Copper Mountain resort is located in Summit County in the centre of Colorado in the Rocky Mountains, 130kms west of Denver and east of Vail. The two chief forms of travel here are self-drive, which may involve lengthy travel times from other major US cities, or flying to Denver or Eagle airports and transferring by shuttle.

Denver International Airport is to the east of its city and receives a hundred non-stop flights a day from major destinations. Alternatively, if you’re elsewhere in the US, the even closer Eagle County Regional Airport receives flights with Delta and United Airlines, among others, from across the country.

Colorado Mountain Express shuttle service runs to Copper Mountain from both airports, and Denver also has executive vans and limos for a speedier, more comfortable transfer. By car from Denver Airport, take Pena boulevard southwest to I-70 and head west to exit 195, from where routes 91 and 1189 go to the resort (175kms; two hours).

From Eagle County Regional Airport, the 70-minute journey goes east along I-70 to exit 195, as above (100kms). Denver is fed by I-70 from Baltimore and the major north-south I-25. Amtrak trains and Greyhound buses run to Denver from surrounding states and from farther afield.