Breckenridge Grand Vacations

Breckenridge Ski Resort’s Peak 6 is now open for business. The new lifts opened for the first time on Wednesday December 25, to skiers and snowboarders at the Colorado resort. Talk about a great Christmas present!

Peak 6, the latest expansion from Breckenridge Ski Resort, has added 187 trails and 3,000 acres to the already impressive resort. This includes more than 1,000 acres of above-tree-line bowls and two brand new chairlifts: the Zendo Chair and Kensho Super chair. This is the first expansion to the resort since Peak 7 was added in 2002.

Rachel Zerowin of the town’s visitor’s bureau said, “It’s a huge deal, and everyone here has been very excited. There’s a feeling that so many people are so excited to ski Peak 6 that it will leave great powder stashes across other parts of the mountain.”

Breckenridge Ski Resort, located just 90 minutes west of Denver, was the second most popular U.S. ski destination in 2012, right behind Vail. While the glamorous destination of Vail, Colorado is popular amongst international jetsetters, Breckenridge receives most of its business from American families. They also have a very high rate of repeat visitors from locals.

One local who has already explored the terrain is X Games silver medalist Eric Willett. “You can tell everyone is excited in town,” says Willett. “Peak 6 adds a lot of diverse terrain, really something for everyone.” Willett is also a member of the U.S. Snowboard Team and will likely compete in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Peak 6 has added 540 skiable acres to Breckenridge to the resort. This includes 143 acres of hike-to terrain and 400 acres of lift-served terrain, an increase in skiable acres of 23 percent. But the quality of terrain is what skiers are most excited for.

Breckenridge has always divided its ski mountains into persona types, with a mountain for almost every type of skier. Peak 7 is for cruisers with long intermediate runs. Peak 8 is for thrill seekers and “adrenaline junkies” offering a variety of the most difficult black and double black (expert) runs. Peak 9 features the resort’s beginner and leaning slopes. Peak 10 is for traditional below-tree-line skiers. Peak 6 is described as a mixed slope with sections for both intermediate and advanced skiers. The terrain is divided into a mix of blue (intermediate) terrain and extremely advanced chutes in two high bowls.

“The intermediate bowl will be especially cool for all the skiers and snowboarders who have always looked up at the big expert bowls but haven’t gone because they were too steep,” said Willett.

For more information about Breakenridge Ski Resort, visit www.breckenridge.com. You can also visit the Breckenridge YouTube channel to watch a GoPro video series titled “Inside the Creation of Peak 6”.

Want to know more about the exciting, new development by Breckenridge Grand Vacations on Peak 8, that we told you about on Thursday? (See: Green Light for Breckenridge Grand Vacations Expansion at Peak 8) As many readers have shared with us, the fabulous amenities and design of the existing Breckenridge Grand Vacations timeshare properties set the bar high for this newest development to be yet another outstanding vacation ownership ski resort.

The new resort will include a five-story building that will be home to 75 timeshare units, an aquatics area, spa, café and multiple movie theaters. There will also be tributes to the Bergenhof day lodge, a historic restaurant that operated for some fifty years at this location. The landmark will be demolished, but the new Breckenridge Grand Vacations property will honor the memory of the lodge and what it once represented to the community. The $80 million construction project will also give preference to hiring local subcontractors in the Breckenridge, Colorado area.

What else does a timeshare resort project like this Breckenridge Grand Vacations resort mean to the community?

• The new timeshare resort is anticipated to protect some 130 jobs that are to be phased out in the next six to eight years as the existing Grand Lodge on Peak 7 approaches sellout.
• Besides protecting existing employment, the new lodge is anticipated to bring some 100 additional jobs to the local community.
• The project will also generate approximately $2.5 to $3 million in town revenues through real estate transfer tax.

Excavation will begin in May of 2013 with sales projected to begin in the fall of 2014.  Breckenridge Grand Vacations co-owner Rob Millisor says, “We’ll do the major utility work and dirt work this summer. Then next April (2014) is when we’ll start putting in the footers and then we’ll go vertical.”

It clearly looks like another great resort in the BGV family of properties will soon be underway, which is great news for current Breckenridge Grand Vacations owners, future timeshare buyers, the vacation ownership industry, and the community of Breckenridge, Colorado. 

Plans for a new Breckenridge Grand Vacations timeshare may get a boost today when the Breckenridge, Colorado Town Councils meets.

The proposal for a new timeshare at Peak 8, to be owned and developed by Breckenridge Grand Vacations, is one of the items on the agenda for discussion by the Council. A new proposal, which has been in the works for several months, is regarding a development agreement that would enable site work on the new timeshare resort to commence before a final building permit is issued.

The website, Town of Breckenridge (www.townofbreckenridge.com) points out that this plan would be a, “new path for the town, since development codes don’t allow site work to begin before a building permit is issued.”

The proposed plan would give timeshare developer Breckenridge Grand Vacations a head start on developing its new timeshare resort property on Peak 8. The plan would allow the demolishing of the existing structure on the site, the former Bergenhof restaurant (now closed), to commence as well as the start of constructing the new resort infrastructure.

Specifically, writes TownofBreckenridge.com, the plan calls for, “Vail Resorts selling the property to the timeshare developer, as well as an increase in overall density above what is allowed on the site and a decrease in parking spaces.” The density changes would be based on the reclassification of the use of the space.

Additionally, Breckenridge Grand Vacations is proposing a donation on its part, to the town of Breckenridge, in the amount of $25,000 to help ongoing and planned preservations activities in Cucumber Gulch. Cucumber Gulch is a a critical wetlands complex and wildlife habitat, which the town has been working to protect for several years.

Breckenridge Grand Vacations, owner of the Grand Lodge on Peak 7, and other ski area resorts, is one of the most popular ski vacation properties among timeshare owners today.