A-Basin was open through the 4th of July this year. Plenty of opportunity to ski in the morning, golf in the afternoon throughout April-May-June-July. It (or Loveland) will open again in October.
Hey, no one is forcing anyone to go to college in the snow, but if you don’t want cold and snow you have to take all the Ivies, ND, U of Chicago, all the NESCAC schools, Michigan, Wisconsin and a lot of really good schools off your list.
Fortunately the US has plenty of great colleges to choose from that don’t involve lots of very cold weather and snow: every college in CA including Stanford, Caltech, USC, Claremont Colleges, 8 UCs, and several top CSUs, excellent TX colleges like Rice, UT-Austin, A&M, and SMU, and farther east Tulane, Vanderbilt, Duke, Emory, UNC-CH, UF, etc. , the list is large and gives students many excellent choices without the burden of bad weather. For some students weather is a factor.
My son is worried more about Alabama. He will camp outside in subzero weather, but does not like the heat at all. He gets all excited when the first snow starts falling because he loves to snowmobile. Not that he’d be doing much of that while off at college.
A Basin Ski Resort is the highest in Colorado, bottom of mountain is something like 11,000 or 12,000 feet above sea level! Absolutely the colleges in Colorado are all at 5000 feet above sea level and snow does NOT tend to stick around down here, it sublimes. My kids wore shorts to school, however nighttime temps are very cold down here in the winter. Sun makes it a very pleasant winter. In 30 years of living in 4 different locations, on the Front Range, so 5000 feet, my residential street was NEVER plowed by design. Snow does not stick around past 5 days, unless its a freak huge storm in March, but even those will be melted inside of 2 weeks typically. . Only highways and bigger roads are plowed in the major cities in Colorado. Go up 2000 feet and its like a different world, snow sticks, and plenty of snow, and a white winter.
Go to the resort town of Estes Park and be prepared for May snows that may be more severe, its something like 7500 feet above sea level.
There are not too many towns in Colorado with colleges that are at high altitudes, Gunnison comes to mind. Those are small mountain schools, very few CC readers consider.
Down here, at 5000 feet above sea level, its a brown winter, with snow in the spring, Mostly Feb, March, April and early May snows, that melt in 1-10 days, depending on the season. May snow melts on impact, with black pavement, only sticking to your green lawn, which drinks up the moisture! Go up to 10,000 feet in a few areas of Colorado, like A Basin Ski Resort, and you can have snow in July, in that area. But Long’s Peak/Mount Meeker at 14,000 has NO glaciers and never has in the 30 years I have lived here. Brown and dry in September, our dry fall season, when water is way down.
Weather is fascinating, is all I can say!
My daughter plays lacrosse in Northern Ohio and I frankly think it is character building. We went to see one of their first games in the ‘spring’ and there were huge snow piles on the side of the field and extra balls on cones for when the out of bounds ball got lost in the pile.
My son’s at Michigan. Playing intermural flag football at 10:30 pm on a Sunday when it’s like 30 degrees or colder. They seem to think this is fun! ?
@Knowsstuff 10:30 PM Sunday night? Tell your son to hit the books. What is this? Vacation or something? :lol
Last year at Parents Weekend at UMich (11/3-4), the weather was high 30’s and low 40’s and I was wearing flip flops and shorts. But I felt a chill in the air. 
@sushiritto. Sunday is his day off since he actually works as a ref /umpire like the whole day then plays at night. But on Saturdays after the game he actually goes back to study. It’s his life and schedule that seems to be working well for him. As a freshman it was the only time that had spots and he was invited to play on someone’s team. So he just continued with that. Good thing his classes are later on Monday and Tuesdays…
Oh, that’s just my sarcasm. Just kidding. I know your son is an excellent student. My kid will take Saturday off because of the football games and all the related festivities.
sorry accidental dup
I wasn’t saying there aren’t good schools in warm climates, just that you have to take the Ivies, Chicago, NESCAC off your lists if you are picking by weather. And the weather in some of the schools you listed is not perfect. If does snow at UNC and Duke, which wouldn’t bother me at all, but the heat of Houston is not for me.
So, I guess, no one’s worried about major hurricanes 
I totally get you so don’t concern yourself… When he first told me when he was studying after the games I was like “what’s wrong with you”! Lol.??.. But his schedule is tight due to his club activities and his planning events. He actually has more on his plate this year but it’s all good. Good to keep them off the streets.
Well let’s see: cold and snow in the north, heat and hurricanes in the south, tornadoes in the midwest, earthquakes in CA, and now you’ve narrowed it down to, um, U of Phoenix Online.
They’re pretty much adults at this point, so it’s time to start making choices and experiencing compromise and consequences. Most 17 year olds are ready for this level of complexity.
D21 took Florida colleges off the list long ago. Doesn’t like hurricanes. We live in the midlands of South Carolina, and he says we get quite enough of that here. (I think that means coastal Carolina and New Orleans are off the table, too.) He likes snow, though. We used to live where it snowed.
Every year.
Every year
Every year.
1989 for NorCal. 
Natural disasters are not annual expected weather. But you knew that right?
Ah SoCal, the only thing nice about it is the weather, everything else not so much. Taxes, Cost of living, crowded, serious homeless issues, I could go on but you get the idea, and it will only get worse.
You’ve described pretty much every urban area of the country. But you also get the great weather, beaches and jobs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tenaja-fire-map-rages-through-southern-california-today-2019-09-06/. Most other areas don’t have frequent raging wildfires, often fanned by the Santa Ana winds.