Colorado directory
Meet Colorado social ski clubs, affinity groups, backcountry communities, ski buses, and local organizations built around sharing mountain days.
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These groups make it easier to find partners, transportation, instruction, trips, and a sense of belonging on snow. Some focus on a region or pass, while others serve women, LGBTQ+ participants, BIPOC communities, families, or older adults.
Search the full directory →Front Range / statewide
Born in Colorado in 2023, Backcountry Beauties helps women find touring partners through an app, recurring Front Range and Summit County meetups, educational sessions, resort days, and member-organized adventures around the state.
For Women seeking touring partners and education
Denver / Aurora / Colorado Springs
BIPOC Mountain Collective links Black, Indigenous, and other people of color through Colorado ski days, seasonal festivals, and year-round outdoor events, with active communities around Denver, Aurora, and Colorado Springs.
For BIPOC mountain participants and allies
Golden / statewide
Colorado Mountain Club pairs volunteer-led ski trips with a deep education ladder, from introductory Nordic and touring courses to avalanche training, telemark instruction, and ski mountaineering for major alpine objectives.
For Adults building mountain skills from introductory to advanced
Denver / Front Range
This Denver-based Meetup helps more than 2,000 skiers and snowboarders turn pass access into actual ski partners, using carpools, on-mountain meetups, group travel, and low-key Front Range happy hours.
For All skill levels
Boulder
Founded by Lake Eldora instructors in 1963, this Boulder volunteer club mixes destination alpine and Nordic outings with snowshoeing, weekly hikes, potlucks, paddling, game nights, books, and seasonal parties.
For Adults; membership trends toward ages 50–70
Berthoud Pass / Front Range
Founded by patrollers and backcountry riders in 2003, Friends of Berthoud Pass protects a Front Range touring landmark through free avalanche awareness, public-access advocacy, volunteer instructor development, and hands-on stewardship.
For Winter backcountry travelers
Pagosa Springs / Wolf Creek
Gray Wolf serves the over-50 community around Pagosa Springs and Wolf Creek, combining ski-area benefits with subsidized lodge lunches, local discounts, happy hours, and a notably large senior membership.
For Adults age 50+ and qualifying partners
Fort Collins / Northern Colorado
A small Fort Collins Meetup built for practical coordination: local members gather about every three weeks to find ski partners, share rides and lodging costs, discuss skill development, and plan resort or off-season outings.
For Northern Colorado skiers and riders
Denver / Front Range
OUT on the Slopes gives Denver-area LGBTQ+ skiers, snowboarders, and supportive allies a recurring mountain crew, pairing ability-labeled resort days with preseason happy hours and occasional dinners in the city.
For LGBTQ+ skiers, riders, and friends
Copper Mountain Resort
This independent 50-plus Summit County club extends Copper Mountain’s guided Over the Hill Gang ski program into après gatherings, dinners, cycling, rafting, volunteering, theater outings, and a summer picnic.
For Skiers age 50+
Denver metro
Satellite’s roughly 100 adult members build their season around five to seven overnight trips, from affordable Colorado weekends to Utah and international destinations, with monthly meetings, picnics, and summer potlucks keeping the group connected.
For Adults age 21+
Breckenridge / Front Range membership
Schussbaumer is a private recreation club organized around a member chalet near Breckenridge’s Four O’Clock Run—a 6,000-square-foot bunkhouse with 18 bedrooms, large communal rooms, a kitchen, and a four-tap bar.
For Private adult membership; waitlist currently full
Statewide
Colorado’s SheJumps volunteers turn a national nonprofit mission into local outdoor education and community events, serving women, girls, and nonbinary people through regional coordinators based from Durango and Steamboat to Denver and Boulder.
For Women, girls, and nonbinary people in the women’s community
Denver / statewide
Ski Gals Colorado is a women’s partner-finding community founded in 2022, using its BFF group and social channels to arrange all-level ski and snowboard meetups, themed mountain days, and off-slope introductions.
For Women of all ability levels
Denver
Founded in Denver in 2018, Ski Noir 5280 lowers the practical barriers facing Black and Brown newcomers by bundling reduced-cost transportation, lift access, lessons, equipment, winter clothing, and an affirming mountain community.
For Primarily Black and Brown Colorado communities
Denver metro
A founding National Brotherhood of Skiers club, Slippers-N-Sliders has promoted skiing in Denver’s Black community since 1972 and has introduced more than 2,000 children to the sport through Ski For Kids.
For Adults, families, and youth ages 4–18
Colorado Springs
Southern Colorado’s oldest nonprofit ski club has operated since 1952, pairing member-run destination trips with twice-monthly winter gatherings, a Vail tradition, and a busy warm-season calendar of hiking, biking, pickleball, concerts, and parties.
For Adults age 21+
Frisco / Summit County
Summit 50 Plus connects adults through weekly alpine ski days at Breckenridge and Keystone, a cross-country group, annual Winter Games, and year-round activities, extending a Summit County community organization with more than four decades of history.
For Adults age 50+; supporting members under 50
Summit County
Operating in Summit County since 2011, this nonprofit grows ski mountaineering through loaner race gear, free community clinics, social tours, event volunteering, access advocacy, and a coached after-school pathway for local teenagers.
For Adult members plus middle- and high-school youth
Denver metro to mountain resorts
For more than four decades, Thera-ski Bus has given women a midweek route from Denver to the slopes: ten Wednesday motor-coach trips, two pickup points, no required ability level, and a sponsor-based membership culture.
For Women of all snow ability levels
Denver metro
For more than 50 years, Denver’s volunteer-run Up The Creek has paired ski buses and destination trips with Friday happy hours and a huge recreation calendar spanning hiking, golf, volleyball, boating, concerts, and summer travel.
For Adults age 21+; singles and couples