Scenic route
Winter Park Express
Denver → Winter Park · United States
Winter Park Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 90 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 11 min
- Average speed
- 41 km/h
- Top speed
- 95 km/h
- Operator
- Amtrak
- Train
- Superliner bi-level cars
- Countries
- United States
- In service since
- 2017
- Runs
- Fri–Sun (plus Thu Jan–Mar), mid-Dec–late Mar
- Highest point
- 2,816 m
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Amtrak’s revived ski train climbs more than 1,100 m through 28 tunnels and spills skiers out steps from Winter Park’s lifts.
Denver’s ski train tradition began in 1940, and Amtrak revived it in 2017 with bi-level Superliners running straight to the snow. The route stair-steps up the Front Range through 28 tunnels and the S-curves above Boulder, then bursts from the 10 km Moffat Tunnel beneath the Continental Divide only steps from Winter Park’s lifts: the only ski-in rail arrival in the United States.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 13938481 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Amtrak schedules — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Big Ten Curve
- Flatiron foothills and 28 tunnels
- South Boulder Canyon
- Moffat Tunnel under James Peak
- Ski-in arrival at Winter Park base
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