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RESORTDEVELOPER.COM vacation industry review
APRIL – JUNE 2015 BRECKENRIDGE GRAND
VACATIONS
By Joyce Hadley Copeland
Since 1985, has been front and center in
the ski area, operating three family-friendly resorts — including two ski-in/ski-
out properties — with a fourth under construction at the base of Peak 8, still
the main portal to the Breckenridge Ski Resort.
A Family of 20,000
“Just this fall, we welcomed our 20,000th family to our family of owners,” says
Rob Millisor, one of the three founding partners of Breckenridge Grand
Vacations. Together with his brother, Mike, and Mike Dudick, Millisor launched
the company with seven employees, operating Gold Point Condominiums at
1,000 vertical feet (305 meters) above Main Street in Breckenridge. With each
new resort, the trio upped the ante, combining spacious quarters, world-class
amenities, and slope-side convenience.
During peak ski season, 155 trails — reliably blanketed in an average 25
feet (7 meters) of powder and linked via a network of high-speed lifts and con-
necting gondolas — offer something for every skill level, from hike-in skiing in
Serenity Bowl on Peak 6 to the double black-diamond runs of Peak 10. Grand
Timber Lodge is tucked between Peaks 8 and 9, steps from the Snowflake
Lift, and Grand Lodge on Peak 7 is on the BreckConnect gondola route with
easy access to the Independence SuperChair.
The new promises to set an even higher stan-
dard for luxury just feet from the Colorado SuperChair and Rocky Mountain
Quad — universally regarded as the best address in Breckenridge.
“People come for the ski season, but they stay for the summer,” Millisor
says. And, indeed, the rest of the year is equally spectacular in this all-season
GRAND COLORADO ON PEAK 8
Breckenridge was a prosperous
mining town in the Colorado Rockies
when Tom’s Baby, a gold nugget
weighing more than 13 pounds (6
kilograms), was unearthed there in
1887. Less than a century later, the
town opened another vein — this
one of white gold —with
In 1961,
there were seven runs, a double
chairlift, and a beginner T-bar on
12,998-foot (3,962 meters) Peak 8.
Today, “Breck” encompasses five
numbered peaks (6 to 10) of the
Tenmile Range west of the
Continental Divide.
Year-Round Fun
No Better Address for