Snowmass Village

Also known as Snowmass Village, Colorado, Snowmass Village, CO

town in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Colorado
County: Pitkin County
Settled: About 1910
Type: Home rule municipality
Total: 27.86 sq mi (72.17 km )
Land: 27.78 sq mi (71.95 km )
Water: 0.081 sq mi (0.21 km )
Elevation: 8,309 ft (2,533 m)
Density: 111.4/sq mi (43.03/km )
Time zone: UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
Summer dst: UTC-6 ( MDT )
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Snowmass Village is a home rule municipality in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The population was 3,096 at the 2020 census. A popular winter resort location for skiing and snowboarding, the town is well known as the location of the Snowmass ski area, the largest of the four nearby ski areas operated collectively as Aspen/Snowmass. In 2010, the accidental discovery by a bulldozer operator of fossilized elements of a Pleistocene ecosystem in the ice age lake bed at the Ziegler Reservoir (commonly referred to as the Snowmastodon site) put Snowmass Village prominently on the paleontological map of North America.

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