Hoedown Hill Windsor Ski Resort news turns on one blunt operational shift: the hill will not offer skiing, snowboarding, or tubing this winter as it moves deeper into live music and outdoor entertainment. For Fort Collins-area visitors, that means a nearby winter option is gone for the 2026-27 season, even as the property keeps building a different kind of calendar.
Tyler Lind, the CEO of TWVC Hospitality, said the company is going all in on Hoedown Hill’s music-focused future. He said, “Music has always been the heartbeat of Hoedown Hill” and added, “Every festival, we’ve watched thousands of people come together on this hill and have the time of their lives. That’s what Hoedown Hill does best, so we’re going all in on it. We can’t wait to show Northern Colorado what’s next.”
January 2024 to summer 2024
Hoedown Hill opened in January 2024 as Colorado’s newest ski resort, with beginner-friendly and terrain park skiing aimed at guests in the Fort Collins area. By the summer of 2024, it had already hosted its first music festival, and the venue has since grown into one of Northern Colorado’s premier music festival sites.
That shift is not cosmetic. The 12-acre resort hosted multiple multi-day music festivals over the past three summers, and Hoedown Hill said the festival stage has welcomed Third Eye Blind, Cold War Kids, Plain White T’s, Randy Houser, The Band Perry, Chris Lane, Asia featuring John Payne, Steve Augeri, Anna Avery, Dasha and more.
12 to 14 acres on the hill
Hoedown Hill’s winter exit lands harder because the ski side was small: about 12 to 14 acres of skiable terrain and roughly 130 to 200 feet of vertical drop. That scale made the hill a convenience for nearby skiers rather than a destination mountain, which is why the loss of even a modest local option will send winter riders farther west.
Fort Collins skiers looking to get out on the hill will have to look farther west to Loveland, Eldora, Keystone, and Winter Park. For a resort with a short ski footprint and a growing live-event business, the numbers now point in the same direction the programming does.
Summer 2027 at Hoedown Hill
Hoedown Hill has already begun planning its summer 2027 lineup, and Lind said, “The best nights at Hoedown Hill are still ahead of us. Get on the list now, because you’re going to want to hear about 2027 first.”
Hoedown Hill also said, “Any future winter programming will be announced as plans develop,” which leaves a narrow opening for snow sports to return later without promising it. For now, the hill is betting that the audiences it drew by the thousands will replace the skiers it is sending elsewhere.
