Breck Gondola is a Go
March 13, 2006
BRECKENRIDGE — A modern, $17 million gondola to whisk skiers and riders to the base areas of Breckenridge Ski Resort has been on the town’s wish list for more than 20 years. It seems Santa was listening this year.
Monday, resort operator Vail Resorts and the town of Breckenridge announced that construction of a four-stop, eight-passenger gondola would begin this spring, with a completion date estimated for this coming Christmas. When finished, the gondola will carry up to 3,000 powder hounds per hour from the free skier parking lots, up through the tony Shock Hill neighborhood, and on to both the Peak 7 and Peak 8 base areas at the resort in seven-and-a-half minutes.
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