Red River is blessed with a number of visitors, old friends if you will, who make their way up the mountain several times a year. If home is truly where the heart is, there is no doubt where these folks reside in spirit.Only One Season?
It's a fact of life: many visitors to Red River come only once ever year or two or three or four or...Some come only during winter and have no idea what goes on in these mountains when the blankets of white are gone.
There are also summer guests who have never set foot in the valley during winter months. They see the chair lift in the heart of town, but they've never played in the Red River snow. (Brrrr!)
And how many visitors, summer and winter, have never experienced the colorful spectacle of autumn in the high country, breathtaking in a glowing veil of aspen gold?
For Everything, a Season
Since this is a summer - and autumn - guide, the question for the next few month will be: "What do you do up here in the wintertime?"We play in the snow!
Since the opening of the Red River Ski Area in 1959-60, Red River has been billed as "The Ski Town Of The Southwest." The fact that the ski area is located in the middle of town and that 80% of the town is within easy walking distance to a ski lift may be partly responsible for the title. Add to this the fact that Red River has not only an Alpine (downhill) ski area but a Nordic (cross-country) ski area - The Enchanted Forest Cross-Country Ski and Snowshoe Area located on Bobcat Pass.
The surrounding mountains are also known for excellent snowmobiling, with guided tour companies and privateers enjoying great trails and high country meadows.
You can always amuse yourself with sledding, tubing, snowman building, snowball fights, thawing out in front of a blazing fireplace log.. well, you get the idea.
There's also great live music, adventurous shopping in a wide variety of stores and shops, winter wildlife watching, and a mountain Thanksgiving and Christmas celebration. We even celebrate the Mardi Gras, mountain Cajun style.
Come check it out!
