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K Each 31 stand-alone A-frame cabins were designed with ambiance and privacy in mind.
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yle Zeppelin grew up in Summit County in the 70s and 80s. His carefree time on the slopes embodied a purist quality preceding cell phones, EpicMix and high-speed sixpack chair lifts. So, when the founder of Zeppelin Hospitality — the award-winning development team behind Denver’s wildly popular RiNo projects The Source Hotel and Market Hall and Zeppelin Station — conceived his latest attraction, he wanted to celebrate Colorado’s rich ski culture lineage while treating guests to a modern mountain experience. The answer: The A-Frame Club, a throwback to classic, time-honored mountain hospitality with cabins and a historic saloon situated on three acres in historic Old Town Winter Park. “A-Frame Club is taking mountain hospitality back to the heyday for skiing in the 70s and 80s that I grew up with,” says Zeppelin. “It’s a throwback to a simpler time with cabins at the base of the ski hill that
open up directly to the forest and a turned up party in the lodge.” The project’s throwback Saloon opened in December 2022, and the first A-Frame cabins opened the following month, drawing locals and Front Rangers with stylish, 1970s-inspired design nods, elevated culinary offerings and an expansive patio. “The response has been overwhelmingly strong and positive,” says Zeppelin development COO Adam Larkey. “The locals who remember the old Adolf's days have been so appreciative that we leaned into the history of the property and kept as much as we could, like the actual wooden bar itself.” Developers tapped Portland-based Skylab Architects to shape the 31 standalone, 475-square-foot A-Frame cabins with privacy and ambiance in mind — a geometric snowflake-shaped elevated boardwalk connects the cabins, preserving existing pine trees while creating a natural, wooded, together-but-separate community. Constructed with cedar, fir and birch
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Winter Park’s New A-Frame Club is a 1970s-Inspired Mountain Experience
