Winter Activities Photo Gallery

Visit the heavy powdered court of the king of Colorado skiing and let Vail's 33 lifts, 193 trails, 5,289 skiable acres, and three sister resorts foster the impression that you are royalty.

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If downhill is like motorcycle racing, then cross-country is the winter equivalent of cruising in a convertible. In keeping with that understanding, where better than California's untrammeled, snow-covered terrain?

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Churchill, Manitoba, is the place to come to worship the king all of winter's intrepid animals: the polar bear. Board a tundra bus, traverse the frozen terrain, and keep your cameras at the ready.

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Aspire to get your own Olympic gold by taking a ski-centric tour of Salt Lake City's world-champion runs…or just bask in the resort's off-piste environs. Either way, you win.

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Travel to a real winter wonderland by slipping into a pair of skinny skis and skiing from village to village, inn to inn, in the Austrian Alps, where chills are rectified by warm fires and there's always good coffee on hand.

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Yellowstone is refreshingly tour-bus free during the winter months, which leaves the land open to the park's many animals, and the inspired few adventurers smart enough to join them.

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Why settle for the rest when you can ski North America's best? British Columbia's Whistler-Blackcomb is consistently voted the best on the continent. It's time to test the hype…

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