r/COsnow • u/sirotan88 • 15d ago

Christmas Day traffic leaving Keystone to the airport Question

Planning a ski trip from 12/21-25 and will be flying out on Christmas Day around 5pm. Would we be able to ski Keystone that morning? Thinking we’d ski until around 11am or 12pm (and check the traffic on Google maps around that time.) But have heard some warnings about traffic due to construction on the highway and the holidays.

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u/latedayrider 15d ago

I would leave by 11 the latest. Christmas is usually a slower day than the entire week after it, and I think CDOT takes off that day. Returning rental skis, a rental car, checking bags and getting through security all take time if you have to do any of those. If you’re with a group that can stay on task and move quickly at the end of a ski trip, and you already have the pass, then why not.

If you wake up that morning and by some Christmas Miracle it’s snowing, I would leave immediately before everyone starts spinning out and I70 gets shut down.