Fourth of July week: ‘It’s like Christmas’

By scott miller

EAGLE COUNTY — We all talk about the Christmas through New Year’s holiday period, Presidents Day weekend, spring break and Easter — all high points on the ski season calendar — as peak times in the Vail Valley. But summer has one of those “full-up” holidays, and it’s the Fourth of July. Looking ahead to about July 3, the date of Avon’s Salute to the USA party, the valley will be booked solid, or nearly so. And really, is Vail Village ever more full than it is for the Fourth of July parade? There’s little doubt that the Fourth of …

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