Ashcroft Ski Touring

Great groomed trails of all levels and types (X-country, skins, skate), beautiful scenery, restaurant on the trail, and warming huts. Staff is great!

Beautiful area for some cross country skiing or snowshoeing. Very helpful staff for renting gear and some trail guidance.

Skiing at the Ashcroft Ski Touring nordic area is pure bliss. The trails are beautifully manicured for both track and skate skiing. Bring your own food or eat at the Pine Creek Cookhouse. Enjoy!

Another one of my favorite things to do w kiddos - 4 and 8- ghost town and 1.5 mile hike. One of the most beautiful views in Aspen/Snowmass.

Awesome experience. Happy fun people work here and the views are amazing.. highly recommended.

Awesome tour
Olivia was so informative and so sweet
Great gal
You are lucky to have her
Becky and Joe Austin

Great place to rent gear that clearly cares about customer safety and happiness, restaurant had good food as well!

unreal surroundings and great service / advice

Very good.

f you are ignorant tourists with no mountain experience, rent an AWD SUV and do the sleigh ride. Definitely do not do the cross-country skiing! To get to the Ashcroft ranch you have to drive about 12 miles down an occasionally plowed, snow packed, narrow, mountain road. If you are in a front-wheel drive, economy car and it starts snowing very hard you might get stuck on the road or the ranch parking lot. The Pinebrook restaurant is 1.5 miles from the Ascroft Center where you rent the cross-country skis, snow shoes, take the sleigh ride or just walk to the restaurant. Sounds simple but if you have no experience with cross country skis you won't know how to put them on or take them off let alone turn and stop. No one from the center showed us how to put the skis on or take them off. If they would have done that it would have been helpful but it seemed like they wanted us to take the lesson just for those simple instructions. If we would have known that we could have read/youtubed about how to do the basics of cross country skiing and it would have been hugely valuable. But we still would have been exhausted going 1.5 miles at 9500 ft elevation in 14 degree weather to the restaurant. So after going only 200 ft we turned around and went back to the ranch. The employees were very nice and gave us our money back. Their website and several phone calls didn't paint a realistic picture about how hard cross-country skiing is or how far the restaurant is to let two, ignorant, average physical shape, dumb tourists make an informed decision. We will be going back again someday because it looks like fun and the restaurant sounds great but we will definitely be taking the sleigh ride :).

Website says ski rental is available from thanksgiving to April, we arrived to cross country ski on 12/10 and were rudely turned away by the staff saying they were not open till 12/13. Waste of our day.

If I could give this company zero stars I would… Given that there is a pandemic currently, we requested a private carriage... not only did they not accommodate this request, they had scheduled other couples on the same tour, not abiding by social distancing guidelines… (We are a group of 5+). Not only did the carriage leave early, but when we try to seek a resolution the manager was incredibly rude and disrespectful and went so far as to tell us that we were not welcome, which is both unprofessional and just flat out disgusting. I will be seeking a complaint against this company with the Better Business Bureau as I’ve never been more respect disrespected in my life.