Locals Day

Durango Mountain Resort is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of Locals Benefit Days. As part of its annual program, Durango Mountain Resort will host four Locals Benefit Days with portions of the ticket sales benefiting local non-profit organizations.  This year’s dates and recipients are: 

Dec. 18, 2011   Durango Foundation for Educational Excellence

Jan. 22, 2012    Community Connections, Inc.

Feb. 12, 2012    Durango Independent Film Festival

Mar. 25, 2012    Durango Devo

Discounted lift tickets will be sold on the above dates with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the designated local non-profit organizations.  Locals Benefit Day lift tickets are $40 adults; $32 students/seniors; and $25 children.  Locals Benefit Day lift ticket coupons are available at http://www.durangotelegraph.com.

Since its inception in 1992, Durango Mountain Resort’s Locals Benefit Days have generated more than $250,000 for Durango-area charities. Past Benefit Day recipients include the Silverton Avalanche School, Mercy Health Foundation, Trails 2000, Riverhouse Children’s Center Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County, Manna Soup Kitchen, Music in the Mountains’ “Goes to School” program, La Plata Search and Rescue, the United Way, the FLC Community Concert Hall Fund, the La Plata County Historical Society, the La Plata County Humane Society, the San Juan Mountain Association, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of La Plata County, the Durango World Cup, Southwest Colorado Cares (9/11 Tragedy), the San Juan Mountain Association, the Durango Arts Center, Volunteers of America, the Durango Discovery Museum, the Durango Winter Sports Foundation, Durango Nature Studies and the American Red Cross.

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