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 ...

Filmmaker Conor Hagen was born in Crested Butte, Colorado, but grew up in Taos, New Mexico. With ties to the Crested Butte (often referred to as CB) community, Hagen considered the town and ski area ...

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Once during a visit to Crested Butte, we had pen and notebook in hand, ready to relay in this newspaper whatever locals had to say about their town. “It’s not even a postcard. It’s surreal,” one said.

When I first visited Crested Butte to mountain bike, it was a bit of a rude awakening. I wasn’t prepared for the endless climbing, steep grades, and high-altitude suffering. Even after a few more ...

Crested Butte is the wildflower capital of Colorado. Every summer, nature puts on a show that’s hard to beat anywhere else in Colorado and really in the rest of the country. Stretching from near the ...

Several tumbling waterfalls are visible from the Oh Be Joyful Trail close to Crested Butte. (Libby Kinder) Crested Butte might be my new favorite Colorado mountain town. In September my husband and I ...

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.

Temperatures are reaching the mid-50's in the mountains in March.