You’ve planned a fantastic ski trip! My in-laws skied later in life and it was so special sharing the hill with them.
They lived in the mountains and my FIL worked in the rental shop at one of the resorts as his retirement job. He loved meeting new people and the job included a free ski pass.
After a distinguished career as a naval officer, he liked to joke he finally realized his dream of being a ski bum. He’s been gone five years this month.
@mountainsoul H and I love skiing in Colorado. Last February we skied Canada (Revelstoke and Banff), Big Sky and Jackson Hole so we didn’t make it to Colorado. We are a doing our snow dances here for a good season in the west!
Revelstoke is probably my favorite mountain to date. Our son heli-skied there for his HS graduation while we skied at the resort.
He was also fortunate to be able to attend a speed camp at Sunshine Village. He was 15. We sent him up there alone with a burrito of skis. They shut down half the mountain while he and 14 Canadian athletes ran Super G with 5 former Olympians. Pretty cool experience.
I don’t ski, but my kids who grew up in New England do. On spring breaks they always preferred skiing out West, rather than going to a warmer climate. Their favorite place was Deer Valley in Utah. I can’t speak to the skiing, but the rooms/amenities were quite nice.
AAAGHH !! Like usNews rankings for the slopes!
And like USNWR these rankings are definitive so everyone should just skip Colorado and go to Utah or Idaho instead. 
We have skied at 18 of the 30 listed and we will add 2 more this coming season.
I’m an intermediate skier - I’ve been skiing since college (where I learned). In my younger days (late 20s/early 30s) I was in a ski house up at Mount Snow. Both of my kiddos are good skiers - S24 has been racing since the 4th grade (not a great racer but it has made him into an excellent, strong skier). Sadly, between the subpar weather/snow conditions I haven’t made it out much in recent years. For day trips (we’re in MA) I like Sunapee, Waterville Valley or Gunstock - we’ve also done weekend trips to Stowe (soooo expensive), Okemo and the like. Hope to get out more this year but I’m picky about conditions - not going to drop $100 to be skating on ice.
I’ve skiied 16 of the 30 listed.
For the East Coasters:
Skiied 9 of those
Me too. Mad River rocks. I just wish they wouldn’t go telling everyone about it!
I’ve skied 12 of those . . .
I haven’t skiied in the East in 35 years.
Which 2 will you be adding?
I’ve skied about 10 of those western ski centers. Many of them are daytrips (albeit some quite long daytrips) for us. I really should add Arapaho Basin someday, since it’s only about 2 hours away. It’s not on the EPIC pass (I have 3 days this year), so probably not this year.
In recent years we’ve skied Loveland a lot since they have the most flexible 4pack deal, 4 paper tickets that can be used any day and can be shared across multiple people. It’s the ski center you can see at Eisenhower tunnel on I70 an the continental divide. It’s more of a local skier place, with no condos and just one lodge. My kids like the diamond and double diamonds. I like blue cruisers and after a few runs split up, meet at lunch. (At other places we have bagels in our pockets for lunch, but Loveland is one place where the cafeteria prices are not bad.)
I’ve skied 15 of the Western mountains. 
We are adding Breckenridge and Vail this year which will get us to 20 since we bought a 2 day Epic pass to go with the Ikon pass this year.
H and I carry salami, cheese, crackers and fruit to eat while on the slopes as well as lots of water.
I know a bit about Vail and a lot about Breck (towns and ski centers of same name) - reach out if you have any questions.
Our family ski lunch tradition is bagel sandwiches, since they crush less when you fall. I do miss having the kids along, but I’ve gotten to appreciate the fact that my pockets are now all my own. No stashing extra food, socks, dry mittens etc for the kiddos with small jackets/pockets. (Growing up in NY, you could stash a backpack at the lodge. In CO, we are usually all over the mountain, sometimes eating at a lodge at top of the lifts where less crowded.)
FWIW, if you have your credit card “attached” on line to your epic pass, you get a 20% discount on food bought at the cafeterias, etc so f you pay with your badge. I think, IIRC , the cashiers don’t bring it up b/c it’s harder to tip them unless you give cash to the cashier