The largest ski area expansion in Colorado for the 2025-2026 season opened Thursday at Monarch Mountain. The nearly 50% terrain area increase will offer good skiing with cold temperatures throughout ...

Monarch Mountain will become one of the rare North American ski areas to offer skiing on both sides of the Continental Divide ...

Monarch Mountain's long-awaited expansion is officially open as of January 29, 2026.

Monarch Mountain opened their long anticipated No Name Basin expansion on Thursday, culminating a 25 year effort that brings nearly 50% more terrain to the mountain with long direct fall lines.

The trails have been cut. The chairlift is ready. And finally, the snow came. It’s time for perhaps the most anticipated terrain expansion in Monarch Mountain’s 87 years. An opening celebration is set ...

When the snow isn’t falling at some Colorado ski areas, the directive is simple. Go find it. “We gotta do what we gotta do,” said Tim Kerrigan, vice president of mountain maintenance at Ski Cooper.

Update at 6 p.m. on January 26: The new Tomichi chairlift and No Name Basin area at Monarch Mountain opens Thursday, January 29. Access to this terrain begins at 9:30 a.m. through a single gate near ...

Thanks to a cold front moving into the state, plenty of ski areas have received several inches of fresh snow for visitors to ...

On Friday night, the penalty box that Monarch’s hockey team had recently struggled to stay out of was starting to look more ...

Four backcountry skiers were evacuated from a Colorado mountain by helicopter in separate rescues overnight Sunday and later Monday after suffering frostbite and other “extreme cold ...

After multiple weeks of little snow accumulation and generally poor ski conditions, this weekend promises to bring some of ...

Without snowmaking equipment, Monarch Mountain outside Salida relies on Mother Nature to turn its ski runs white each winter. Yes, but: In low snow years like this one, she needs a little help, says ...