Aspen Highlands provides a good mix of beginner, intermediate, and advanced skiing. Highland's Bowl offers a large powder area for experts only. For cross-country skiers, there are groomed and backcountry trails at Aspen. The backcountry trails are mostly in the national forest. There are 19 miles of groomed trails, warming huts, and food at the Pine Creek Cookhouse .
Summer is a time for sight-seeing, and for the arts.
The Aspen Music Festival stages its season from late June through August, with the music ranging from jazz to symphony, with seating in the famous tent, or on the grass. Sightseeing is another favorite summer activity, including trips to view the peaks of the Maroon Bells . Fishing is best on the Fryingpan Lakes, the Fryingpan River, and Hunter Creek. There are golf courses in Aspen and at Snowmass. The Conundrum Hot Springs are located at the end of a nine-mile hike from Forest Road 128.