Vail Mountain and Beaver Creek is a mammoth seven miles long and it is renowned for being the largest ski resort in the United States. In fact, the area is so big that even on a busy day there are just four skiers per acre! Now that is really impressive as most ski resorts do not have enough room on the slopes to move your elbow let alone ski. The mountain has a total of 33 lifts which conveniently transports people up the slope and the waiting time not long even on weekends when the weekend crowd streams into the area.