By September 2021, campers can expect to find numbered locations west of Crested Butte up Kebler Pass, around Lake Irwin and Splains Gulch, and east of town in Brush Creek. Locations north of town, up ...

Williams, who has been tracking groundwater levels in the East River Valley near Crested Butte since 2014, is talking about the SAIL project, short for Surface Atmospheric Integrated Field Laboratory.

Crested Butte is also fiercely anti-corporate, frowning on national chain stores. But, such subjects are likely to be far from your mind out on the area’s swift-flowing, gin-clear rivers.

CRESTED BUTTE — Never before have I been so cognizant of where 11 and one sit on the imaginary clock that’s apparently followed me here from the Front Range to the Taylor River Canyon, some 15 ...