Highway 9 ‘fireball’ extinguished in the wee hours near Breckenridge 

A driver on Highway 9 early this morning reported a mystery “fireball” burning on the pavement within feet of dry, brown grass.  Summit County Sheriff’s Office confirms the fireball was reported around 2:30 a.m. between Breckenridge and Frisco. Firefighters and deputies scrambled into action and quickly extinguished the flaming ball.   Sheriff’s body-cam footage shows a deputy dousing the flaming ball with a fire […]

Breck names the McCain open space Little Daisy, but it could change again 

Twenty acres of open space on the Blue River north of Breckenridge show just how tricky it is to pick a name for a public place.  Breckenridge town council last night heard a pitch to name those 20 acres the Little Daisy Open Space, in a nod to a town-owned mining claim in nearby French Gulch.   Little […]

Hoosier Pass reservoir with a history in water court inches closer to expansion

After more than a decade of deals, and multiple battles in water court, a reservoir on Hoosier Pass is ready to grow. Colorado Springs Utility, the owner of Montgomery Reservoir in Park County, is applying for permits to upgrade the reservoir. This would more than double the reservoir’s capacity by 2032, and supply about one-third […]

2026 has been hot, dry and dusty at Green Mountain Res. But it’s nothing compared to 1939. 

Green Mountain Reservoir has not seen a summer this painful since the year it was built.  The reservoir, created by a dam on the Blue River in north Summit County, never hit capacity this year. At the end of summer runoff on June 10 the shoreline was down by 60 feet.   Yesterday, when Summit unofficially broke 86 degrees Fahrenheit, the shoreline at Green Mountain was down by 83 feet and falling.  Green Mountain Reservoir levels this year (elevation)  Data […]