Hello friend,
Welcome to the Wedgewood Lodge, slope-side, next to Snowflake Lift. Snowflake is a one-of-a-kind two-person lift that has a mid-load station and 70-degree turn to put you at Peak 8. It’s personally one of my favorite lifts of all time especially when snow is quietly falling, blanketing the landscape in Colorado’s legendary white powder.
We’re extremely stoked that you have chosen Breckenridge, and even more so that you’re staying with us. We pride ourselves in being a long-standing boutique experience, with studio spaces to three bedroom townhomes. We’re still family-owned and operated and specialize in group travel and weddings. Whether you’re here for the ski season or a summer getaway, we are only a few blocks from Main Street and just a stones throw from the slopes where you can ride and hike.
We renovated in 2023–2024 and within that renovation we decided to customize each and every space with unique historic photographs curated by me (Jules)! The artwork in your unit is unique to you and contains a piece of Breck’s history. In addition, you’ll see some of my own photographs sprinkled throughout the space. Each unit is also named after a run somewhere in Breck’s 3,000+ acres, with the story behind it explained below. Unfortunately, we only have 52 units, so a lot of runs were left unmentioned but we hope that you get to explore as much as you can. At Wedgewood, we love where we live and want to display how far the town has come. Thanks for coming, and enjoy your stay.
How to get to Springmeier.
In the summer of 1961, the first runs on Peak 8 were built, Springmeier being one of them along with Callie’s Alley, Rounders, Spruce, and others. When you ski this run, you’re skiing a part of Breck’s history. To get there, you can take Snowflake Chair from our backyard and then transfer to 5-Chair or Colorado SuperChair. It’s a fun family zone, rated as a green run but a bit harder than Peak 9’s Silverthorne and Red Rover. You can also learn how to tree ski here as long as they are open.
The gap in time.
This unit is focused on finding photos of a lost time period in Breckenridge. In between the golden days of mining and the ski resort opening in the 1960’s, Breck almost disappeared due to population decline. A group of individuals kept the town alive, but there is not a lot of photo documentation of this time period between the 1920s and late 1950s. Here is a few things that I was able to find.
From top to bottom:
COLORADO ANNEXATION — Strip of “No Man’s Land.”: Published Tuesday 7 July 1936, Original creator: Queensland Times. Queenslands Times, found on Trove.
Relics of the boom days in gold mining: A man and boys pose on the engine of a mine tramway at an abandoned mine near Dillon (Summit County), Colorado. The mine shafthouse and ore cars are nearby. Original creator: Published July 1925; Dunning, Harold M.. Denver Public Library Special Collections, X-62393”
Colorado & Southern buildings (narrow gauge): Depot. Photographed: Breckenridge, Colo., February 22, 1934. Original creator: Published 22 Feb, 1934; Perry, Otto, 1894–1970. Denver Public Library Special Collections, OP-6380
Flag raising Aug. 1936 by Gov. Johnson in which the disputed strip of land was formally annexed: This view of a flag raising ceremony outside of the Summit County Courthouse in Breckenridge, Colorado, includes the large scale two story brick structure, with a hipped gable roof and a cupola with paired sash windows on each of its four sides. The building’s sills, lintels, upper string courses and pendants are of local stone. The main cornice of the building is dentiled, and the projecting entry to the left has frieze work in the upper pediment. The lower pediment, topping a striped canvas awning, has “Summit County” on its base. A large crowd is in the foreground, surrounding a wooden flagpole with an American flag at the top and a Colorado state flag being hoisted. A professional movie camera on a tripod is in the left foreground Original creator: August 1936; Unidentified. Denver Public Library Special Collections, X-912
View of Ten Mile Range from Ore Bucket Lodge, Breckenridge: View from Ore Bucket Lodge over Breckenridge residences, Summit County, Colorado, shows the Ten Mile Range in the distance under cloudy skies. Original creator: 1940–1966; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898–1977. Denver Public Library Special Collections, X-5552”
Monte Cristo Gulch on Hoosier Pass: A herd of sheep walk near a dilapidated log cabin in Monte Cristo Gulch near Breckenridge, in Summit County, Colorado. Original creator: 1953; Wolle, Muriel Sibell, 1898–1977. Denver Public Library Special Collections, X-3566
