Jason Blevins

A Wyoming innovator’s Boom Whoosh avalanche-control system debuts at Crested Butte Mountain Resort with a new approach to triggering slides

Proposition 137 could divert sales taxes on goods like tents and backpacks into GOCO, wildfire mitigation and outdoor recreation

There are now three lawsuits in Colorado arguing that resort companies are violating antitrust laws with pricing for passes and lift tickets

Pushing passes falls aside as Breckenridge, Keystone lead strategic shift in resort operator’s marketing plan

256,000 hikers counted on 58 14ers in 2025 is down from 415,000 in 2020. The decline shows traffic is spread away from most-popular peaks.

Spending in 18 Colorado mountain towns dropped to a 4-year low in 2025-26, when snow didn’t fall. But communities are diversifying economies.

Following protests, Gunnison County Sheriff Adam Murdie promised to end cooperation with federal immigration officers but fears retaliation

The 27th annual Living Journeys Summit Hike drew more than 400 to the summit of Mount Crested Butte on “the day of the year we all show up”

Adam Palmer, who died in an avalanche in 2021, helped steer his Eagle County community toward cleaner, more sustainable energy

Two years of slight growth are a warning call that Colorado’s $29.2 billion tourism economy is losing steam.

A White River National Forest plan calls for a lodge, campsites, cabins, employee housing and an equestrian center around Sweetwater Lake

The Glenwood Hot Springs Protection Act would block BLM approval of plan to expand a gravel quarry above the tourist-dependent town

A survey of hikers on Mount Elbert shows hundreds of people pooping on the trail to the summit. Wag bags are helping to limit the stink.

The investigations not uncover illegality by local leaders who resigned from their jobs in the wake of the offer to buy Telluride ski area

The IOC approved freeride skiing and snowboarding in the 2030 Winter Olympics in the Alps but cut the century-old Nordic combined discipline

More than 183 million Americans went outside for recreation in 2025, including 30 million outdoor newcomers since the pandemic

Mountain bikers rallied in opposition to the alternating use proposal that would have limited bikes at Heil Valley Ranch and Hall Ranch parks

Multiple wildfires are preventing access to wide swaths of public lands while drought is drying up river and reservoirs access.

Rafters on the Ruby Horsethief stretch of the Colorado River were evacuated by Mesa County volunteers as the Snyder Fire exploded Saturday

Five firefighters used survival shelters when heavy winds caused the fire to blow up on Saturday. Two crew members made it but were injured.