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Old Oct 22, 2025 | 8:12 pm
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Originally Posted by jason8612
From personal experience, especially renting from DEN and driving up/down the mtns (I-70 to Frisco, Vail and onwards), none of the rental car companies (and I've basically used all of them in DEN) that I've rented through over the past 2+ decades have proper snow/winter tires, and even 4WD SUVs that I've rented couldn't cope in a snowstorm (on all season tires) up in the mtns.
It seems Turo would let you find a vehicle with proper snow tires.

https://help.turo.com/en_us/winter-s...osts-rknGBV3dT

I have never used them, but I would probably consider them for a rental in the mountains.
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