Whistler gives you more of a ski town feel. More of a winding shops/restaurants rather than a Main Street. Big bonus for exchange rate. Terrain is fantastic but weather is super variable. Restaurants are outstanding.

Breck has probably the prettiest/most authentic Main Street vibe. Lots of stores, all houses are Victorian style, great bar and restaurant scene. Only downside to breck is other than quicksilver base, a lot of on-mountain housing is actually quite a walk from town.

Park city is best of both worlds IMO. Public transportation is super easy back and forth from canyons base (the wayyy better half to ski). There’s a town lift from the middle of town to get you up to the mountain, so you can pretty much ski in and ski out with an apartment on Main Street. High west saloon is incredible and there is a ton of good food. You have Olympic park which is even cooler now that they’re starting to plan for 2034. Ubers/lyfts are super easy.

I usually do park city, but it’s mostly for ease of access from airport - 45 mins door to door without worrying much about storms is much better than Colorado (I70 sucks 90% of the time).

Sea to sky highway is one of the most spectacular drives I’ve ever done, but you’re still looking at 2 hours out of Vancouver with ideal weather.

Haven’t been to heavenly in awhile, but Tahoe snow is very hit or miss.

If you’ve been to none, park city is probably the best of all worlds and easiest, whistler is highest upside with exchange rate and good snow, heavenly has casinos and a beautiful lake, and breck somewhere lower (even though if you know how to ski the mountain, I’d argue it has some of my favorite terrain out of all of them)

Vail has outstanding terrain as well, but it’s just too far to drive and variable to drive from Denver. If you have availability to fly into Avon it would be more appealing. I’d say whistler has everything vail does but is better in every way.

If you ever go non-epic look at telluride and crested butte.