Shuttles run from vacation rentals to other locations across Vail Valley, including ski areas, so you don’t necessarily need your own car to get wherever you want to go. Vail vacation rentals come in ...

so I threw on a jacket and went out on the deck of Jay’s Cabin, three miles northwest of Vail Pass at 11,223 feet. The moon had set, so the stars stood out in the deep black of the sky above.