Posts Tagged ‘Mountain Town’
Colorado Skiing is Open for the season
Skiing is back once again with two mountains open in Colorado. Arapahoe Basin Ski Area and Loveland Ski Area have always raced to see who will be the first Ski Area to open in the Rockies. This year The Basin came out on top once again.&nbs...Summit County Life Expectancy – Higher than the Rest
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Summit County life expectancy is the highest in the nation at 86.83 years! Neighboring Pitkin and Eagle County, came in at number two and ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Stowe Is Now Epic
Vail Resorts has made another big purchase. Last week Vail Resorts finalized the acquisition of Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont for $50 million. Vail Resorts owns ski areas in Colorado, California, Utah, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, ...
