Ski Taos Accommodation

 

 

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You will find Taos is unlike any other ski resort in the US. For a start it is in New Mexico, with the ski resort set high above the arid valley and the traditional adobe town of Taos, home to many famous artists and writers over the years - including DH Lawrence. The culture is southern and very different from neighbouring Colorado. You'll see many more native American Indians around. You'll be eating spicy southern food as well as burgers and steaks. The skiing is something different too. If you are after the steep and deep, Taos has it. It has some of the steepest skiing, both above and below the tree-line, of any resort in North America. Much of it is awkward to reach - and made deliberately so in order to keep the numbers skiing it low and the quality of the snow high. Our main reservation about Taos is that it's such a long drive from other mainstream ski resorts. And because the ski area is not huge and the culture is so different, it would be good to combine it with a stay in a Colorado resort. If you are willing to make the five- or six-hour drive to, say, Telluride or Breckenridge, splitting your holiday between the two would be a very entertaining thing to do. Taos Ski Valley and the town of Taos itself could be on two different planets. The resort is deep in the Sangre de Cristo mountains, some 18 miles from Taos town. Starting on the road from Taos, you travel through the flat, arid desert scenery, with its muted red-brown tones and low-built, adobe buildings, then climb into the wooded splendour of the Rockies, finally reaching the tiny resort. 

 

There are regular buses. The resort is little more than a handful of lodges, built in chalet style at the head of a narrow valley. Space is too restricted to allow the development of a 'fashionable' resort. But there is a huge car park. It was founded in 1955 by Ernie Blake, who was born in Germany, reared in Switzerland, married an American and fulfilled his vision of building a European-style ski resort in the southern Rockies. The ski resort is still family-run, though Ernie sadly died in 1989.Taos town, in contrast, is sizeable, spread-out and rich in the many cultural influences - native American, Spanish and classic South-Western -which have shaped it over the centuries. It's full of art galleries, museums, restaurants and bars.

• Some very steep and challenging skiing
• Intermediates and beginners surprisingly well catered for, given
  the apparent general steepness
• Small, intimate resort nestled in splendour of New Mexico Rockies
• Fascinating contrast between ski Taos town
• Has perhaps the best ski school in the US

 

 

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