NEDERLAND, Colo. — The small, funky Boulder County mountain town of Nederland is considering buying nearby Eldora Mountain Ski Resort . Town officials met with the board of trustees Tuesday evening to discuss the possibility.
How could a town of 1,500 people, best known for a frozen dead guy and shops that sell things made of alpaca and crystals, afford a ski resort estimated to cost between $100 and $200 million? Town Administrator Jonathan Cain says there is early interest from the community, and if that interest holds, there are paths to funding.
“We have access to a lot of things as a community that could make this work. Grants or other private programs. Public-private partnerships. Things like that. There are a lot of people in our community that really care about this place,” said Cain.
Cain calls this a “moonshot,” but it is one worth looking at.
“And I think in government, when you have an opportunity to take a moonshot, you have to look at it, and you have to explore it. We haven’t found a reason to say ‘no,’ yet. We keep just finding reasons to say ‘yes,'” Cain added.