Thanks to 3 feet of fresh, early-season snow, the Rio Grande Trail in Aspen opened prior to Thanksgiving 2024 — significantly sooner than its typical start. Now, in March, high temperatures and ...

As an amateur runner, I was gobsmacked by the performance of Carbondale’s Forrest Barton earlier this month on July 19 in the Power of Four trail run. The aptly named Forrest ran through the ...

And 1.2 percent favored doing both. Written comments from the survey included enthusiastic pleas, including, “Please finish paving the Rio Grande Trail!!!!!!!!!!” ...

While the Rio Grande Trail still has years to go before it’s a well-established thru-hike, it’s a beautiful project in the making, and I’d be excited to tackle the whole thing.

There are crossings in both locations now. They just involve a hill. I have had to walk my bike down and across to the Rio Grande Trail at the Aspen Airport Business Center, and it is not that bad.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser pledged to keep working with other states to find a solution to sharing water in the Rio Grande, site of a decades-long dispute. The U.S. Supreme Court on ...

Promises that the Rio Grande Reservoir's upgraded dam near Creede would improve recreation and the environment in Colorado haven't materialized, locals say. There is hope for a grant application.