Standard summer vacations, especially for those on the coasts, normally mean packing flip flops and heading to the beach. But with overcrowded beaches becoming the norm, instead of beach chairs, Snowmass Village, Colorado invites you to pack hiking boots and plan a mountain vacation instead.
Summer in Snowmass brings long sunny days (over 300 per year), no humidity, and mild temperatures that are perfect for hiking up wildflower-strewn trails or thundering down them on a mountain bike. A day that begins ballooning above the valley may turn into dancing at an outdoor concert or land you at the Snowmass Rodeo, the longest continuously running rodeo in Colorado.