Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, known for keeping the lifts turning well into the summer, will close on the first Sunday in June, officially ending Summit County's ski season.
Last year, the ski area closed the same weekend. The year before, skiers and riders had until June 11 to make their turns of the season at A-Basin.
Despite the perception that Arapahoe Basin attempts to stay open until the Fourth of July holiday, the last time that happened was nine years ago during the 1996/1997 season, said ski area spokesperson Leigh Heirholzer.
Heirholzer said A-Basin no longer makes it a goal to stay open into the summer.
"The reason we don't is we're opening so much earlier now with snowmaking, we opened Oct. 23, the year before it was Oct. 22," Heirholzer said. "Before snowmaking, we would open closer to Thanksgiving, sometimes even closer to Christmas."
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