Ski Areas

Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet earlier this week introduced the Senate version of U.S. Rep. John Salazar’s San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act, which would protect more than 60,000 acres of public lands in southwestern Colorado as either wilderness or a special management area.

It was a quiet May Day in the mountains of Colorado, and much calmer on the immigration-rights demonstration front across much of the state and nation than the past two years. But as Coloradans gather to celebrate Cinco de Mayo today, there is a growing sense of unease over intensified enforcement efforts and stalled federal [...]

Ludwig Kurz, former Vail mayor and current director of community relations for nearby Beaver Creek resort, would like to see people in ski boots and goggles wandering the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver.

The battle lines drawn over a proposed toll on Interstate 70 into Colorado’s high country are much more than mere Western-Slope-versus-Front-Range wrangling. The debate is also being framed along the lines of mass transit proponents versus highway expansionists.

Even as winter weather rolled back into Colorado Thursday and squelched three wildfires that Tuesday scorched thousands of acres, killed three firefighters and destroyed scores of buildings, fire officials in the mountains warned against complacency – especially in light of the state’s massive mountain pine beetle epidemic.

Vail Resorts Inc.’s announcement that it would offset 100 percent of its energy use with wind power, making it the largest corporate purchaser of wind power in the nation, comes just months after receiving a “D” for its environmental practices in the Ski Area Citizens Coalition’s 2005-2006 environmental scorecard.

Among the reasons Vail received the low [...]