A roughly $1.6 million project on the Grand Mesa aims to make cross-country a little more comfortable for those along the ...

MESA COUNTY • Spencer Christensen is conflicted when he talks about the Grand Mesa. “As a person who likes the Grand Mesa for personal reasons, I want it to be kept secret,” he said.

The trail is located on the southwest edge of Grand Mesa, or 5 miles south of Land’s End Road and Highway 65 on the Mesa ” a point west of Grand Junction and north of Cedaredge and Delta. Formed in ...

In a good winter, visiting the Grand Mesa is like visiting Siberia — and this is a very good winter. My wife, Ann, and I lucked out because Highway 65 onto the mesa was just reopening at about noon ...

The Grand Mesa Summit Challenge Dog Sled Race on the Grand Mesa at Mesa Top Trail. With sled racing in teams of four, six or eight and skijoring reaces for one or two dogs.

Late afternoon thunderstorms dropped enough hail on the Grand Mesa to make it look more like a winter wonderland. The images below from CDOT show the scene at over 10,000 feet late Wednesday.

According to Dobbs, that area of the Grand Mesa gets about 420 inches a year. He believes they will get well over that this year.

However, a disturbance that moved in Thursday morning, brought some winter weather to the Grand Mesa. "We had a very strong system come through today," said Dennis Phillips, National Weather Service.

The three unidentified men went missing Sunday after going into the uninhabited slide area on Grand Mesa to check on local farms’ source of irrigation water near the West Salt Creek, officials said.

This time last year, Mesa County had some of the lowest COVID-19 totals for cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state. Indeed, Grand Junction once seemed like the city the virus forgot.