Since Beaver Creek has been lauded as the "The consummate kid-friendly resort" by SKI Magazine, check out these especially fun things for kids to do on vacation in Beaver Creek, Colorado:
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Beaver Creek Village
- Ice skating on the ice rink in the middle of the Beaver Creek Village from 10a-9p daily.
- Cookie Time enjoy fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies served at the base of Centennial
Express Chair #6. Daily at 3p.
- Bungee Trampoline at the bas of Centennial Express.
- Game Garage Arcade located in the St. James Place next to the Dusty Boot featuring
foosball, big screen TV and coin operated video games.
Sorry parents, this is a Kids Zone only!
- Vilar Center Programs. The Vilar Center is your private theater. While it is known for welcoming such acts as Dennis Miller and the New York Philharmonic, the Vilar Center offers a variety of children's programs throughout the season.
In between world-renowned symphonies and dance performances, the Vilar Performing Arts Center hosts a variety of entertainers geared specifically to its youngest patrons. Additionally, it offers special afternoon and early evening performances with discounted ticket rates for children.
- Campfire Tales. Visitors can gather round the Park Hyatt Hotel fire pit at the base of Beaver Creek Mountain to make s'mores and listen to storyteller Frank Doll's tales of Prospector Pete. The festivities begin at 3:30 p.m. so you can get kids fed and in bed early.
- Kids' Best Friend
Walk a Dog. Kids can sign up to walk the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch's Lab-rador retriever, that is - as part of the Beaver Creek hotel's Loan-a-Lab program for guests. Also at the Ritz, parents can luxuriate in the Grotto, an oversized rock-wall hot tub in the ultra-luxe spa, while the hotel's Ski Nanny bundles the kids to and from ski school.
Kids Activities in Vail, Avon & Eagle, CO:
- Chaos Canyon Kids' Cafe in Vail. For kids of all ages, featuring a menu with kids in mind. Designed with smaller tables and chairs.
- Kids' Snowmobiling Offered by Adventure Ridge Recreation Center, Vail. Get a FREE gondola ride up to Adventure Ridge after 2pm for foot passengers. Board the Eagle Bahn Gondola located in LionsHead for a ride to Adventure Ridge. After a day of snowmobiling, ask Adventure Ridge about the kid's Nightowl Program.
Track offers kids a fun way to experience snowmobiling on their own.
Miniature snowmobiles specially designed for kids 6-12 years old. Maximum weight is 110 pounds.
- Movies.
Cascade Village Theatre and Crossroads Theatre in Vail.
- Laser Tag by Adventure Ridge, Vail.
Guests may play one-on-one or team-versus-team. State-of-the-art laser guns and chest elements to indicate and monitor when someone has been hit. Laser sets are electronically read by a computer to determine a winner. Starts each day at dusk. Send the kids off to play while mom and dad have a drink at the Blue Moon Restaurant across the way.
- Avon Recreation Center, Avon.
Indoor swimming with a water park, gymnasium, tumbling, and more. For more information call (970) 748-4060.
- The Back Bowl, Eagle.
Bowling alley and video arcade located just down the road in Eagle. For more information call (970) 328
- Twenty Below. For the tweens and teens crowd, this club is filled with pool tables, hockey, music, movies. Located in the LionsHead parking structure.
- Kids Night Out Goes Western. supervised evening for ages 5-12
Adventure Ridge at the Top of the Gondola.
This real travel advice for Vail visitors was provided by Bonnie Butler.
Can't afford to stay at the Ritz Carlton? No problem, put the family up in a condo rental in Beaver Creek, or find a vacation home for rent in Vail, Avon, or Eagle, Colorado, and save money that can be better spent on having more family fun.