Tag: hiking

Crested Butte Wildflower Guide

Written on June 29, 2020. Posted in Blog, Home Page Articles, Summer, Visit.

Crested Butte is often called the “Wildflower Capital of Colorado.” A rainbow of colors burst forth every summer in the form of wildflowers. You’ll find a wide diversity of species...

Crested Butte and Gunnison Summer Guide

Written on June 26, 2020. Posted in Blog, Home Page Articles, Summer, Visit.

Summer 2024 is here in Gunnison and Crested Butte! We love the long warm days for Colorado summer activities that include hitting the trails. Crested Butte and Gunnison have 1200+ miles of trails, 750...

Four Leaf Peeping Hot Spots Near Gunnison

Written on September 30, 2019. Posted in Blog, Fall, Visit.

Fall Colors and Foliage: Every September Crested Butte + Gunnison welcomes fall with open arms. Cold nights, warm days, and trees blazing with color are all signs that autumn is here. If fall is bringing...

Wildflowers of the Gunnison Valley

Written on July 25, 2019. Posted in Blog, Summer, Visit.

Colorado Wildflowers: With above-average precipitation this winter that continued through May, we were primed and ready once summer hits for a superbloom of a magnitude not witnessed in years. Starting...

Mountain Manners: Big Snow Year

Written on June 28, 2019. Posted in Blog, Spring, Stewardship, Summer.

2019 was a winter for the books. With precipitation for the winter at 134% of average, and 185% of average for May alone, it’s taken a bit for our trails and forest roads to start drying out....

People ride bikes in front of a lodge-style building with a pair of moose antlers over the door. This is the stumbling moose lodge in pitkin, colorado

Town Profiles: Pitkin

Written on June 11, 2019. Posted in Blog, Visit.

Visit Pitkin: In this series of town profiles, we’ll highlight the history and current stories of several smaller towns around the valley. Some still exist with year-round residents, while others...

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