Breckenridge Transportation

Getting There

Air

Denver International Airport (DIA) +1 303 342 2000 http://www.flydenver.com

DIA is located 102 miles from Breckenridge and services the following airlines:

Air Canada (+1 888 247 2262/ http://www.aircanada.ca/) Air Tran (+1 800 AIR TRAN/http://www.airtran.com/) Alaska Airlines (+1 800 ALASKAIR/ http://www.alaskaair.com/) American Airlines (+1 800 433 7300/http://www.aa.com/) British Airways (+1 800 247 9297/http://www.british-airways.com/travel/home.jsp/dhome/public/en_gb) Continental Airlines (+1 800 523 3273/http://www.continental.com/) Delta (+1 800 221 1212/http://www.delta.com/) Frontier (+1 800 432 1359/http://www.frontierairlines.com/) Great Lakes (+1 800 554 5111/http://www.flygreatlakes.com/) Horizon Air (+1 800 547 9308/http://horizonair.alaskaair.com/) jetBlue Airways (+1 800 538 2583/http://www.jetblue.com/) Lufthansa (+1 800 645 3880/http://www.lufthansa.com/) Mexicana (+1 800 531 7921/http://www.mexicana.com/) Midwest Airlines (+1 800 452 2022/http://www.midwestairlines.com/) Northwest Airlines (+1 800 225 2525/http://www.northwestairlines.com/) Southwest Airlines (+1 800 435 9792/http://www.southwest.com/) United (+1 800 241 6522/http://www.ual.com/) US Airways (+1 800 428 4322/http://www.usairways.com/)

From the Airport

Shuttle: Colorado Mountain Express (+1 800 334 7433/http://www.ridecme.com) Big Sky Shuttle (+1 877 336 8267/http://www.bigskyshuttle.com) VailCoach (+1 877 554 7433/http://www.vailcoach.com)

Car Rental: Hertz (+1 800 239 1643/http://www.hertz.com) Alamo (+1 800 327 9633/http://www.Alamo.com) Thrifty (+1 800 367 2277/http://www/thrify.com) Dollar (+1 800 800 4000/http://www.dollar.com)

Highway

From Denver: I-70 West (82 miles) CO- 9 South exit 203 Frisco/Breckenridge. Continue along highway 9 for approximately nine miles until it becomes Main Street

From Colorado Springs: CO-24 West (62 miles) to CO-9 until it becomes Main Street.

Getting Around

Shuttle

Free Ride (+1 970 547 3140) is a free service between mountain bases and the free parking lots. The shuttle also circles the perimeter of town, making stops at various intersections, the ice rink, City Market, and Peak 9.

Summit Stage (+1 970 668 0999/http://www.summitstage.com) is a free shuttle service between neighboring resorts Keystone and Copper Mountain as well as the towns of Dillon, Frisco, and Silverthorne. The Service operates year round between 6a and 11p.

Vail Express Shuttle (+1 970 496 4386) departs daily during the winter at 8a from the Breckenridge Transfer Center to Vail Resort. 20USD, reservations strongly recommended.

Trolley

Town Trolley (+1 970 547 3140) Runs daily during the winter season from 9a to midnight every 20 minutes, serving downtown and Breckenridge Village.

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Planning a Trip

Getting There

By Car -- I-70 runs through the middle of Summit County. For Keystone, exit on U.S. 6 at Dillon; the resort is 6 miles east of the interchange. For Breckenridge, exit on Colo. 9 at Frisco and head south 9 miles to the resort. Copper Mountain is right on I-70 at the Colo. 91 interchange.

By Airport Shuttle -- Most visitors fly into Denver International or Colorado Springs and continue to Breckenridge, Frisco, Keystone, and/or Copper Mountain via shuttle. Colorado Mountain Express (tel. 800/525-6363 or 970/926-9800; www.cmex.com) offers shuttles; the cost from Denver starts at about $80 per person, one-way.

Visitor Information

For additional information on Breckenridge and other parts of Summit County, contact the Breckenridge Resort Chamber at its welcome center at 203 S. Main St. (daily 9am-9pm summer and winter, with shorter hours in spring and fall), and administrative offices at 311 S. Ridge St., Breckenridge, CO 80424 (tel. 800/221-1091 or 970/453-2913; www.gobreck.com).

A source of visitor information for the entire region is the Summit Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 5450, Frisco, CO 80443 (tel. 800/530-3099 or 970/668-2051; www.summitchamber.org). The chamber has an information center in Silverthorne at 246 Rainbow Dr. Both are open daily from 9am to 5pm.

Parents traveling with kids can find all sorts of pointers in The Parents Handbook to Summit County (tel. 970/390-3533; www.theparentshandbook.com), available free all over Summit County.

Getting Around

Dillon Reservoir is at the heart of Summit County, and I-70 lies along its northwestern shore, with Frisco at its west end, and Dillon and Silverthorne toward the east. From Dillon, take U.S. 6 about 5 miles east to Keystone and another 15 miles to Arapahoe. Breckenridge is about 10 miles south of Frisco on Colo. 9, and Copper Mountain is just south of I-70 exit 195 (Colo. 91). Loveland is just across the county line at exit 216 on the east side of the Eisenhower Tunnel.

Summit Stage (tel. 970/668-0999; www.summitstage.com) provides free year-round service between Frisco, Dillon, Silverthorne, Keystone, Breckenridge, and Copper Mountain, daily from 6am to after midnight from late November to mid-April and shorter hours the rest of the year.

You can get around Breckenridge on the free bus system (tel. 970/547-3140), and there's also free shuttle service at the Keystone Resort (tel. 970/496-4200).

Fast Facts

Medical facilities here include the Breckenridge Medical Center, located in the Village at Breckenridge, 555 S. Park Ave.(tel. 970/453-1010). Post offices are at 305 S. Ridge St., Breckenridge, and 35 W. Main St., Frisco. For hours and other information, contact the U.S. Postal Service (tel. 800/275-8777; www.usps.com). For weather and road conditions, call tel. 970/668-1090.

Special Events

Ullr Fest, early January, in Breckenridge; International Snow Sculpture Championships, fourth week in January, in Breckenridge; Sunsation, early April, in Copper Mountain; Memorial Day Weekend Beach Party and Festival of the Brewpubs, Memorial Day weekend, in Arapahoe Basin; the Celtic Festival, late June, Keystone; Oktoberfest, mid-September, in Breckenridge.