Adding to the attractions, Aspen Mountain will bring high-altitude cuisine to new levels with the launch of five new restaurants. Idaho Sun Valley is located in South Central Idaho just three hours from Boise in the Sawtooth Mountain Range. Since Averell Harriman first put Sun Valley on the map in 1936, the things that make the area irresistible have remained essentially the same. The sun shines almost daily on this Old West setting. Small bands of sheep are driven through Ketchum twice a year.
Locals still smile and are glad to give directions.
And the valley continues to be a peaceful refuge for visitors year after year. Seventeen lifts provide access to more than 77 ski runs, or 2,060 skiable acres. Steamboat, Colorado Steamboat Springs is located in northwest Colorado in the Routt National Forest. Steamboat's western authenticity can be seen throughout the town in the working cattle ranches that still surround the resort, the locals' casual lifestyle and down home friendliness. Steamboat's huge mountain offers exhilarating mogul fields, inviting tree runs, sparkling powder fields and wide open groomed runs, all spilling from the top of the Continental Divide.