{"id":65352,"date":"2019-12-20T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/purgatory-telluride-picked-in-conde-nast-readers-choice-awards\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:55:00","slug":"purgatory-telluride-picked-in-conde-nast-readers-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/purgatory-telluride-picked-in-conde-nast-readers-choice-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatory, Telluride picked in Cond\u00e9 Nast Readers\u2019 Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=28fab251-6562-45bf-bde0-61e3b81a1a51&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"979\" alt=\"Purgatory Resort owner, James Coleman, and his wife, Tonia Coleman, kneel with the first chair of the 2019-20 ski season on Nov. 27 during opening day at the resort north of Durango. On the first chair from left are, Taylor Anderson, Evan Dake, 7, Owen Dake, Ashby Dake, 9, Romeo Wilson, 10, and Gabe Wilson, all from Durango who camped overnight at the base to claim first chair.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Purgatory Resort owner, James Coleman, and his wife, Tonia Coleman, kneel with the first chair of the 2019-20 ski season on Nov. 27 during opening day at the resort north of Durango. On the first chair from left are, Taylor Anderson, Evan Dake, 7, Owen Dake, Ashby Dake, 9, Romeo Wilson, 10, and Gabe Wilson, all from Durango who camped overnight at the base to claim first chair.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Readers of<\/p>\n<p>And with more than half a million responses in its 32nd annual Readers\u2019 Choice Awards this year, a record for the magazine, Purgatory Resort\u2019s place in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveler.com\/galleries\/2014-12-05\/america-s-best-ski-resorts-readers-choice-awards-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 30 best ski resorts<\/a> in North America carries some weight.<\/p>\n<p>Durango\u2019s local ski resort ranked 10th among dozens of resorts clustered around the Mountain West, with outliers in the Northwest and Northeast. Colorado clobbered the competition with 12 resorts chosen by <em>Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler<\/em> readers, also including Telluride at a coveted No. 2 spot. Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah nabbed No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Purgatory took the No. 10 spot, beating Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at No. 13; Park City, Utah, at No. 18; and Big Sky, Montana, at No. 23. With a $99 price tag, Purgatory doesn\u2019t offer the cheapest lift tickets on the list \u2013 a few resorts offer tickets as low as $70. But a local lift ticket is cheaper than a $162 pass to Aspen Mountain, just below Purgatory on the list at No. 11.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine\u2019s summary of Purgatory highlights the resort\u2019s small crowds compared with the Front Range, its family-friendly perks and \u201cPurgatory Snowcat Adventures, Colorado\u2019s largest cat skiing operation with access to over 35,000 acres of guided backcountry terrain,\u201d the author wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Purgatory Resort is owned by Mountain Capital Partners, which also operates Hesperus Ski Area, 35 miles east of Cortez, Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telluride is tops in Colorado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,712],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter","tag-purgatory"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65352","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=65352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65352"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}