The Olympic champion broke a bone in his left wrist while training last month but insists he is back on track to give his all this weekend.
That incident came after a disappointing 10th-place finish in the first race of the season at Solden in Austria towards the end of October.
However, Beaver Creek invariably brings the best out of the 30-year-old American, with Ligety having won four of the last five FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup GS races at this venue.
"I really love this hill," Ligety told the Denver Post. "It's an awesome place for me to race and it's a hill I've had a lot of success on. It's definitely more comfortable to race on than most of them."
With the World Championships also being held here in a couple of months, Ligety is keen to return to top form before he bids for a hat-trick of victories in that contest.
After having the misfortune to hit a rock in the season opener, he accepts such bad luck can strike at anytime, but has more confidence in facing ideal conditions on Sunday.
"It's going to be great having it here," Ligety added. "It's really cool what they've done with the stadium and they always do an awesome job prepping the hill.
"You'd be surprised, the vast majority of our World Cup races are prepared pretty badly. Here, they do an awesome job. Everybody loves coming here because of that."
However, with doubts remaining over whether Ligety will be up to full speed so soon after his injury, Marcel Hirscher will be regarded by many as favourite to follow up his Solden success on Sunday.
The Austrian also picked up a solid second in the standard slalom event at Levi in Finland last month and can boast a win at this venue three years ago.
Runner-up in the overall giant slalom standings last season, the 25-year-old will be hoping to steal an early march on Ligety as he bids to regain the top spot he claimed in 2012.