rockefeller number of locations 17 resorts area served central & north america parent vail resorts website www.rockresorts.com la posada de santa fe rockresorts is a hotel brand with roots in the 1950s . laurance rockefeller founder began building a series of resorts in 1956 with the establishment of caneel bay on st. john in the united states virgin islands . early properties included the grand teton lodge company which with the jackson lake lodge and jenny lake lodge actually preceded caneel bay dorado beach hotel and golf club little dix bay and mauna kea beach hotel . at some point in the early to mid 1960s rockefeller and others began referring to his collection of resort properties as rockresorts . additional rockresorts during this time included the woodstock inn in vermont which opened on november 23 1969 and the boulders in carefree arizona . the company was sold to railroad company csx which combined it with its hotel resort the greenbrier . in 1986 csx sold the brand and the original hotel companies were dispersed though the greenbrier remained . in 1999 the rockresorts brand was revived by olympus hospitality and later acquired by vail resorts in 2001 . today the brand is headquartered in broomfield colorado . 1 rockresort properties include 5 destinations in the rocky mountains of colorado the pines lodge and the osprey at beaver creek in beaver creek colorado ; the lodge at vail and the arrabelle at vail square in vail colorado and one ski hill place in breckenridge colorado . as of february 2011 rockresorts has announced the acquisition of one additional resort property half moon in jamaica this property will be managed by the company s property management group and rebranded under the rockresorts brand . external links edit rockresorts official website rockresorts corporate history properties rockresorts newsroom vail resorts corporate website notes edit vail resorts corporate website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rockresorts & oldid 647220832 categories hotel chainsre established companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 09 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view