January vacation getaways at Rocky Mountain ski resorts are traditionally well known and provide lots of fun.
A leader in wild and wacky winter frivolity is the Ullr Fest, January 4-9, at the Breckenridge ski resorts. Each January thousands of snow-worshippers don their Viking horns and other odd-looking garb to gather in this historic town for a celebration like no other.
A parade on Main Street begins the festivities featuring everything from fabulous floats to cruising hot tubs. The crowning of king and queen, family ice skating party, comedy night, live entertainment and the Ullympics, in which co-ed teams compete in a frying-pan toss and group ski racing, are other fun ski resort activities.
Steamboat Springs’ ski resorts will warm its winter days and nights with MusicFest January 5-10, Ski Jam January 12-15, Family Snow Festival January 16-18 and the 35th Cowboy Downhill race January 20. Starring in the family festival will be recording artist Mitchel Musso of the Disney show Hannah Montana.
The Winter X Games XIII January 22-25 at Aspen-Buttermilk ski resorts is the season's No. 1 international gala, with free admission. There will be nonstop day-and-night snowboarding and skiing events, live entertainment, parties and more with all competition telecast worldwide by ESPN.
January 2-4 at Copper Mountain ski resorts the Burton Super Demo is offered with free demonstrations of boots, boards, bindings and other products.
The 5K moonlight snowshoe tours are a cool event January 8-9 at Northstar-at-Tahoe ski resorts.
Park City and Deer Valley co-host the Visa Freestyle International January 29-31.
On January 10, the 14th annual Winter Trails program will offer free snowshoeing and cross-country skiing for all comers new to snow sports at dozens of Western ski resorts.
