[2] Founded 63 years ago in 1962, Eldora has proven popular partly due to skiers not having to use the extremely busy Interstate 70 to reach the resort.

To stay competitive with many of the other front-range ski areas (all of which are now defunct, with the exception of Squaw Pass, since renamed Echo Mountain Park), a lodge was erected and the road was regraded.

In 1973, two more double chairlifts were installed: Cannonball, which paralleled the T-bar on the main mountain, and Corona, which opened a new area to the north.

Beginning in 1979, the resort started losing money, in part because the construction of the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate 70 made it more convenient to reach the larger ski areas west of the Continental Divide.

Two fixed-grip quad chairs were installed in 1998: one which replaced the original Corona lift, and another one just east of it, Indian Peaks, which opened 150 new acres of terrain.

[7] In 2016, it was announced that Powdr Corporation had acquired Eldora Mountain Resort and rebranded their terrain park as a Woodward facility.

[14] With increasing climate change impacts, in December 2023, Eldora started looking into water sources for expanded snowmaking capabilities.

[16][17][18] A few months later, in mid-November, the neighboring small town of Nederland announced its interest in purchasing the resort for an estimated $100-200M.