Colorado’s most iconic mountain drives are open now, with one big exception
Many of Colorado’s most famous high-alpine passes are open now for summer road-tripping season, except for one of the oldest and most popular. U.S. 34 at Trail Ridge Road Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park is closed this Memorial Day weekend. Parts of Trail Ridge were buried under a foot of snow earlier this week […]
Grisly holiday murder case in Frisco presses on with no eyewitnesses, no DNA
Summit County judge Reed Owens today upheld all five charges in a grisly holiday murder case from Frisco, where the body of Griselda Lopez-Racancoj, 20, was found partially dismembered between Christmas and New Year’s. The suspect is her onetime boyfriend, Luis Mendez-Hernandez, 19, of Frisco. Together they have an infant son. An autopsy through Boulder County Coroner’s Office found Lopez-Racancoj was strangled to death. The coroner ruled her death a homicide. […]
Mountain fire pros explain the (mostly) exact science of a fire ban
Here is something we did not expect to say this summer: Fire danger is low in Summit County with no fire restrictions for Memorial Day weekend. Campfires are allowed at campgrounds and into the neighboring forests. But why? “What we’re doing is really trying to mitigate risk for the community but also recognize that people’s ability to […]
USA Today votes Dillon Amp No. 2 in the nation ahead of Red Rocks, more
Dillon Amphitheater has done it again. Readers of USA Today have crowned the jewel of Summit County’s live music scene No. 2 on the latest 10 Best list of amphitheaters in the nation. Last year Dillon Amp claimed No. 9 behind Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail and the perpetual favorite, Red Rocks. This year Dillon beats them both with Red […]
Memorial Day just might kickstart a big summer rebound for mountain towns
Memorial Day travel is beating the odds, and mountain towns are anxiously awaiting more good news to come. AAA predicts a record 45 million people in the U.S. will hit the roads and skies over the next four days, May 21-25. That is barely more than last year, at 44.8 million, but still good for the busiest Memorial […]
Pockets of the Medicine Bows in Wyoming just saw 3+ feet of May snow
Snow totals from yesterday’s moody spring storm range from a few inches to more than three feet. Here in Summit County the snowstake at Arapahoe Basin showed 6 inches in 24 hours. That was the deepest in Summit, where snow occasionally fell on Main Street but never stuck around. Further north, snow sites in Estes Park and Nederland ranged […]
Moody spring storm brings snow to A-Basin the day after closing
This moody spring storm is panning out almost exactly as the rest of the year at Arapahoe Basin, bringing just enough snow to tease, but not enough snow to appease. One day after closing day, a fresh 6 inches is showing on the snowstake at 11,000 feet. A winter weather advisory said up to 12 inches could fall by 9 p.m. tonight with no accumulation at […]
I-70 traffic spikes during A-Basin’s 3rd closing weekend
Weekend traffic on the I-70 mountain corridor was the busiest in five weeks as Arapahoe Basin gave us all one last chance to ride. More than 97,000 cars traveled the Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnels this Friday into Sunday, May 15-17. That was up nearly 9.5% percent from the previous weekend, led by a surge in traffic on Friday and sustained traffic through Sunday, when A-Basin […]
Breck’s old-school fire chief is sold on new-school AI cameras for wildfire
Automated cameras aided by artificial intelligence are helping Summit County firefighters spot and extinguish hot spots long before they burn out of control. Chief Drew Hoehn, at Red White and Blue Fire in Breckenridge, says these cameras have been scanning the county for several years now. And they live up to the hype. “They’re a […]
Breck AirStage returns with 14 free concerts in a retrofitted Airstream
Breck Create this morning dropped the lineup for its summer AirStage series and it is (almost) all local, all the time. Free concerts are happening weekly on Thursdays, June 11 to Sept. 17, featuring 14 artists like Beau Thomas, Chris Bauer, John Berning and Mud Season – the same guys and gals we play on air every Thursday. Maybe cooler than […]