With eight inches of fresh snow and more than 50 inches having fallen this month, officials at Winter Park and the Winter Park Express from Union Station decided it was time to celebrate with a “Snow Sale,” slashing prices for the ski train this weekend.
One-way tickets for Saturday and Sunday, if purchased online between 8 a.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday, will be $29 (so $58 round-trip). The standard round-trip fare is $118.
Winter Park officials have been confounded this season by missing Front Range skiers who may have been discouraged by automobile commutes that have been running two and a half hours to the Grand County resort because of weekend traffic backups on Interstate 70.
They also speculated disappointing early season snowfall contributed to the lower numbers, but conditions have improved. Winter Park has received 183 inches for the season, which is 87 percent of normal, and resort spokesman Steve Hurlbert said storms coming this weekend could bring it back to normal-season levels for the date.
The Winter Park Express leaves Denver Saturday and Sunday at 7 a.m. on Track No. 5, arriving at the Winter Park base area around 8:45 a.m. The train departs Winter Park at 4:30 p.m. and arrives at Union Station around 6:30 p.m.
To purchase flash sale tickets, go to amtrak.com/winterparkexpress.
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