Tag: Aspen
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8 Colorado spots rank among ‘top places for fall colors’ around U.S.
Vacation rental company ‘HomeToGo’ has published their annual report of the best places to find fall colors around the United States, and unsurprisingly multiple Colorado spots made the cut to be included on their list of 75 cities and towns. In case you haven’t heard, fall colors are already starting to pop up around the…
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Colorado’s 14er base camps: Where to climb and spoil yourself afterward
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Snow has melted from Colorado’s high country. Consider it nature’s invitation to climb. The state’s tallest summits await. So many to do. So little time. The most avid climber needs a base camp, a place…
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Photo gallery: Admiring Colorado’s wildflowers in places famous and foreign
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Where the masses continued toward one of Colorado’s most iconic scenes, the Maroon Bells, Christian Murdock veered off for an unfamiliar road. There, near Aspen, The Gazette’s photo editor drove up Castle Creek. “I’d probably driven by that turnoff a million times,” Murdock said, reflecting…
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‘It’s just astounding:’ 4,200-plus acres conserved in Colorado’s mountains
Land managers in Colorado’s central mountains are celebrating what they’re calling an unprecedented open space acquisition. Eagle and Pitkin counties recently finalized their acquisition of Three Meadows Ranch — 4,251 acres sprawling to the west of Cottonwood Pass over the Roaring Fork Valley. It’s Eagle County’s largest such open space purchase: $12.5 million toward the total…
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Lifts, price drops, hang-outs and more new to Colorado ski country
Last year around this time, we were talking about terrain debuting at Aspen Mountain and Steamboat; about a chairlift reaching Keystone’s Bergman Bowl; about the latest in an ongoing series of lift and base upgrades at Breckenridge. There’s always something to talk about at the start of ski season. As more resorts open this month,…
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Metro moves: Snooze A.M.’s original restaurant reopens this week after $2.5M remodel
Welcome to the Denver Gazette’s Metro Moves. You’ll get the latest metro Denver openings, closings, hiring and promotion news here. To submit your company’s news, drop an email to bernadette.berdychowski@denvergazette.com. After a $2.5 million renovation, Denver’s brunch restaurant Snooze A.M. announced it will reopen its first location Wednesday. The project expanded the restaurant that opened in…
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Capturing lesser-viewed beauty en route to Colorado’s Conundrum Hot Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Almost 20 years ago, back in what she calls her “nomad, ski bum, vagabond, climbing days,” Katy Nelson heard someone speak of a magical place in Colorado’s Rockies. “I remember someone telling me there’s this hot spring called Conundrum way up in the mountains,” she…
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A look at 9 Colorado passes over the Continental Divide — and what to see on the drives
Call it the great separator, or the thing that unifies us as Coloradans. That’s the Continental Divide, or the Great Divide, so named for the mighty formation that separates our North American watersheds between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. In Colorado, we know it as the rugged wall between the Front Range and the Western…
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Ski lift said to be longest-operating in Colorado set to be replaced
The 2024-25 ski season is set to be the last hurrah for the chairlift known as the longest-operating in Colorado. That’s how Sunlight Mountain Resort has known the Segundo lift, tracing its origins to 1954 in Aspen before its move to the small Glenwood Springs ski area in 1973. Sunlight recently announced plans to replace…
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Construction could soon start on final piece of long-dreamed bike trail in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Construction could start this summer on the final piece of a long-dreamed bike trail in Colorado. A stretch mapped at 7 1/2 miles is all that remains of the Eagle Valley Trail — the 63-mile vision to take cyclists off Interstate 70 from the top of…