Summit County News
Renewable Energy by 2035
Breckenridge is striving to be powered entirely by renewable energy by 2035. So how did we get here? A task force was created in March of 2017 by the direction of the Breckenridge Town Council. They instructed staff to form a panel and ...
Hello Epic Discovery
On June 9th, Breckenridge Ski Resort welcomed its first batch of guests to its brand-new, state-of-the-art theme park in the mountains - Epic Discovery! Breckenridge Epic Discovery is modeled after similar projects at Vail Mountain — h...
Breckenridge Ranked #1 for Arts
Breckenridge took the top slot in this year's Arts Vibrancy Index, an annual nationwide survey of artistic communities! Started in 2014, the study by the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University ra...
Donation Aids Community Nonprofits in Summit
Rob Katz, CEO of Vail Resorts and his wife Elana Amsterdam donated $1.6 million to community nonprofits across communities where Vail Resorts operates. A portion of the donation was given to The Summit Foundation, which received $250,000. ...
All Time High Tax Collections
Visitors and locals are spending record amounts in Colorado’s mountain communities. Sales tax collections are again reaching all-time highs in 2016. For the fourth year in a row, sales in the high country smashed tax collection records...
Expanding Hotel Development
Summit County is starting to see more and more hotel conglomerates building high-end resort type hotels; expanding hotel development in the mountains. In the past, hotel developers have been tentative to build in mountain communitie...
$33 Million Granted to Protect Our Forests From Wildfires
The From Forests to Faucets program will receive $33 million in funding toward forest restoration projects aiming to reduce the risk of wildfires over five years. The resources will help treat more than 40,000 acres of forests near watershe...
Summit Foundation Grants More Than One Million
In December of 2016, the Summit Foundation Board of Trustees gave over one million dollars to local nonprofits within Summit County and other nearby communities. By the end of 2016, the Summit Foundation community grant allocations for the ...
