Peak 9
C-Chair
A long climb on a double.
The C-Chair is a two-seater with 1,253 feet of vertical, more than most of the SuperChairs. If you're heading up Peak 9, Mercury or Beaver Run will get you there much faster.
Best of Breck
Breckenridge’s fastest and slowest lifts
Which Breck chairs are high-speed SuperChairs and which are slow fixed-grip lifts, with vertical for every one.
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Know your lifts
Fast lifts, slow lifts
Breck has 12 high-speed chairlifts, all called SuperChairs, plus the gondola. Everything else is a fixed-grip chair or a surface lift, and the difference matters. A long ride on a slow double can take as long as two laps on a six-pack.
The resort doesn't publish ride times for every lift, so we've sorted them by type and listed the vertical each one climbs, from the official trail map. More vertical on a slow chair means a long, cold ride.
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- High-speed chairs12
- Six-packsColorado, Independence, Kensho, Quicksilver, Falcon
- Shortest rideImperial, about 2.7 min
- Slowest long rideC-Chair, a double
12 high-speed lifts
The fast ones
Every SuperChair at Breck is a detachable lift. The chairs slow down to load, then speed up on the cable. These are the lifts to build your day around.
| Lift | Where | Type | Vertical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peak 8 SuperConnect | Peak 9 to Peak 8 | High-speed quad | 1,424 ft |
| Kensho SuperChair | Peak 6 | High-speed six-pack | 1,536 ft |
| Independence SuperChair | Peak 7 | High-speed six-pack | 1,320 ft |
| Freedom SuperChair | Peak 7 | High-speed quad | 1,037 ft |
| Colorado SuperChair | Peak 8 | High-speed six-pack | 1,325 ft |
| Rocky Mountain SuperChair | Peak 8 | High-speed quad | 1,248 ft |
| Five SuperChair | Peak 8 | High-speed quad | 990 ft |
| Imperial SuperChair | Peak 8 | High-speed quad | 939 ft |
| Quicksilver SuperChair | Peak 9 | High-speed six-pack | 632 ft |
| Mercury SuperChair | Peak 9 | High-speed quad | 1,466 ft |
| Beaver Run SuperChair | Peak 9 | High-speed quad | 1,591 ft |
| Falcon SuperChair | Peak 10 | High-speed six-pack | 1,404 ft |
8 fixed-grip chairs and surface lifts
The slow ones
Fixed-grip chairs move at one speed all the way up, which is slower. Most of these are short, beginner lifts or serve expert terrain where a slow ride is the price of fewer people.
| Lift | Where | Type | Vertical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zendo Chair | Peak 7 to Peak 6 | Quad chair | 317 ft |
| Rip’s Ride | Peak 8 | Quad chair | 306 ft |
| Horseshoe Bowl T-Bar | Peak 8 | T-bar | 1,234 ft |
| 6-Chair | Peak 8 Back Bowls | Double chair | 990 ft |
| Snowflake | Peak 8, from town | Double chair | 631 ft |
| A-Chair | Peak 9 | Triple chair | 620 ft |
| C-Chair | Peak 9 | Double chair | 1,253 ft |
| E-Chair | Peak 9 | Double chair | 967 ft |
Speed tips
Worth knowing
Peak 8
6-Chair
Slow, but worth it.
The 6-Chair is a double that serves the Back Bowls. It's slow, but it keeps the crowds down and the bowls are some of the best black terrain at Breck.
Peak 8
Colorado SuperChair
About seven minutes.
It's one of the longer SuperChair rides, about 6 minutes 50 seconds from the Peak 8 base to Vista Haus, according to skiresort.info. It's a six-pack, so the line moves quickly even when it looks long.
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