Lindsey Vonn lives in Park City, Utah, where she spent the spring of 2026 recovering from her Olympic crash, and she also spends part of her time in Los Angeles, according to an ESPN interview published April 7, 2026. She no longer has a home in Vail: she sold her East Vail house in the summer of 2020 and told the community so in a full-page ad in the Vail Daily.
Vail is still her hometown and the place she trained as a teenager, and it came back into her story in 2026, when her last surgery after the Cortina crash was done in Vail. A street or neighborhood for a current Vail residence is not something published sources support.
Did Lindsey Vonn live in Vail?
Yes, for most of her racing career. Her family moved from Minnesota to Vail when she was 12 so she could train with Ski Club Vail, and in 2014 she bought a newly built house in East Vail, her first home. She sold it for $4.8 million in July 2020, after retiring.
| When | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Age 12 | Her family moves from Minnesota to Vail so she can train with Ski Club Vail, now Ski & Snowboard Club Vail. | Vail Daily, July 31, 2020 |
| 2014 | She buys a newly built house in East Vail, the first home she ever purchased. | The Colorado Sun, Oct. 24, 2019 |
| February 2019 | She announces her retirement from ski racing. | The Colorado Sun |
| August to fall 2019 | The house goes on the market that August and is publicly tied to Vonn that fall, at $6 million. The listing agent says she plans to spend less time in Vail. | The Colorado Sun |
| February 2020 | The asking price drops to $5.2 million. | Vail Daily |
| July 2020 | The house sells for $4.8 million. Vonn runs a thank-you ad in the Vail Daily. | Vail Daily |
| March 2026 | Reports describe her home in Park City, Utah, which she began building soon after retiring, and quote a 2020 interview about leaving Vail. | Yahoo Lifestyle, March 2, 2026 |
None of the sources above, or the 2024 to 2026 reporting on her comeback, says she bought another Vail house.
What happened in Lindsey Vonn's comeback and the 2026 crashes?
Vonn returned to World Cup racing in December 2024, almost six years after retiring, reached a podium in March 2025 and won two downhills in the 2025-26 season. Then she tore her left ACL at Crans-Montana on January 30, 2026, and broke her left tibia and right ankle in the Olympic downhill at Cortina on February 8.
Vonn retired in 2019 after years of knee injuries, and a partial knee replacement in 2024 made a return possible, NPR reported. She announced her comeback on November 14, 2024 and, on December 21, 2024, finished 14th in a super-G in St. Moritz, her first World Cup race in almost six years. On March 23, 2025 she was second in the super-G at the World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Idaho, which made her the oldest woman to reach a World Cup podium.
The 2025-26 season went further. She won a downhill in St. Moritz in December 2025, becoming the oldest Alpine skier to win a World Cup race, and won again in Zauchensee, Austria, in January 2026 for her 84th World Cup victory, according to NBC Olympics. She came into the Olympics leading the World Cup downhill standings.
Then came two crashes nine days apart. On January 30, 2026 she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee in a downhill at Crans-Montana, Switzerland, and chose to race the Olympics anyway. On February 8, 2026, in the Olympic downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo, she hooked a gate 13 seconds into her run and was taken off the course by helicopter. She broke her left leg, a complex fracture of the tibia, and her right ankle, and needed several surgeries; the last of them was in Vail.
As of September 2026 she has not announced a retirement. In an AP interview on April 30, 2026 she said she was not emotionally ready to decide, that she still needed surgery to repair the ACL and remove hardware, and that any return to racing was at least a year and a half away. USA Today reported on September 25, 2026 that the surgery is planned for November, to remove the plates and hardware from her left leg and fix the torn ACL, and that she will decide on her racing future only after that recovery.
| Date | Comeback milestone | Source |
|---|---|---|
| November 14, 2024 | Announces her return to racing. | NPR |
| December 21, 2024 | 14th in the St. Moritz super-G, her first World Cup race back. | NBC Sports |
| March 23, 2025 | 2nd in the super-G at the Sun Valley World Cup finals. | CNN (AP) |
| December 2025 | Wins the St. Moritz downhill. | NBC Olympics |
| January 2026 | Wins the Zauchensee downhill, her 84th World Cup victory. | NBC Olympics |
| January 30, 2026 | Tears her left ACL in a crash at Crans-Montana. | CNN |
| February 8, 2026 | Crashes in the Olympic downhill at Cortina; breaks her left tibia and right ankle. | NPR |
| April 30, 2026 | Says she is not ready to decide on retirement. | CPR (AP) |
| September 25, 2026 | Reported to be planning surgery in November to remove hardware and repair her ACL, still undecided about racing. | USA Today |
Why did Lindsey Vonn leave Vail?
She needed a change after retiring. In a 2020 interview with Graham Bensinger, as later reported by Yahoo Lifestyle and AOL, she said she had lived in Vail most of her childhood and that it reminded her of hospital visits after injuries. Her farewell ad still called Vail her hometown and home to some of her family.
In the Vail Daily ad she said she was sad to have sold her Vail home that month, thanked the community, and credited Ski Club Vail with the confidence and love of speed that carried her to the Olympic downhill title and, at the time, 82 World Cup wins. She closed by saying Vail would no longer be her full-time residence but remains home for some of her family and will always be her hometown, which still answers the question best.
AOL's May 2026 article adds that she had moved out of California to Utah. In her April 2026 ESPN interview she described being "hunkered down in Utah" for her rehab and said she lives in Los Angeles part time.
Where was Lindsey Vonn's house in Vail?
In East Vail, on Black Gore Creek. The Colorado Sun described it as a five-bedroom, seven-bathroom house bought new in 2014, and the Vail Daily put it at about 7,000 square feet. It has had a new owner since 2020 and is private property with nothing to see from the road, so its address is left out.
The Colorado Sun's listing-agent tour mentioned a gym above the garage and a dog door for her hounds.
Where can you see Lindsey Vonn's connection to Vail today?
On the mountain and at the club that trained her. Vail's International run was renamed Lindsey's in 2015 after her 63rd World Cup win, she trained on Golden Peak, Vail's race-training base, and Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, which she credits with her start, still runs youth programs on Vail Valley Drive.
- Lindsey's, the run. After Vonn passed her 63rd World Cup win in January 2015, Vail Mountain's International run was renamed Lindsey's, as the Vail Daily and the Denver Gazette both report. In her farewell ad she called the honor the greatest gift she has ever received.
- Golden Peak. Ski Racing's report on her farewell carries a photo of her training on Vail's Golden Peak in November 2010. The guide to Golden Peak explains what the base area offers today.
- Ski & Snowboard Club Vail. The club Vonn credits still runs youth ski and snowboard programs in Vail; its own site, skiclubvail.org, lists its programs and its address on Vail Valley Drive.
Vonn is not the only well-known name tied to the valley. The guide to celebrities connected to Vail separates the residents who can be documented from the names that only circulate as rumor, and what it is like living in Vail covers the everyday side of the town she grew up in.
