I have 5 hours to ski while in Denver. Im debating between skiing in Loveland and Copper Mountain.?

Which should I choose? Loveland is an hour and ten minutes away and Copper Mountain is over an hour and a half away. Which is worth it? Loveland is also seven dollars cheaper.I have 5 hours to ski while in Denver. Im debating between skiing in Loveland and Copper Mountain.?
copper mountain is much futher away, about 45 minutes. it is also way more touristy. loveland is a smaller mountain, but thats ok. if you save seven dollars, then go to loveland. also, if you are goin on a saturday, LEAVE early. one time i left denver at 7 am and i got stuck in 6 hours of bumper to bumper traffic on my way to vail. also, consider winter park. winter park is owned by intrawest (who ownes copper) and it is closer to denver. it will probably have less traffic, too.
Copper is better, but given your time constraint I would go to loveland. I am sure that it takes more than 20 minutes to get from loveland to copper most days.



I've skied both and Loveland's biggest drawback it is windy, but it has been nice lately so I say loveland.I have 5 hours to ski while in Denver. Im debating between skiing in Loveland and Copper Mountain.?
go loveland!!

i snoboad there all the time!

great snows,runs and pretty safe off trail

copper is too over priced and too many people

hope it helps
Copper is only 20min from loveland not 45 but with only your limited amount of time I would say loveland is would be better. The only downside to loveland is that it gets realy windy so dress warm.
With only very limited time, a few thoughts:



First, no way you will get anywhere from Denver to any ski venue on the weekend in anything approaching an hour. Those times sound pretty optimistic for during the week under the best of circumstances.



If you aren't able to go during the week, you might want to consider Echo Mountain. It is more snowboarding and free style ski but is much closer to Denver, and the turnoffs are before the weekend traffic really starts to jam up.



http://www.echomt.com/
Coppr is the best ski, however five hours is crunching it, Loveland is okay but to get the goos ski expeirence go Copper.,