoor recreation, plenty of services, excellent soaking. Today, it primarily caters to tourists, popular both with outdoor recreationists and springs-seekers. It became a relatively sleepy town until the 1970s, when land developers began touting the scenery and hot springs to newcomers. By the 1920s, however, most of the easily accessible timber had been logged, and the subsequent Great Depression drove many out of the area to larger towns in search of work. Both received a major boost when the Railroad constructed an extension reaching all the way to Pagosa Springs in 1990. Word spread far and wide amongst settlers about the hot springs, and visitors began to arrive around this time, but logging and ranching were the primary industries here. The town of Pagosa Springs, buffeted by the nearby railroad construction, grew around Fort Lewis and was incorporated in 1891, after Fort Lewis was moved west. The construction of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 1881, which passed 30 miles to the south, spurred settlements further afield. By 1878, Fort Lewis was established at the springs in order to protect settlers from tribes in the area. When gold was discovered in the surrounding San Juan mountains in 1860, prospectors and settlers flooded in. ![]() The name Pagosa comes from the Ute word meaning “smelly water” or “healing water.” Native Americans, including the Diné Bikéyah (Navajo), Pueblos, and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) peoples, who inhabited this area long before white settlers arrived were drawn to the warm, bubbling waters of the geothermal hot springs along the San Juan River. ![]() Pagosa Springs sits high in the San Juan Basin, where the high desert plateau to the west meets the Rocky Mountains, and adjacent to the 3-million-acre San Juan National Forest to the north and east. ![]()
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