{"id":40,"date":"2008-07-20T16:58:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T23:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luckymountainhome.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:21:42","slug":"childcare-summit-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luckymountainhome.com\/blog\/childcare-summit-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Childcare Tough To Come By In Summit County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/77.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Childcare Summit County \" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/77.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re moving to <a href=\"\/neighborhood.asp\">Summit County<\/a> full time and have kids who need <a href=\"\/local_schools_and_child_care_centers.asp\">childcare<\/a>, beware: Childcare is hard to come by up here.<\/p>\n<p>One friend of mine who lives in Frisco had to quit her well-paying job when she couldn&#8217;t find space to enroll her infant in daycare last year. About 120 Summit County kids are on a waiting list for daycare.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some daycare centers that were open a year or more ago are closed. Kinderhut, at the base of <a href=\"\/news2.asp\">Breckenridge Peak 8<\/a> in Breckenridge, closed April, 2008, after 17 years of business. It accommodated drop-in daycare. It has been replaced by <a href=\"\/shopping.asp\">retail stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the town of Breckenridge Colorado is stepping up and building a new childcare center, called the Timberline Learning Center, scheduled to open Aug. 1, 2008. It should be able to take care of 68 kids. The bad news is that during the needs assessment the town did, it discovered two facilities, not just one, would be necessary to meet the community&#8217;s needs. For more information on Timberline, e-mail: info@timberlinelearningcenter.com.<\/p>\n<p>Another daycare center that used to help local parents that has remained closed for more than a year is the Pumpkin Patch at <a href=\"\/copper.asp\">Copper Mountain<\/a>. In April 2007, it closed, after allegations that employees put unlit cigarettes in infants mouths and took pictures. Criminal charges were not filed, but the center hasn&#8217;t reopened since its licensure suspension. Copper Mountain is looking for other childcare providers to partner with and is holding the space vacant for the day another facility opens. The Belly Button Bakery remains operational for short-term daycare for tourists during the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re moving to Summit County full time and have kids who need childcare, beware: Childcare is hard to come by up here. One friend of mine who lives in Frisco had to quit her well-paying job when she couldn&#8217;t find space to enroll her infant in daycare last year. About 120 Summit County kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4,60,63,62,10,61,8],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summit-county-life","tag-breckenridge","tag-childcare-center","tag-copper-mountain","tag-daycare","tag-frisco","tag-retail-stores","tag-summit-county"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1-RC1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Childcare Tough To Come By In Summit County - Breckenridge Summit County Real Estate Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.luckymountainhome.com\/blog\/childcare-summit-county\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Childcare Tough To Come By In Summit County - Breckenridge Summit County Real Estate Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you&#8217;re moving to Summit County full time and have kids who need childcare, beware: Childcare is hard to come by up here. 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