Mountains and Mesas CO Travel Region

28/12/2020

A great stop when in the Travel Region. Double check hours before you arrive. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/colorado/unique-historical-site-co/

Discover an often overlooked part of Colorado state history when you visit the innovative Mancos Common Press.

10/12/2020

Telluride Magazine Winter/Spring 2020-21

07/12/2020

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This year's U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree came from the Western Slope of Colorado. Follow it along its journey.

04/08/2020

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29/05/2020

A beautiful state for living.

A snapshot of the people and places of magnificent, action-packed and wonderfully diverse Colorado! . . . Licensed Music - Summer Kennedy, Musicbed

11/02/2020

Attention all you guys and gals who haven't planned something special for your love on Valentine's Day. It's Friday, it's a holiday weekend, so it's a perfect time to plan a romantic weekend trip to Ouray. Just imagine your love's face when you announce your plan to get away to the mountains, enjoy a sweet hotel, cabin or bed and breakfast, delicious food, unique shopping, snow adventures, live entertainment, and hot springs! Check out this offering from the Ouray County Performing Arts Guild, including a special discount if you buy tickets in advance!

OCPAG has a SWEET deal for you!
Use the coupon code "HEART" and receive $6 off each ticket purchased to the February 14 concert, either online or mention at the door.
And, there's a chocolate dessert reception following the concert!
For tickets and information, visit ocpag.org

11/02/2020

Congrats to Ouray, Silverton, Purgatory and more. A great article featuring the Mountains and Mesa's Black Book of winter's best.

20/01/2020

Thanks Lenire Bates for sharing this pix from the past.

This photo was likely taken quite early in Durango’s history, some time after 1890. The view is from east to west across Third Avenue at...

05/01/2020

Our part of Colorado can offer some great challenges, not all of them are as big as this. Find your challenge to fit your needs here in the Mountains and Mesas Travel Region.

Matt Wells and Denny Hogan have been adventuring together for decades. As they push 70, they're not ready to give it up yet.

26/12/2019

🎄❤️Merry Christmas and Happy holidays from the Ouray Ice Park family to yours❤️🎄 !!!

01/12/2019

On the San Juan Skyway. Not a great time to drive the Byway, but a virtual tour is always nice.

White out conditions and 19” of fresh snow in 24 hours!! ❄️🌬
Download our app for snow totals, open trails and more! Stay safe out there!
http://tel.ski/app


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24/11/2019

It's a great tour.

18/11/2019

The Durango Train is offering all kinds of great stops and stays for this winter and spring. Get started planning now.

03/11/2019

Make some of your own history in Ouray.

St. Elmo Hotel, Ouray, circa 1900.

The St. Elmo Hotel opened in April 1898 in Ouray as a hotel for miners. The owner was Katherine “Kitty” O’Brien Heit. Kitty is standing here in front of the hotel, in its early days. The other woman, standing on the step, and the two men, are not identified, although it is likely that the man standing nearest to her is her husband, Joseph.

Kitty O’Brien arrived in Ouray in 1886 with her young son Freddy. She married Joseph Heit, an electrician, in 1889. She became the owner of the Bon Ton restaurant in about 1890. Using proceeds from her restaurant business, she started construction on the hotel, located next door to the Bon Ton, in early 1897, and opened it a year later.

The St. Elmo was known as the miner’s hotel, and her boarders called her Aunt Kitty. She was sympathetic to the miners’ union movement, and the hotel hosted meetings and social events of the Miners’ Union and the Western Federation of Labor. Kitty Heit died in May 1915 and the Ouray Herald published the following tribute:

“Her many acts of kindness and charity are legion and she was recognized as the miners’ friend. They were always welcome at her home whether flush with money or down and out. Her hotel came about as near being a real home for the lonesome and homeless as possible and everything was done for the comfort and pleasure of “her boys.” During her residence in Ouray she had been a regular “mother” to hundreds and no one could possibly be missed more than she.”

The hotel passed through various hands over the next decades. The current owners lovingly restored and maintain the hotel, and run it as nine-bedroom bed-and-breakfast inn. The outside appearance is much the same now as when this photo was taken nearly 120 years ago, and the hotel is furnished with many antiques. The site of the original Bon Ton Restaurant is now a patio, but the Bon Ton still offers fine dining in the basement of the hotel. St. Elmo Hotel is listed in the National Registry of Historic Buildings and is part of Ouray’s National Historic District.

For more information about the St. Elmo Hotel, visit their website at stelmohotel.com

Photo courtesy Denver Public Library.

12/10/2019

Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park!

Join us October 19 through 21. Attend a 20-minute ranger talk at Gunnison Point Overlook, held daily at 10 am and 1:30 pm. Birthday cake will be served October 21, at 11 am, at the South Rim Visitor Center.

We'd love to hear your stories and memories from the past 20 (or more) years!

04/10/2019

03/10/2019

OOOO, AAAAHHHH

Add-on adventure packages available.

27/09/2019

More fun in the Mountains and Mesas.

22/09/2019

Allow 1/2 hour train ride each direction and about 1 1/2 hours at the Pumpkin Patch.

17/09/2019

Happy 20th Anniversary on October 21st to the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area. It is a remarkable stretch.

09/09/2019

Celebrate the Mexican Heritage in Delta on September 14th. Authentic dancing, music and food.

Community

30/08/2019

Hotels should package this opportunity.

Weekends October 5th - 20th.

30/08/2019

Hot Springs are HOT this summer. Find out why and find one of them.

28/08/2019

Some nice reviews of newer breweries in the Mountains and Mesas Travel Region. Be the first to know.

Recently, I went on a trip to Western Colorado to finally visit a number of breweries that I had yet to mark off my list. I was joined by my very good friends and fellow Colorado Brewery Masters, Ruth & Patrick Malone. (Click through their links to read about their journey to visit every Colo

22/08/2019

Do you love exploring the Mountains and Mesas Region? Are you looking for more ways to explore? How about doing it with a Polaris ATV, utility trailer, $1000 shopping spree to Ski & Bow Rack in Pagosa springs and more? Talk about a cool raffle! Enter today at https://web.pagosachamber.com/events/Pagosa-Springs-Adventure-Raffle-5151/details

And the best part is, need not be present to win. Of course, it's worth it to see hot air balloons in the San Juans! :)

20/08/2019

If the wildflowers this year are any indication of the beauty to come - get your cameras ready, this is going to be epic!!

Discover the best fall panoramas in Colorado’s mountain ranges, from the San Juan Mountains to the Sangre de Cristos, and creative ways to see the colors, too.

20/08/2019

Some of the very best fishing in western Colorado with some expert and talented people. Try it.

Fishing on the Gunnison River with Gunnison RIver Expeditions - 1/2 day to multi day trips. 970-872-3232

20/08/2019

A wonderful trip in time with nature.

Daily May 20th-October 12th.