The Steamboat Pilot & Today announced the approved plans for a new gondola in Wildhorse Meadows this past Sunday. The Steamboat Ski Resort officials and Wildhorse Meadows developers confirmed this week that they are close to finalizing a cost-sharing deal that would allow construction of a new, eight-passenger public gondola this fall. The goal is to open the gondola as soon as January 2010.
The new gondola would link a remote parking lot (known as the Meadows lot) and new luxury condominium hotel, Trailhead Lodge, with the base of Steamboat Ski Area. Initial uphill capacity on the new gondola will be 1,800 riders an hour, with the ability to upgrade volume to 2,400 an hour with the later addition of more cabins. The trip will take three minutes. The lower gondola terminal would be situated between the eastern boundary of the Meadows lot and Trailhead Lodge, scheduled to open in Wildhorse Meadows this summer. The upper terminal would be just outside a public plaza in the new One Steamboat Place condominium complex, a location designed to provide a natural pedestrian path for skiers to the existing Steamboat gondola.
As buyers near the closing table at Trailhead Lodge the news of a new gondola was very exciting. The ability to walk out your front door and take a 3 minute trip to the mountain is great for North America's #1 Family Ski Resort!
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