Heavenly, Northstar And Kirkwood Employees Volunteer For 10th Annual Epicpromise Week

To celebrate Vail Resort’s 10th year of EpicPromise Week, more than 300 employees combined volunteered hundreds of hours with local community programs focused on youth, education and the environment. This year, EpicPromise volunteers from Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar California Resort and Kirkwood Mountain Resort contributed to four different projects around Lake Tahoe.

• Over 300 Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood employees combined volunteered with community programs focused on youth, education and the environment as part of EpicPromise Week.

• EpicPromise Week is in its 10th year and is one way Vail Resorts supports the health of local mountain communities, like those around Lake Tahoe.

Heavenly Mountain Resort employees volunteered at two locations: the University of Nevada’s Cooperative Extension facility, which hosts the Nevada 4-H Camp, and Sierra House Elementary School, which educates and connects kids to nature. Volunteers built fences, landscaped flower beds, created walking paths, removed green waste and junk, painted and generally improved the appearance of these important community facilities.

Northstar California Resort partnered with Truckee Trails and the U.S. Forest Service to help restore the historic Old 40 China Wall site on Donner Summit.  The two day project consisted of removing graffiti from the exterior of the train tunnels, rock wall construction to protect cultural petroglyphs, and trail and stair construction to access the train tunnels. 

Kirkwood Mountain Resort partnered with Two Sentinels Girls Scout Camp at Kirkwood Lake to do critical trail work and to paint cabins. This High Sierra camp has been providing girls with outdoor, backpacking, and leadership skills since 1936.

EpicPromise is how Vail Resorts embodies its foundational value – Do Good. By supporting the health of local communities through local grants and employee volunteering, the wellbeing and development of employees through the EpicPromise Foundation, and the resilience of the environment and global climate through Commitment to Zero, EpicPromise helps create a more promising future for generations to come.