Winter Park Resort is already one of Colorado’s largest ski resorts, with the resort describing its current footprint as more than 3,095 acres of terrain across its seven territories. Under the resort’s official Winter Park Unlocked plans, one of the biggest on-mountain changes is the addition of approximately 700 acres of new skiable terrain in the Vasquez Ridge area. If that full terrain expansion is completed as outlined, Winter Park would grow to roughly 3,795 skiable acres.
That number is the clearest official answer available right now, but there is a wrinkle: not every public-facing source describes the acreage the same way. While the resort’s own early-stage priorities page says approximately 700 acres of new terrain, a 2025 Town of Winter Park news release described the broader $2 billion initiative as including 350+ acres of new skiable terrain. That suggests the buildout may happen in phases, or that some public summaries are referring only to a portion of the full terrain plan. See the released mountain master development plan below.
Either way, the expansion is not just about raw acreage. The official plan also includes upgraded lifts, a new gondola connection component, improved snowmaking, expanded dining, and better connectivity between town and resort. The Town of Winter Park’s overview highlights a town-to-resort gondola, expanded rail service, and a ski-back trail, while the resort’s early-stage priorities call for replacing the current Gemini Lift with a gondola and relocating the Looking Glass Lift to support the broader connection plan.
What makes this expansion especially notable is that it would push Winter Park into a different tier of Colorado ski resorts. At roughly 3,700 acres, Winter Park would remain smaller than Vail’s massive footprint, but it would become substantially larger than it is today and strengthen its position among the biggest destination resorts in the state. Based on the resort’s current published acreage and the planned Vasquez Ridge terrain, this is not a minor improvement — it is a meaningful scale change. That will make Winter Park the 3rd largest ski resort in Colorado, behind Vail and Steamboat.
Based on the expansion plans that have been shared so far, Winter Park will likely become the third largest ski resort in Colorado, behind only Vail and Steamboat, once the full vision is completed. While exact acreage totals may evolve as the project moves through planning and buildout, the scale of the terrain expansion is significant enough that Winter Park is expected to move into that top tier of Colorado resorts.