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The town of Vail incorporated in 1966, four years after the opening of new Vail Ski Resort. The ski area was founded by Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton in 1962, between the towns of Eagle and Vail Pass. The top pass was named after Charles Vail, the road highway engineer that routed U.S. Highway 6 through the valley in the 1940s. Pete Seibert, a New England native, served in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division during World War II, which trained and skied at Camp Hale, just southeast of undevopled Vail. During WW II he was seriously wounded in Italy and was told he would never ski again.
Vail is near the eastern border of Eagle County, on Interstate 70, within White River National Forest. Vail is located at 39°38′9″N, 106°21′47″W. Its average elevation is 8150 feet above sea level. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.5 square miles, with no lakes.
Vail Mountain has a maximum elevation of 12,250' and low of 8,120', a vertical drop of 3450'. It has 5,289 acres skiable, 33 lifts, 193 marked ski trails on three mountain faces: the front side, the back bowls, and Blue Sky Basin. The seven back ski bowls are Sun Down Bowl, Sun Up Bowl, Teacup Bowl, the China Bowl, Siberia Bowl, Inner Mongolia Bowl, and the Outer Mongolia Bowl. Vail was ranked as the top ski resort in SKI Magazine's reader's poll for the season 2006-07.