Colorado’s oldest operating ski lift began service on Aspen Mountain seven decades ago. Now, the relic, called Segundo, is running out its final days before being replaced at Sunlight ski area.
Colorado’s oldest operating ski lift began service on Aspen Mountain seven decades ago when that resort was emerging as one of America’s most glamorous. For the past 50 years it has been hauling skiers slowly up the slopes of the modest Sunlight ski area near Glenwood Springs, running at half the speed of today’s advanced lifts.
“It’s the same age I am,” he added. “I was born in ’54, and so was this chairlift. It’s old enough to collect social security.” “Sunlight speaks to a different era,” said Jankovsky, now a Garfield County commissioner. “It’s not like our neighbors. Anywhere else in the nation, it’d be considered a good-sized ski area, but not in Colorado.”
Skiers ride the Segundo lift at Sunlight Mountain Resort in Glenwood Springs, Colorado on Feb. 25, 2023. The Segundo lift is the oldest working lift in the state and will be replaced next season. Mike Morgan was part of the crew that poured concrete foundations for the lift the summer of 1973. He was a teenager and he needed a summer job. His father, Lee, was Sunlight’s general manager. He remembers riding the lift for the first time that December.
The replacement lift for the current Segundo lift sits ready for installation in the maintenance lot at Sunlight Mountain Resort in Glenwood Springs, Colorado on Feb. 25, 2023.
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