Mount Crested Butte owes its existence to a massive volcanic episode that roiled Colorado 30 million years ago. —Photo by Terri Cook The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado.

If Crested Butte didn’t invent mountain biking, mountain biking would have had to invent Crested Butte. There’s a tableau familiar to anyone who’s driven north along Colorado Highway 135, where the ...

CRESTED BUTTE• This is, literally, the end of the road. Twenty-five miles up an icy highway from Gunnison, surrounded on three sides by some of the most beautiful and rugged mountains in Colorado, ...

CRESTED BUTTE — This end-of-the-road village is winning the Colorado snow count, with a second storm firing up late Sunday and pounding the East River Valley with two inches an hour for most of Monday ...

Ski area operators usually pray to the snow gods for more. But at one point in the middle of the 2016-17 season, Crested Butte Mountain Resort asked for less. The resort had to close temporarily as ...

BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) - Vail Resorts announced on Monday that they will acquire Crested Butte and three other ski areas outside Colorado. Consolidation has been a theme in the skiing industry in ...

CRESTED BUTTE – Colorado's wildflowers are in full bloom, and there's no better place to see the sprawling fields of purple, yellow and red than at Crested Butte's Wildflower Festival. Started back in ...

DjangoFest Colorado celebrates the tradition and spirit of Django Reinhardt, the great French/Belgian gypsy guitarist, and returns to Mt. Crested Butte for the second consecutive year over Labor Day ...

The case and its $21 million verdict may open up new avenues for skiers to sue ski operators, particularly over incidents involving chairlifts, attorney Brian Aleinikoff said.

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CRESTED BUTTE, Colorado “- Crawling under a rural cabin to look at some frozen pipes, plumber Josh Pierce decided he wasn’t getting paid nearly enough. About 20 feet into the two-foot space, with not ...