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Breckenridge to offer free Aspen Alley shuttle for 3 weeks during peak fall colors

The town of Breckenridge will offer a free shuttle to the popular Aspen Alley Trail for three weeks this fall in an effort to cut down on traffic and parking congestion during peak leaf-peeping season.

A mountain biker looks up at the aspen trees as they turn gold on the Aspen Alley Trail near Breckenridge on Sept. 20, 2024. (Andrew Maciejewski, Summit Daily News)

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Denver-based Trash Panda Disc Golf partnered with Crocs footwear company to release a specialty line of discs featuring recycled shoes on Earth Day 2026. The company will add a driver to the collection, called Crocs Procyon (pictured), on Sept. 14, 2026. (Provided by Trash Panda Disc Golf)

Colorado disc golf company turns old Crocs, and other trash, into new products

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Frank Keesling collects dinner plates from guests during a dinner cruise aboard his pontoon boat on Lake Dillon on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (Photo by Jason Connolly/Special to The Denver Post)

Lake Dillon is too low to keep its water taxi in business, so Capt. Frank has other ideas

hiking

A family takes an evening walk around Lake Irwin

Popular Crested Butte campground shutting down until 2028

This closure means there are few campgrounds where you can reserve sites near Crested Butte. The rest are first-come, first-served.

travel

Visitors can hold and take photos with a small alligator and feed larger gators and tortoises at Colorado Gators Reptile Rescue. (Courtesy of the Colorado Tourism Office/Lumenati Productions)

Weird and wonderful roadside attractions across the West

Slow down for the World's Wonder View Tower, a gator farm and a big fork

wildlife

A black bear lifts rocks looking for food along a grassy hillside in Estes Park, Colorado in 2024. (Courtesy Dawn Wilson Photography)

Bear enters Estes Park home, attacks woman

A bear scratched an Estes Park woman in her 80s and knocked her to the ground early Thursday morning after entering her home, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

fishing

The Gunnison River flows into Blue Mesa Reservoir on March 25, 2026, near Gunnison. Low snowpack in the area is adding to drought concerns across the Colorado River Basin. Below the dam parts of the lower Gunnison River could run dry in October. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Mourning the lower Gunnison River. Parts will likely run dry by October (��ap)

By October a big portion of the lower Gunnison River in western Colorado will be...

Rocky Mountain National Park

Entry to Colorado national parks, monuments is free on Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know.

Entry to Colorado’s national parks and monuments will be free on Tuesday to celebrate the...

camping

Popular Crested Butte campground shutting down until 2028

This closure means there are few campgrounds where you can reserve sites near Crested Butte....

skiing

Skiers descend Vail Mountain on Jan. 10. The mountain is seeing historically low snowpack, which is affecting tourism revenue in the town of Vail.
(John LaConte, Vail Daily)

Vail announces 2026-27 opening dates for its Colorado ski resorts

Goodbye heat dome, hello ... ski season?

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Breckenridge to offer free Aspen Alley shuttle for 3 weeks during peak fall colors

The town of Breckenridge will offer a free shuttle to the popular Aspen Alley Trail...

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