Downtown Vail Colorado at dusk
Vail, Colorado.
  • Vail is among the most expensive Colorado housing markets, with a median home price over $1 million.
  • Resort towns like Jackson, Wyoming, and Park City, Utah, also face unaffordable housing.
  • Four people shared how Vail's expensive housing has affected their daily lives.

Allison Weibel, 31, moved back to Vail, Colorado, in 2017 after spending a year studying in Argentina on a Fulbright scholarship. 

At the time, Weibel was working two part-time jobs, one as a high-school teacher and another as a ski instructor with Vail Resorts, which is among the largest ski-resort-management companies in the Western US. The resort offered Weibel employee housing, so she paid a bargain of $600 a month to share a bedroom in a four-bedroom apartment with five other employees.