Many early pioneers moved to the area under President Abraham Lincoln's Homestead Act (1862), farming hay and raising cattle to feed local miners.

However, when Denver backed out from holding the Olympic Winter Games in November 1972, Seibert's plans of building the resort collapsed.

[6] In 1991, a new pod of advanced terrain was opened on Grouse Mountain in the Talons area, with Garaventa-CTEC constructing a high-speed quad to service the new trails.

The former Strawberry Park triple was relocated and renamed Elkhorn, providing mountain access for real estate owners.

In 1993, Beaver Creek purchased the small, adjacent Arrowhead Mountain, formerly an independent resort catering to the beginner and lower intermediate skier with its own Doppelmayr-constructed high speed quad.

In 2014, massive changes occurred as Doppelmayr replaced the aging Centennial Express lift with a chondola, combining a high speed six pack with ten passenger gondola cabins.

In 2017, the last of Beaver Creek's original opening day lifts, the Drink of Water double chairlift, was removed and replaced with a high speed quad.

For the last several years, Beaver Creek has hosted the Audi "Birds of Prey" World Cup downhill ski races early in the season.

Recently, Beaver Creek has worked to re-shape all of the bunkers on the course, aligning them more closely with their original design, and in the process installing a new drainage system and new sand for better playability.