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This once-abandoned Southern Colorado ski hill is now offering $40 lift tickets

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This once-abandoned Southern Colorado ski hill is now offering $40 lift tickets

RMPBS News: 2024 Episode 33 | 3m 57s | CC

After sitting abandoned for nearly two decades, Cuchara Mountain Park, a 50-acre ski hill located in Cuchara, is entering its third season as the Colorado's first and only nonprofit ski hill working to make skiing and snowboarding more affordable in one of the poorest counties in the state.

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