Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn now lives in Park City, but her neighbors will have to stay at a private resort in Colorado if they want to officially ski with her this season.
Vonn will ski with guests of the private Three Forks Ranch over the course of two weeks this winter, she announced Saturday in an Instagram post. The excursions, according to an email from the ski area, will be held in Feb. 22 to March 1 and March 1-8.
Lodging at the all-inclusive resort, located on the Colorado-Wyoming border 40 miles from Steamboat Springs, Colo., starts at $1,995 per person per night in its lodge. Its two-person luxury tree houses go for close to $5,500 per room per night, an email from the lodge said, with a three-night minimum during the ski season and a five-night minimum over the winter holidays.
Three Forks Ranch has no chairlifts. Instead, according to its website, it has six “snow vehicles to whisk you up the mountain in style.” Guests then have 23 runs to pick from with a vertical drop of 1,100 feet. Most of the ski and snowboard area’s runs are intermediate and beginner (blues and greens). The resort’s website boasts, however, that it is “the only destination where grooming is curated to skier ability” and that it averages 350 inches of snow each year.
The resort, developed by St. Louis Cardinals minority owner David Pratt, also promises a 4-to-1 guest-to-guide ratio.
In her post, Vonn, 39, gushed about Three Peaks Ranch.
It “is the best experience I’ve ever had for private skiing,” she wrote. “Mountains to yourself, no lift lines and a stunning lodge to enjoy after a long day on the slopes. I can’t wait to be back out there doing what I love most.”
Vonn underwent knee replacement surgery in April to repair the loss of cushioning cartilage likely caused or exacerbated by the pressure she put on it during her skiing career. She wrote in an Instagram post that she had a “Mako Robot assisted lateral unicompartmental replacement. In other words, they cut off part of my bone and replaced it with titanium pieces.”
In a 2020 interview with US Weekly, Vonn said she’d had nine surgeries, including several on her knee. In an Instagram post, she wrote she was using her past accomplishments — possibly including being a three-time Olympic gold medalist and the only American woman to win Olympic gold in downhill skiing and definitely including a World Cup victory in Canada after missing two seasons due to knee issues — to get her through her most recent knee surgery.
In addition to skiing, during the winter Three Forks Ranch offers ice fishing, snowmobiling and biathlon. A longevity evaluation can be added to a stay for an extra $5,000 per guest.
