{"id":38930,"date":"2022-08-12T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/purgatory-announces-weekend-ops-beginning-sunday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:47:13","slug":"purgatory-announces-weekend-ops-beginning-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/purgatory-announces-weekend-ops-beginning-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatory announces weekend ops beginning Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=99f2cad7-4258-5a37-8d44-a52796f7704e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1502\" alt=\"Visitors at Purgatory Resort ride down the Inferno mountain coaster. Beginning this weekend, the resort will be open on the weekends only. (Christian Ridings\/Purgatory Resort)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Visitors at Purgatory Resort ride down the Inferno mountain coaster. Beginning this weekend, the resort will be open on the weekends only. (Christian Ridings\/Purgatory Resort)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>With kids heading back to school and summer winding down, Purgatory Resort, will now move to operating its summer attractions on weekends only beginning Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Purgatory will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, Aug. 20-Oct. 2, plus Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the same summer schedule that we posted at the start of the season and have followed for the past several years,\u201d said Amanda Anderson, Purgatory\u2019s director of marketing. \u201cIt is primarily based on when students in our region head back to school and allows our team to begin preparing for the upcoming winter season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mountain, however, will continue offering events and music in addition to lift-accessed mountain biking, its alpine slide and Inferno mountain coaster for visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Free live music will continue at the mountain every weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming events at Purgatory include its Mushroom and Wine Dinner Aug. 19, a motorcycle hill climb Sept. 4, where motorcycles will attempt to ride straight up the mountain, and the 12.2-mile Mountain Marmot Trail Run up and down the mountain\u2019s singletrack trails Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Purgatory will also host several more bike races.<\/p>\n<p>The Downhill Rockies race series will take place this weekend, testing bikers on the mountain\u2019s World Cup track. In addition to the downhill race, the event will also feature a \u201cWarlords of Downhill Costume Parade\u201d down one of Purgatory\u2019s easier trails at the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The mountain\u2019s Trail Party Enduro will take place Sept. 11. In that competition, bikers can ride the downhill segments in any order, as many times as they want, and only their fastest laps will count.<\/p>\n<p>The USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike Championships, meanwhile, will return to Purgatory for the second year in a row on Oct. 13-16.<\/p>\n<p>More information on upcoming events at https:\/\/www.purgatory.ski\/events\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music, biking and events to continue into October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,977,712],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-mountain-biking","tag-purgatory"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84175,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38930\/revisions\/84175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38930"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}