Shipping Your Skis to Breckenridge

Where Your Skis Go in Breckenridge (Not the Base)

You can't ship skis to the Peak 8 or Peak 9 base areas or the BreckConnect Gondola, but you can ship them to your Breckenridge hotel, your condo's front desk, or the UPS Store at 400 N Park Ave, and carry them to the lift from there.

Beaver Run Resort, 620 Village Rd, publishes its prices: $25 to receive luggage, ski and snowboard bags and large boxes, $20 for envelopes and small boxes, and $5 a day for storage beyond five days. It takes UPS and FedEx only (USPS does not deliver), addressed to the registered guest.

Grand Colorado on Peak 8, 1627 Ski Hill Rd, accepts UPS and FedEx packages and charges $8 a day for small packages and $14 a day for large ones stored before arrival. Gravity Haus Breckenridge, 605 S Park Ave, says guests can ship items if they call first, and it offers free ski lockers. One Ski Hill Place lists ski storage, private lockers and a ski concierge but no package fee, so ask for the package fee and the label format when you book.

The UPS Store is at 400 N Park Ave, Ste 12-B, in the City Market center, open seven days. Call for the hold-for-pickup fee. Summit County has no FedEx Office store. The closest FedEx counter is the FedEx Ship Center in Silverthorne. Confirm the address and weekday hours with FedEx before you ship there.

The Town licenses short-term rentals by zone and requires the license number in every listing. A rental has no front desk, so confirm with the host that someone can receive a ski bag, or ship to the UPS Store.

Label the bag with the guest name as booked, your arrival date, "Hold for guest," and the street address. Ship to arrive two to three days before you do, inside Beaver Run's five free storage days, and track it.

If you want your skis carried to the hotel ski locker by a courier who hands them over in person, that's our sister service, Luggage Forward. LugLess ships by FedEx and UPS, so your ski bag goes to your hotel, your condo desk or the UPS Store in Breckenridge, and you carry it to the gondola.

Skiing at 9,600 Feet Is Reason Enough to Travel Light

Breckenridge altitude starts at 9,600 feet in town and reaches 12,998 at the summit. The town's tourism office lists headaches, dizziness, nausea, poor sleep and fatigue as first-day symptoms, and advises doubling your water intake and taking the first day easy. For more, read the CDC Yellow Book chapter on high-elevation travel. Arrival day is a bad day to haul a 40 lb ski bag across a parking lot.

The Imperial Express SuperChair tops out at 12,840 feet, North America's highest chairlift. Breckenridge has five peaks (6 through 10), 355 inches of average snowfall, 35 lifts and 187 runs.

For Breckenridge ski storage once your skis arrive, the resort runs ski check at Peak 8, across from the gondola entrance, and at Peak 9, near the Quicksilver and Beaver Run lifts, plus daily and overnight lockers at both bases. Prices aren't published, so ask at the ski check or your hotel.

Flying with Skis into Denver, If You Still Want To

Airline ski bag fees and rules vary. Delta, American and Southwest each count one ski bag plus one boot bag as a single checked item. Over 50 lb, the overweight fee applies. American and Southwest waive oversize fees; Delta won't accept an item over 115 linear inches.

Frontier limits checked bags to 40 lb, with overweight charges of $75 to $129 per bag; check the current rule for skis. For United, check the current rule.

Then add the bus or shuttle leg and its bag limits, and compare airline baggage fees with the cost of shipping.