Happy New Year!
With the holidays over, you may think the gifts have all been given.
And with that thought, you’d be wrong.
Thanks to Sunlight Mountain Resort and the Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge, we’re giving away one Grand Prize Ski, Swim, Stay Getaway AND two sets of four lift tickets (2 adult, 2 kids).
The Grand Prize includes one night for a family of four at the Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge, hot springs pool passes and lift tickets to Sunlight.
Think of it as a quick getaway from the city.
Or, plan a visit as part of a longer West Slope ski trip and visit nearby resorts like Aspen Snowmass and Powderhorn Mountain Resort.
And while the Grand Prize covers everything for a family of four, it’s affordable to add on more rooms and lift tickets if need be. Plus, there is plenty to do in beautiful, festive Glenwood Springs.
Travel must be completed before end of the 2015-16 ski season and the following blackout dates apply: Dec. 19 – Jan. 3; Feb. 12 – 14; Mar. 18 – Apr. 3 (closing day).
To enter please leave a comment. Two lift ticket winners (each receiving a set of 2 adult and 2 children’s tickets) and one Grand Prize winner will be chosen randomly from all comments received at braveskimom.com on January 10, 2016.
Increase your odds of winning by entering two more times, at Mile High Mamas and MTN Town Magazine. Both of these fabulous sites are giving away a Grand Prize trip and two sets of lift tickets. All together, we’re offering 9 prizes.
Why Sunlight and Glenwood
Now that we’ve shared the important giveaway details, here are some reasons why you should enter.
Surprising Sunlight
Here’s what you’ll find at Sunlight:
- 680 acres of skiable terrain, divided into 20% beginner, 55% intermediate, 20% advanced and 5% expert.
- One of Colorado’s longest trails (Ute at 2.5 miles) and steepest trails (Heathen with a 52º pitch).
- Plenty of glades and tree skiing for everyone from intermediates to experts.
- 250 inches average annual snowfall.
- A friendly, warm base lodge where you’ll find everything you need from rentals, to lunch, to a sunny deck for an après beer.
- Huge views of Mount Sopris and the surrounding mountains.
- Other options for fun, including full-throttle snowmobile tours and Nordic skiing.
Family Fun
Sunlight is a very family friendly resort and a perfect place to turn your kids loose.
With one base, your kids can enjoy parent-free freedom without getting lost. Over half of the trails at Sunlight are intermediate, and these include runs with bumps, glades and plenty of fast corduroy. Ute, a gentle, long roller of a trail has been a kid-favorite for generations.
Not ready to let the little ones roam? Consider the Sunlight Ski and Ride School for group lessons, ages 7 and up. Lessons in the dedicated Children’s Center are available for kids as young as age 3, while the resort also offers enticing adult private and group lessons and high performance, women-specific and backcountry clinics.
Warm Water
While lots of resort lodging offers hot tubs, only the Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge offers direct access to the world’s largest hot springs pool. Here, the warm, warm water comes straight from the earth loaded with 15 rich minerals (and cleaned up with a state-of-the-art ozone purification system) to help your tired muscles recover naturally.
Soak, swim, splash. Gaze at the stars. Or my favorite: look into the night sky as fat flakes of snow fall into the rising steam.
Then, when you’re good and relaxed, it’s a short walk back to your comfortable hotel room where you’ll dream the night away.
Charming Glenwood
Glenwood is a lovely, historic town of about 10,000 people at the confluence of the Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers and Interstate 70.
If you’ve only driven through at high speed, you’re missing a lot. In 2015, Glenwood was honored as one of the best small towns for the arts by Southern Methodist University; as Outside Magazine’s 5th best place to live in the U.S.; and, in 2011, was named “The Most Fun Town In America,” by USA Today.
Honors aside, the downtown area is full of funky shops, art galleries, outdoor specialists and plenty of coffee, bakeries and restaurants. Don’t miss dinner at our favorite, The Pullman.
Good luck!
More on Sunlight Mountain Resort:
Sunlight Mountain Resort: Friendly, Fun and Unexpectedly Extreme, February 15, 2013
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Steve, Annie and Gwen!
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Looks like a great spot! Please put my name in the hat!
You bet! Thanks!
I would love to win these tickets!! I’ve never been to this resort and now’s as good a time as ever!! Is this the right place to enter the contest?
Yes, you are at the right place and you are entered! Thanks!
I love your website and sunlight! happy new year!
Thanks Emily! Happy New Year to you too!
Beautiful! would be so amazing to go..
Good luck to you!
I haven’t been to Glenwood Springs since I was a kid, my dad use to hunt in that area, I would LOVE to win this trip!
You will love Glenwood if you go! Good luck!
My family would love to experience the beauty and fun in this part of Colorado!
Thanks for entering Jen! Good luck!
Whoo hooo! Would love to win, since GWS is down the road from me… 🙂
Quite convenient! Good luck!
The hot springs are sounding good right now!
Agreed! Good luck!
Love this! What a great idea for a giveaway
Good luck Tara! Thanks for entering!
If love to win for my new family 🙂
You would have so much fun!
We LOVE Sunlight and GWS!
What’s not to love, right? Good luck!
I’ve always loved the “lower profile” Sunlight ski area… it’s less intimidating to me. 🙂 And you totally can’t beat soaking in the soothing Glenwood Hot Springs after a rigorous day of skiing!
What a great getaway – thanks for the opportunity to win!
You make some really good points. There is nothing but friendly and fun at Sunlight, definitely no intimidation. And yeah, soak, soak, soak. Heaven.
Pick us! Our family is 4. It’s perfect.
The perfect number! Winners are chosen randomly. Maybe you’ll have perfect luck!
Perfect get away in the winter time! Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year to you too! Good luck!
US Telemark Nationals were hosted there in 2015. Super fun and people were so nice!
We also spent plenty of race weekends at Sunlight when our boys were Alpine USSA racers. It’s a great venue and you’re so right — people are really nice!
I loved skiing at Sunlight when I lived in Co from 2002-2009. Would LOOOOVE to get back this season. Not a whole lot of skiing this season in my neck of the woods!
Definitely a great year to visit Colorado, then!
Sounds like a great getaway! Thanks!!
You are most welcome!
Sounds perfect! Have not been skiing there in years- would love to go!
Thanks for the oportunity
You betcha! Good luck!
I’m never one to turn down a chance to win a get away! Thanks for the opportunity, BSM, as well as the diversion from work!
Skiing is so much more fun to contemplate than working!
This looks fantastic! We haven’t tried Sunlight, and our son is finally old enough for lessons. Bring. It. On.
It’s a magical time – being ready to ski!
My family and I would love to win that grand prize!! With 3 toddlers it’s pretty much impossible to afford a vacation!
Good luck Sherri!
I’ve been to the springs, but never skied Sunlight. My fam would LOVE it, pick us! 🙂
I’m sure you would LOVE it! 🙂
Please enter my family for this great contest, sounds like a wonderful staycation!!!:)
Best of luck, Tracy!
Would love to go here!
Would love to send you there!
Happy new year!! How awesome would it be to win something like this? I’ve always wanted to make it over there for a weekend but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Usually Im not very lucky with contests, but who knows, it’s a new year! Happy 2016!!
New year! New luck!
Love the post and I’d love win!
Thanks Sara!
Soaking and skiing with the family – sounds fabulous!
Right? Good luck!
This looks like a great vacation spot!
Glenwood is great!
I love Glenwood and Sunlight!
Thanks for entering Katie!
I’d love to win! I’ve only ever been to Glenwood in the spring or summer. 🙂
It’s lovely in winter!
I’d love to win
Good luck! Thanks for entering.
Thanks for the giveaway, I hear Glenwood Springs is so nice and beautiful!
Best of luck to you!
Love this mountain!!
Great to hear!
A great opportunity for a little getaway from the city – count me in 🙂
It’s a perfect city break!
Would love to check out Sunlight with the family. Great contest package!
It is — who doesn’t want to swim, soak, stay?
Sounds like a fun weekend.
I’m sure it will be! Good luck!
I am a brave ski mom who’s taught two kids to ski and ride, pick me!!
Nice to meet you brave ski mom! All winners are chosen randomly, but I can totally send you free BSM stickers! Just shoot me a “contact me” email.
What a great family vacation! Id love to win!
Good luck Christen!
Glenwood Springs and Sunlight Resort have always been a family favorite. In fact, so much so, that my Mom wanted her ashes spread over “ski pass” (the flight path from GJT to Aspen over Sopris Mountain). To visit her every year, I drive all the way back to the resort and 17 miles into the mountains. This would be a dreamy way to celebrate her memory and legacy with our family!! <3
Such a nice tribute. Good luck!
Never been there and I live just hours away! Please enter me in you giveaway.
Thanks so much!
So many great places to explore in Colorado and this is certainly one of them!
So exciting
Good luck Cyd!
Great giveaway! Thanks for the offer 🙂
But of course! Good luck!
Wow! This sounds like a fun family get-a-way! Count me in!
You’re in!
My boys just took their first ski lesson last weekend. This would be an awesome way to continue their skill-building!
This certainly would be perfect timing for your family!
Another awesome giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity!
Good luck Lori!
Yes please! Thanks for the chance.
You’re welcome Julie!
What a fun trip. I know my family would be so excited to go. We’ve never actually taken a ski vacation – this would be an amazing treat.
It would be such a treat! Good luck!
Sounds wonderful!! Thanks for the opportunity!
You’re most welcome Christy!
Would love to make new memories with my loved ones
That’s my favorite thing about family skiing…making memories! 🙂
We did this trip with the family a couple of years ago and would love to do it again. Thanks for putting together the contest!
You bet! Sounds like a strong testimonial if you’re ready to go back!
This would be awesome!
Best of luck Katie!
I’ve never skied out west and this would be a such a fun time for my whole family, including the one who doesn’t ski!
It would be a great introduction to Colorado!
Please enter me for a chance to win! Love your site BTW!!
You are entered! And thanks! You made my day!
I never been go to any ski places im colorado lol, winning this contest will be the most amazing moment ever! *finger crossed*
That would be so exciting!
Sounds like the perfect getaway! I’d love to enter!
You are entered!
I sure would love to spend some time up in the mountains with this contest!
Good luck Chrissy!
Would love a getaway from the hustle and bustle! Thanks for the opportunity!
You are so welcome! Thanks for entering!
I would absolutely love to share this opportunity with my family! I have lived in Colorado for 14 years, and still have never had the opportunity to go skiing. Every year I say I am going, but it always gets put off for other necessities. It would be lovely to be considered for this prize 🙂
Oh that would be fantastic! What a great way to start skiing!
I never realized Sunlight was so close to Glenwood! That would be such an amazing trip for the family! Thanks for the chance
Of course! Good luck!
How great would that be?! My wife and I love getting away(when possible).
Best of luck to you and your lucky wife!
Sounds like the perfect family getaway! Thanks for being such a huge inspiration for fun & adventure with my own two boys> 🙂
Thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words!
Sunlight is my families favorite place to ski. Hot Springs is our favorite place to swim. Glenwood Springs ROCKS…need I say more.
GS does ROCK! Thanks
We love to ski.
You’ll love this trip then. Thanks!
What a great opportunity and an awesome getaway! We love Glenwood!
So happy to hear! Best of luck!
My family and I have never been to Glenwood Springs and his sounds like an amazing trip. From what I can see, Glenwood is beautiful. Thanks for the opportunity to be entered into the contest.
It is beautiful! Enjoy!
sounds absolutely delightful!
Good luck Sher!
This would be a lot of fun
Why yes it would! Good luck!
This would make a wonderful birthday present for my daughter and myself!! 🙂
What a fun birthday it would be!
I have skiers and swimmers! Perfect family get away! Please enter me in the contest.
You are entered Jen!
I just moved to Colorado and never been skiing. I would love this as it would make me feel like a real Coloradoan! 🙂
You must ski!
Looks like fun!
Definitely!
i’d love to win
Good luck to you!
I’ve been sking at sunlight since i was a teenager luv it my kids luv it to . Great place to ski and enjoy the day. Would luv to win these tickets;)
Good luck Wendy!
Sunlight is great -would love to take my kids!
I am sure your kids would love it!
Would love to win this!
Good luck Jess!
Frozen water and warm water. Sounds absolutely wonderful
Two fantastic kinds of h2o.
I just came across your blog today when doing a little bit of research on Powderhorn (an article you wrote sometime back about the new owners). Good stuff! Glad I found your blog.
Thanks Chris!
Just found you and would love to be included in this drawing. My daughter, Sydney, is going to school at CMC and is a season pass holder at Sunlight. Would love to bring the whole family down for a ski vacation! Thank you
That would make for a lovely family reunion!
I would be willing to except this most awesome prize.
Excellent!
Sunlight is awesome! I would love to take my kids and play if we win!
I love Sunlight – one of my favorites 🙂