Vail
Elevation 8,120’
Originally a Ranching Community, Vail, is now North America’s largest and most popular ski destination.
Comprising 5,289 skiable acres and 33 lifts.
A favorite saying in the Vail Valley, “You come for the winter, but you stay for the summer”.
Vail has the largest free transit system of any where in the nation.
The county is comprised of over ten separate towns and unincorporated communities. Avon, Arrowhead, Beaver Creek, Bachelor Gulch, Eagle,Eagle-Vail, Edwards, Gypsum, Minturn, Vail, and Wolcott. Together they are known as the Vail Valley, each with its own small-town ambiance and flavor.
The Vail Valley can be described as the ideal place to live with a balance of recreation, incredible amenities and a beautiful small town environment surrounded with mountain vistas of the Gore Range, and the summers a blaze of color from fields of wild flowers.
In the 2000 census, Eagle County had a population of over 40,000. There is a diverse culture comprised of many nationalities.