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 there.
This run is a thigh burning tree run found on Peak 10 between Crystal and Corsair; it spits you out onto Upper Lehman. It being a good leg burner is not why the run was named this, although it could be a good alternative reason. It was named after a forest fire that struck the area in the early 20th century and nearly reached Breckenridge in the valley below. If you look closely or are visiting during the summertime, you can still see some of the burnt stumps. It’s a single black diamond and is a great place to be on a powder day. You can lap this run on Peak 10’s Falcon Super Chair. We recommend only attempting The Burn if you’re comfortable turning in trees on steep terrain.
A special historic gallery about gold panning.
This gallery features many exclusive photos from an incredible amateur photographer named Mary Marks. She documented her life in the Rockies; from trips taken to find mining sites to her playful and loving marriage with her husband. This specific gallery emphasizes the gold panning portions of her photography. With historical significance and a great glimpse into daily life of the mining days, I consider Marks as far from amateur. Read more about the collection here. If you want to try gold panning for yourself, head to Country Boy Mine, about a five minute drive from town.
From top to bottom:
Negative, Glass Plate: No description. My description: Mary Marks and husband John squatting down in the dirt, looking at each other. Mary is holding a cup and a gold pan. Original creator: Uknown date. Mary Marks. Summit Historical Society Collection. Image created by Breckenridge History, Colorado.
Negative, Glass Plate: Spruce Creek ditch and headgate of the Gold Pan Mining Company’s hydraulic mining operations, south of Breckenridge, Colorado in the summer of 1900. A man with a shovel stands in ankle deep water downstream from the headgate, which diverts water from the creek into the ditch. On the ground above another man takes a break from cutting wood boards with an axe. Original creator: 1900; Mary Marks. Summit Historical Society Collection. Image created by Breckenridge History, Colorado.
Negative, Glass Plate: No description. My description: Two men tend to a fire while another man is kneeling in the dirt doing something in front of a white tent. The tent and men are at the base of a hill covered in bushes. Original creator: Unknown date; Mary Marks. Summit Historical Society Collection. Image created by Breckenridge History, Colorado.
Negative, Glass Plate: Mary Marks, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, pans for gold in the lower Blue River valley, Summit County, Colorado in 1897. Original creator: 1897; Mary Marks. Summit Historical Society Collection. Image created by Breckenridge History, Colorado.
Negative, Glass Plate: Mary Marks’ sister, Katherine (Kate) Schwalbach, pans for Negative, Glass Plate gold in the lower Blue River valley, Summit County, Colorado in 1897. She wears a dark bodice with patterned puffed sleeves and a brimmed hat high on her head. Original creator: 1897; Mary Marks. Summit Historical Society Collection. Image created by Breckenridge History, Colorado.
Negative, Glass Plate: The Blount brothers pan for gold on their placer claim in the Blue River valley, near the former townsite of Dillon, Colorado in 1898. Their father, Frederick Blount, was president of the Oro Grande Placer Mining Company. Original creator: 1898; Mary Marks. Summit Historical Society Collection. Image created by Breckenridge History, Colorado.
