Vail village discoveries
Choose village shopping, a creek-side pause or an activity that fits the current season.
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Vail
Village walks · Alpine gardens · Mountain heritage
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A place worth knowing
Make room for Vail.
Give the village streets and Gore Creek time before adding a garden or museum. Scenic lifts and mountain activities depend on their operating season.
A few good ways to begin.
Choose a stop, then leave room for the unexpected.
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
Visit the garden setting and check current access, programs and seasonal conditions.
Visitor details ↗Colorado Snowsports Museum
Explore mountain-sport stories, checking the museum’s current visitor information.
Visitor details ↗Eat & drink
Choose a local food stop around Vail using the visitor dining directory. Confirm menus, opening days and reservations with the business.
Explore local dining ↗Stay awhile.
Choose a base for your days around Vail. Compare dates, location and the operator’s booking terms.
Explore Vail places to stay ↗A little farther along.
Your next good stop.
Find a business. Put yours on the map.
Browse published places around Vail. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Colorado photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Scene in the ski village below the slopes in Vail, Colorado, a town in Eagle County's Vail Pass that did not exist until four years after the founding of the Vail Ski Resort in 1962. As of 2015, Vail Mountain, just 1.5 hours from Denver, was Colorado's largest ski mountain — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Autumnal view of Rocky Mountain peaks called the Maroon Bells, between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, southwest of Aspen — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- At Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza, residents and visitors enjoy the river of the same name near what was once the site of old gold mines. The building in the distance is the Breckenridge Welcome Center — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
Independent visitor sources; inclusion is not a paid placement or an endorsement by the source.
County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Colorado FIPS08. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.