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Vail Resorts to acquire Crested Butte, three other resorts

DENVER — Vail Resorts has announced that it is buying Crested Butte Mountain Resort and two other resorts from the Mueller family, making The Butte its fifth Colorado ski resort along with Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone.

Vail will be paying the Muellers $82 million to acquire Triple Peaks LLC — which owns Crested Butte, Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont and Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire — while also providing Triple Peaks $155 million to pay off leases owed to another resort company, Ski Resort Holdings. In a separate deal, Vail will pay $67 million to acquire the Stevens Pass ski area in Washington state. Vail Resorts’ Epic Pass will be good at Crested Butte and its other new acquisitions next season.

“The most important piece for us in any acquisition is that we’re adding a unique experience to the Epic Pass,” Vail Resorts chief executive Rob Katz said in an interview. “I think with Crested Butte, we feel like it is one of the most unique resorts within Colorado — the history, the original town and the mining component of it, kind of western feel, and the terrain. I think the terrain at Crested Butte is some of most challenging in the state, and I think there is a kind of authenticity to the town and how the town and the mountain interact. From what we’ve heard from a lot of our (Epic Pass holders), this is something that would really interest them.

Read the full story at DenverPost.com.


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