Mount Crested Butte owes its existence to a massive volcanic episode that roiled Colorado 30 million years ago. —Photo by Terri Cook The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (KREX) — Crested Butte, now a ski resort destination and wildflower capitol of Colorado. But this wasn’t ...

One of the beauties of Colorado mountain biking is its diversity, from trails high on the Continental Divide to the Colorado ...

Several tumbling waterfalls are visible from the Oh Be Joyful Trail close to Crested Butte. (Libby Kinder) Crested Butte might be my new favorite Colorado mountain town. In September my husband and I ...

Filmmaker Conor Hagen was born in Crested Butte, Colorado, but grew up in Taos, New Mexico. With ties to the Crested Butte (often referred to as CB) community, Hagen considered the town and ski area ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Recognized as a mecca of mountain biking, Crested Butte is also a pioneer of fat biking. Fat bikes use oversized tires to boost stability and traction while ...

There’s something almost peculiar about Crested Butte. It’s got heaps of charm—colorful Victorian storefronts line the tiny downtown, which began as a mining camp in the 1880s—and the terrain at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crested Butte, a mountain town on the western slope of Colorado, is now known as a popular ski resort and tourist destination, and ...