As part of the planning process for the Golden Horseshoe area, the town of Breckenridge would like to promote the idea of developed Nordic skiing in the area, including a 50-kilometer groomed trail system and potential support facilities like parking areas and warming huts.
“We’d like to put a stake in the ground ... as saying that we’d like to establish a Nordic experience,” said Town Councilmember John Warner, as the town council discussed the results of a Nordic feasibility study recently.
Council members acknowledged there are a multitude of interests at the table in the ongoing Golden Horseshoe discussions, but also said the town has been clear since the beginning of its involvement in the purchase of the B&B property (that led to the creation of the town and county owned open space) that it considers the area ripe for a crosscountry skiiing trail system. That could help the town move toward its goal of becoming a Nordic destination, council members said.
Other major destination Nordic resorts encompass at least that many, and generally more trails, with Aspen tallying 65 kilometers, Devil’s Thumb, 120 kilomters and Snow Mountain Ranch, 100 kilometers. The trails in the Golden Horseshoe would be a mix of groomed skating and diagonal stride tracks, as well as ungroomed backcountry trails, according to the feasibility report.
“We didn’t develop the Gold Run Nordic Center so people could slide around out there on the golf course,” said Mayor Ernie Blake, explaining that the idea all along has been to somehow connect that venue with a trail system in the Golden Horseshoe.
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