Fruita will celebrate a storied Colorado bird later this month during the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival.
Crested Butte faces the modern plights of Colorado mountain towns. How are locals feeling about Vail's new stamp on the ski resort?
BRECKENRIDGE • Snow crunches. Branches snap. In the shady woods east of town, people sneak through the trees.
GUNNISON • A peculiar, sweet sound drifts down Main Street.
“The LAST Great Place.” So reads the town’s welcome sign in this inconspicuous place between towering granite walls, somewhere between the bet…
LA VETA • From the high gravel road, the Sangre de Cristo mountains appear to have been swallowed by a dark shadow that won’t soon rise.
No matter how you get there, the views going into Lake City are spectacular.
GRAND JUNCTION - Bruce Benge ruffles through the clutter of the shoe store's back room, determined to find the picture.
TIMNATH - The house hides under the concrete bridge of Harmony Road, which carves between Costco and Walmart and fast-food joints and parking …
HUERFANO COUNTY - Ray Shaw is passed by every day. Anyone who's driven down Interstate 25 toward Walsenburg has seen his name on the wall of t…
MARBLE - More homes are in demand, and Mike Yellico will provide, though not without feeling some conflict. The long-haired, Chaco-footed owne…
Jim Bishop and his castle are the definition of "Colorful Colorado." Bishop, a lifelong Pueblo resident, acquired property off Colorado 165 as…
VICTOR - Karen and Sam Morrison are known for their brooms. "But we're more than that," Karen says inside Victor Trading Co., the soft-spoken …
Huerfano County - From Interstate 25, it's as impossible to miss as the wind turbines that break the view of the mighty twin peaks: a 300-foot…
CAÑON CITY - The monks are gone, along with the property's Catholic distinction, but whether the former Holy Cross Abbey is more historic than…
EAGLE COUNTY - This winter, maybe on their way to ski resorts off Interstate 70, people will drive west on U.S. 24, passing Leadville and the …
WOODY CREEK - I was warned that I would be an outsider here, and that I wouldn't do myself any favors by asking around about Hunter S. Thompso…
ANTONITO - A man was being mean at the Indiana Jones Bed and Breakfast, and all Sabra Lynn had to do was stare him down. She was ready to kick…
ALLENSPARK - Traditions have come and gone here at Meeker Park Lodge, but this one around suppertime remains. The setting sun casts an orange …
RED FEATHER LAKES - Main street, as the locals know it, is a gravel lot where a three-legged dog hobbles. He wanders by the Ace Hardware, a ne…
WESTCLIFFE - The drive south starts out barren, the empty ribbons of dusty road carving through towns of crumbling buildings and rusting trail…
VICTOR - Much has come and gone here, but one thing that remains is the sporting goods store on 3rd Street. Gus Conley is still here, slumped …
ALMA - It's tough living here. "Definitely, you've got to be a hearty soul to make it a long time," Mayor Gary Goettelman says. Just ask Erik …
MONTE VISTA - A man points his finger to the deep blue sky hanging over the white-capped peaks beyond, tracing the path of the great creature …
Leadville - The blustery storm did not faze James Duke. There he was amid the raging snow that piled up on his black top hat and froze his whi…
Pagosa Springs - The lights of the riverside resort downtown shone bright, illuminating the man across the way. Waylon Smith, long-haired and …
CENTRAL CITY - Mike Keeler is enlivened by the dead of this town. There he was one day this summer, at one of Central City's 10 graveyards kee…
GEORGETOWN - This is the kind of place where a 10-year-old grabs a piece of candy from a store's old wooden shelves, turns around to an old wo…
GARFIELD COUNTY - It's easy getting lost. At least that's what I was told upon finally arriving at Trappers Lake Lodge and Resort. The drive f…
BUENA VISTA - There's tension here between the people who want their home one way and the people who are OK with the way it is going, and when…
RED CLIFF - A bluesy voice could be faintly heard over the river rushing through this town, tucked in a pocket of the White River National For…