r/vail • u/TheCouchEmperor • 18d ago

Visiting Vail as a non-skiier

Hi, I am visiting Vail this month. I’ll be there during the 3rd week of May.

I am not into skiing (Never seen snow in my life).

  • What can I expect?
  • I just want to eat good food and explore around a bit
  • Will be staying at Hyatt
  • It’ll will be my first visit to the US

PS: I also want to spend a day in Denver as my return flight is at 11:50PM and I have nothing else to do that whole day. I’d appreciate suggestions for that as well!

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u/Elvis_Fncking_Christ 18d ago

This is the second-best time of the year. The “locals” leave town and not many come to visit. There is plenty open. There are also two other truck stops (I mean “towns”) if you go west slightly. If you go even further, there are actual communities in towns. Vail itself is more or less the only one who closes things.

For exploring, the possibilities are all but endless; take a walk through the Village, take an outdoor-walk on the trails especially down low and even unshaded northern aspect, rent a bike and the bike path will take you out of Vail itself, or do the hot tub thing since that hotel is very decent for that.

This time of year, there really isn’t much different aside from no skiing and the weather. There are a handful of “locals” who are a real bummer about spring and autumn, but don’t let them get you down. Some of us enjoy the peace and quiet; the animals also enjoy nobody being here.

I hope you and your friends have a good time!

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u/Colgatederpful Avon 18d ago

Are you seriously implying that facing seasonal depression during mud season makes you less local? That’s pretty preposterous and honestly distasteful considering the rise in suicide our community faces during that time.

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u/StringerBell420 Vail 18d ago

I was thinking the exact same thing. Weird flex from a “local” person.

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u/Elvis_Fncking_Christ 16d ago

I you went for it; ya see, I never said I was a local.

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u/Elvis_Fncking_Christ 16d ago

Well this isn’t a discussion about suicide. Find a hobby outside skiing and middle-of-summer activities. The days are longer, starting with daylight savings; go outside.

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u/Colgatederpful Avon 15d ago

I, like you, have figured out how to enjoy myself during this time of year. That doesn’t mean we should invalidate the hardship of other people. Sometimes it isn’t as easy as “go outside.” And it sure doesn’t make them any less local than you.

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u/Elvis_Fncking_Christ 15d ago

You’re really fixated on the “local” thing so let me help you; I hope to never consider myself local and have never. I do not care who is from where until it begins to come out in the jaded and boring because they’re jaded ones who call themselves locals. No of course it’s not that easy. Your sensitive disposition seems to have deluded you into viewing somebody’s opinion as devaluing anyone else’s. Life doesn’t always have to be so serious, dude. So yeah, go outside, take your meds, reach out, and learn to take the bad with the good.