Just a few miles northwest of Crested Butte, along the road to Kebler Pass, the tiny hamlet of Irwin consists of an eponymous lake and absolutely perfect slopes for back-country skiing.
I fasten my boots, click them into my skis, and pull tight my helmet before maneuvering towards near-empty queues. My sunglasses suddenly dip below th...
The national weather service may have canceled a winter storm warning for parts of northern Colorado, but there's still plenty coming down in the Colo...
Even in the midst of the recession, environmental practices at ski resorts have been improving. That's according to a report from the Ski Area Citizen...
You've heard of the La Brea Tar Pits, the place in Los Angeles where hundreds of fossils have been found, right? Well, now we've got something in Colorado just like it, except for all the tar.
This unique ski-in ski-out home at Mt. Crested Butte was designed by Robert Harvey Oshatz to accommodate two brothers who had happened into a truckloa...
Rangers are cracking down on illegal and inappropriate uses of the Gunnison National Forest, including taking down "smoke shacks" near Crested Butte t...
CRESTED BUTTE - Sweat beading on his brow, Tim Mueller stops climbing the snowy road up Snodgrass Mountain and takes a breather. The clouds break mome...
Thanksgiving week is prime time for early season skiing. Crested Butte, Steamboat, Monarch and Beaver Creek opened Wednesday. Telluride and Aspen/Sno...
Outside Magazine has released its annual list of North America's 16 Best Ski Resorts with five Colorado resorts making the list.
Silverton placed at...
Mt. Crested Butte, CO - The U.S. Forest Service has notified Crested Butte Mountain Resort (CBMR) by letter that it is denying the Colorado ski resort...
The Forest Service in recent decades has given Colorado's ski resorts carte blanche to expand, as places like Vail and Breckenridge became sprawling w...
Ski season is upon us. Loveland Ski Area will win the race to be the first resort to open in Colorado this season when it starts its lifts on October...
With the changing of the seasons, it's time again to flock to the mountains for a glimpse of Colorado's famed fall foliage.
But the vibrant hues of r...