I skied Loveland last weekend and had a blast, good level of greens for beginners and Blues/blacks for intermediate/advanced. I just want to note I’m a lifelong skier whose skied in numerous places (CO, NE USA, NZ, Canada, CA) so I feel like I know what I’m talking about

I skied here on a Friday and then Keystone on Saturday and can honestly say my experience at Loveland for the money was way better than keystone. If you’re a family I recommend Loveland over keystone to be honest. While Loveland is smaller there’s enough to ski for 1-2 day ski trip. The trails were well marked and groomed. It wasn’t as crowded and the price was WAY BETTER.

Spent 129 total for ski rental (I have boots) and lift pass (94$). For that price Loveland IS WORTH IT, if it goes higher idk to be honest but as of 2022 for the price the value is amazing.

PROS: EXCELLENT beginner ski price where you get a valley pass, lessons and skis for 150$. Great price for beginners

GREAT PRICE: this is one of the few independent non Vail/ikon resorts and it’s 94$ to get a pass day of on a Friday and rentals are reasonable. It would have been 139$ with rentals but I had boots so I paid 129$ for the day

Surprisingly big mountain, there’s the valley and the basin and you can definitely ski here for a day or 2 before seeing everything.

Crowds-everyone wants to go to big name resorts, so this perfectly capable mountain gets overlooked. This place is great and underrated

Cons: ate on the Valley side of the mountain and the food was cafeteria level garbage but still the garbage at Loveland was cheaper than the garbage at keystone That said Keystone has a lovely village to get non garbage food and Loveland doesn’t so that’s the one way keystone was better.

Difficult greens, while I’m a lifelong skier I took my friends who had one lesson and the green was a struggle for them, mainly easy except for 1 or 2 steep parts, but overall they got down, just was harder than I thought it should be

The park could use more decent jumps, everything led to a grind/wasn’t any big jumps. Also usually park crew will put some jumps in more difficult runs on the side of the trail and I didn’t really find those here

Overall this resort is the best bang for your buck for non season pass holders. The skiing is great, it has beginner friendly pricing (if you can only ride greens do you really need to go to vail?). I HIGHLY RECOMMEND coming here if you’re a family on a budget, new to the mountains or just don’t want to pay an exorbitant price to ski on a crowded mountain.