5 Scenic Cabins to Cozy Up in This Winter

A-Frame Club, Winter Park, Colorado

Born in 2023, inspired by 1970s ski culture: the A-Frame Club is a hip, uber-Instagrammable throwback to skiing’s heyday, less than a third of a mile from Winter Park Resort. Dotted with 31 A-frame cabins (from $199 per night) doused in mid-century flair, the two-acre compound looks like the cover shot of a modern home magazine and a time portal to skiing’s classic beginnings.

Inside each of the birchwood structures (which sleep four) is a kitchenette, Malm fireplace, onsen-style soaking tub, desk and vaulted ceilings with tall windows that bring the Rocky Mountains indoors. On your private patio, you can hear the trickling soundtrack of the Fraser River. The highlight of this retreat might just be The Saloon, a nostalgic apres-ski watering hole. The on-site bar and restaurant serves microbrews and craft cocktails (try the Smokey the Pear) alongside a hearty menu of mountainside fare.

Winter Park is a playground for the outdoor-inclined. Sixty-seven miles from Denver, this nook of Colorado High Country (elevation: 9,000 feet) offers snowshoe and ski bike tours, ice skating, tubing and some 3,000 acres of skiable terrain. Want a lay of the land? Grab your skis and join the free daily orientation at the top of the gondola for some local secrets and mountain history. Extend the range of your winter wonderland by visiting Rocky Mountain National Park (about 40 miles away), where bald eagles, elk and the camouflaged snowshoe hare are wildlife treats. If you need a break from the cold, head to Cozens Ranch Museum (4 miles away), Fraser Valley’s first homestead, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Fireside Resort, Wilson, Wyoming

Fireside Resort’s 25 luxe-rustic cabins in snow-packed Jackson Hole glisten at the base of the Teton Range, one of the most enchanting alpine backdrops in the world. But it’s the upscale mountain design of its pint-size cabins, clad with modern fixings, that sets this resort on the edge of Grand Teton National Park (6 miles away) apart.

Developed by prefab home builder Wheelhaus, Fireside’s wooded 8-acre property delivers a sumptuous homage to the area’s homesteading history. Guests have two lodging options: the Wedge Cabin (which rents from $200 per night and sleeps up to four) and the Caboose Cabin (which rents from $300 per night and sleeps six). Both come with a kitchen, private deck, flat-screen TV, fireplace and outdoor fire pit and access to the resort’s community hot tub.

You’re a 10-minute drive from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Teton Village, where some of the country’s most epic powder blankets its two terrain parks and 131 trails every season. After shredding the slopes, pop in the Mangy Moose, a Teton Village landmark since 1967, for a pint of beer, a bison burger and live music.

Snow King Mountain – 15 minutes in the opposite direction – offers an additional 500 skiable acres in the walkable Old West town of Jackson, Wyoming, awash with restaurants, art galleries and boutique shops. For indoor entertainment, the National Museum of Wildlife Art showcases the work of more than 550 artists, from Andy Warhol to Georgia O’Keeffe. Twenty minutes south of Jackson, six thermal soaking pools await travelers at Astoria Hot Springs, a self-care oasis overlooking the Snake River.