Summer comes late to Colorado’s high country, but as the snow finally recedes from the peaks of the West Elk Mountains, the wildflowers grow bolder, get taller and paint the slopes with a veritable ...

NOT SO LONG AGO, FOLKS IN CRESTED Butte, Colo., so loved to brag on their hometown that the town council once spent $3,000 to blazon the name on a hot-air balloon for meets down in Albuquerque. But ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Crested Butte Mountain Resort might be the birthplace of inbounds extreme skiing but there are plenty more incredible ways to enjoy winter’s wonder in the ...

A few decades after the last coal mine closed in the 1950s, Crested Butte faced a choice. A huge deposit of molybdenum — a precious metal — was discovered just outside the central Colorado town. “It ...

There’s a reason Crested Butte consistently tops bike bucket lists. Set among the Elk Mountains—some of Colorado’s most iconic and picturesque—the town is surrounded by endless dirt and paved roads ...

Over the past half-dozen years, Crested Butte has evolved from a relatively isolated mountain town to a magnet for the monied. On a crisp early October morning in downtown Crested Butte, the aspens ...