Cameron Pass is 70 miles up Colorado Highway 14 and offers cross-country skiing.

Rocky Mountain National Park used to have a resort, Hidden Valley, but it was shut down by the National Park Service in the early 1990s.

Remember Sharktooth Ski Area? You were just as likely to find dust storms as you were snowstorms at the Windsor-area ski hill that closed in the 1980s.

Developments to build a ski resort on Cameron Pass-area Seven Utes Mountain fizzled in the mid-1990s.

Fort Collins annually makes “best of” lists for its expansive outdoor recreation opportunities – but it isn’t a ski destination.

Boulder, Colorado Springs and Denver directly are impacted by Colorado’s ski tourism, said Jim Clark, chief executive officer of the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association and former president of Visit Fort Collins.

“Skiing doesn’t have an impact on Fort Collins. There’s no connection,” said Clark, who left Fort Collins in August. “It’s an issue of geography.”

Cameron Pass and the Hidden Valley area or Twin Sisters Peaks, near Estes Park, offer the most potential for a Northern Colorado ski resort.