24,000 cars in 5 hours only a prelude to I-70’s busiest month
The busiest five hours of summer hit I-70 at 10 a.m. Sunday. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. more than 24,000 cars traveled I-70 through the Eisenhower-Johnson tunnels, equal to 17% of all weekend traffic in just 7% of the weekend. This past weekend was already one of the busiest since spring break with 140,055 […]
Your preview guide to Summit County Fourth of July
Fireworks? We don’t need no stinking fireworks! For years now there have been no summer fireworks in Summit. Local officials agree: The explosives are too risky with a dry forest – Summit jumped from moderate to very high fire danger in recent weeks – and even if the forest is soaking wet, you might end […]
63 miles of rec path from Vail to Glenwood Canyon is (almost) finished
A paved recpath spanning the width of Eagle County is getting its final few miles this summer and next. On July 1 crews break ground near Wolcott on the last seven miles of the Eagle Valley Trail. This 63-mile project is over a decade in the making, connecting Vail to Glenwood Canyon with offshoots into Minturn. When finished […]
Breck PD: Your electric dirt bikes are not street or recpath legal
Local teenagers are getting busted for ripping around Breckenridge on electric dirt bikes. The machines, including brands like Surron, are considered off-highway vehicles. They are only permitted on U.S. Forest Service roads where OHVs are allowed, like the North Fork Swan system up Tiger Road, or portions of the Tenderfoot Mountain system. Why are these […]
Camper dancer hospitalized in fall near Green Mountain Res
A woman was having a good time at her campsite near Green Mountain Reservoir – until she wasn’t. Summit County Sheriff’s Office reports she was dancing on the roof of a camper topper when she fell to the ground, knocking herself unconscious. She fell an estimated 8 feet. Others at the campsite called an ambulance. […]
Breck Terrace is getting new boilers after disastrous January deep freeze
Breckenridge Resort is putting its money where its mouth is with summer upgrades at Breckenridge Terrace on Airport Road. Those are the employee apartments where heat and hot water failed during a deep freeze in January, when temperatures barely crawled out of the single digits for a week. “We’re going to replace a bunch of […]
Summer monsoon won’t disappoint in Summit, most of the U.S.
Summit County and most of the U.S. are in the green zone this monsoon season. The latest precipitation outlook from NOAA shows promising odds of above-average rainfall for three-quarters of the nation starting July 1. Not a single state will be drier than usual. In Summit and Eagle counties, there is a one-in-three chance of above-average […]
First Summit County fire ban in more than a year arrives this Friday
The first fire ban of summer is right around the corner. Summit County commissioners today voted to ban backcountry campfires starting Friday June 27. Most of the White River National Forest is doing the same, according to sheriff Jaime FitzSimons. It’s known as a Stage One fire ban, and in recent years it has become […]
Disgraced Team Summit ski coach not in jail on renewed child sex assault charges
A New Mexico grand jury has indicted a former Team Summit ski coach for allegedly assaulting a young athlete in Taos. On June 18 the grand jury handed down two renewed charges for first and second-degree sexual penetration of a minor, both felonies. If convicted, the 48-year-old Frisco man will spend at least three years in […]
Ask the experts: Is pine pollen season worse than usual in Summit?
Pollen season is here in Summit County with clouds of yellow pine pollen and puffs of white aspen pollen. “It really inundates our skies, our parking lots and even our waterscape,” Dan Schroder with the local CSU Extension office tells Krystal 93. But like a winter powder day it’ll be gone before you know it. […]