ABOUT THE Winter MOUNTAIN GAMES
The best all-around mountain experience anywhere in the world comes to Vail when the Winter Mountain Games gets underway February 25-27, 2022.
Thousands of pro and amateur adventure athletes sign up each year and converge upon the mountains of Vail to compete in 4 disciplines and more than 8 competitions including fat tire bike racing, skimo, snowshoe, bootlegger, and more.
The competitions are just the beginning. The event also features the Mountains of Music LIVE concert series throughout the weekend.
The Winter Mountain Games are a project of the nonprofit Vail Valley Foundation, which has a mission to enhance quality of life in the Vail Valley through arts, athletics, and education.
The Vail Valley Foundation is a 501c3 Colorado nonprofit corporation with a mission to enhance the quality of life in the Vail Valley and showcase our community to a global audience through arts, athletics and education.
The organization’s work in education is through YouthPower365, a 501c3 Colorado nonprofit corporation with a mission to provide year-round extended learning opportunities that empower and educate the youth and families of Eagle County from cradle-to-career readiness. The Vail Valley Foundation also provides the Vail Valley with several of its most treasured annual events, such as the GoPro Mountain Games, the Xfinity Birds of Prey Audi FIS Ski World Cup races, the Vail Dance Festival, and the Hot Summer Nights and ShowDown Town free concert series. The Vail Valley Foundation also manages and operates two performing arts centers, the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek Village and the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, providing more than 100 Broadway, dance, comedy, classical, rock, pop, jazz, community and family events per year.
In addition, the VVF actively supports other nonprofit organizations by annually distributing grants to partners making the Vail Valley a better place to live, work, and visit.
