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Crested Butte, Colorado
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Crested Butte Tourist Information, Weather, and Travel News
Crested
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Each season graces Crested Butte, Colorado with its
own beauty and invitation to play. Snow crowns Crested Butte's Victorian storefronts
and transforms the mountains into frosty masterpieces. Here you'll find the
finest skiing and snowboarding in the country, along with snowmobiling, dog
sledding, ballooning, nordic skiing, ice fishing and a host of other winter
adventures. Only the "Last Great Colorado Ski Town" can offer a
winter adventure experience like no other.
www.crestedbuttechamber.com/
Visit
Crested Butte
We have allied with local photographers,
writers, and community organizations to bring you the only Web site that faithfully
represents the entire Crested Butte community in an on-line format.
www.visitcrestedbutte.com/
RSN
CAMS - Crested Butte, Colorado
Live Cams.
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Crested
Butte Guide
Things to do in Crested Butte.
www.mountaingetaway.com/Guides/CrestedButte/recreation.html
Crested
Butte News
www.crestedbuttenews.com/
Gunnison
Crested Butte
Vacation in a genuine mountain town this winter and
ski Colorado’s Last Great Ski Town, Crested Butte! We’re “off
the beaten path” away from hoards of people and traffic congestion unlike
many of Colorado’s ski areas located along interstates or in major population
areas.
www.gunnisoncrestedbutte.com/page.php
Crested
Butte Weather
www.snowforecast.com/coloradofcst/crestedbutte.html
Weather
Underground - Crested Butte
www.wunderground.com/US/CO/Crested_Butte.html
Crested
Butte, Colorado
www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?cocres
Crested Butte Transportation
Gunnison/Crested
Butte airport
www.gunnisoncrestedbutte.com/page.php?
pname=areatour/gettinghere/flying
Located in a remote valley high in the Rocky Mountains, part of Crested Butte’s charm is that it feels very far away from the big cities of the Colorado front range, and the Interstate-served resort areas of Summit County. However, this doesn’t mean it’s all that hard to get here..
www.visitcrestedbutte.com/travel.cfm
Crested Butte Restaurants
Crested
Butte Restaurant Guide
www.activediner.com/search/LocalSearch.cfm?
STATE=CO&CITY=Crested%20Butte&CBID=Chef
MOZ
Restaurant
Guide
chefmoz.org/United_States/CO/Crested_Butte/
Restaurants
in Crested Butte
crestedbutte.colorado.usa.firstratehotels.com/restaurants/
Crested Butte Sightseeing, Touring and Attractions
Pioneer
Museum
The Gunnison County Pioneer and Historical Society
had its beginning in 1880 with the early pioneers who settled in the Gunnison
Valley.
www.gunnisoncrestedbutte.com/page.php?pname=areatour/gunnison/history
The mission of the Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum is to bring about a better understanding and appreciation by the community of its history and cultural heritage of mining, ranching, skiing, and other activities which have been indigenous to the East River Valley, particularly Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte.
www.crestedbuttemuseum.com/
Self
Guided Driving Tour
We
invite you to enjoy our heritage driving tour! Along the way you will experience
incredible vistas, meet friendly locals and see that our county is steeped
in rich Western and Victorian mining era history. The tour self guides you
to interesting sites throughout the county. Most of the sites are accessible
by passenger vehicle and some are only accessible in the non-winter months.
www.gunnisoncrestedbutte.com/page.php?
pname=areatour/heritage/tour
The
Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
Since the sport’s creation almost thirty years
ago, mountain biking has grown immensely and the Hall of Fame has worked to
document the individuals and events which have significantly contributed to
mountain biking history.
www.mtnbikehalloffame.com/
Kebler
Pass
Kebler Pass is a very scenic dirt road through the
West Elk Mountains. In the summer it is meticulously maintained for passenger
car traffic, since it is a vital connection between Crested Butte and points
north, such as the I70 corridor. In the winter it's closed.
cyclepass.com/t_p_Kebler.html
Crested Butte Outdoor Activities
Ski
Crested
Butte Mountain Resort
It’s true, we’re not right on the interstate
like some other ski areas. People who come here consider that a good thing.
Think about it. Do you really want to be looking at (and listening to) highway
traffic while you’re on a ski vacation?
www.skicb.com/
Crested
Butte Nordic Center
The Crested Butte Nordic Council (CBNC) serves residents
of and visitors to Gunnison County throughout the winter months, offering
cross-country skiing, ice skating, snowshoeing,guided tours and sledding.
Our mission is to provide individuals of all ages and abilities the opportunity
to learn, enjoy and improve in the sports of cross-country (Nordic) skiing
and snowshoeing.
www.cbnordic.org/
Crested
Butte Ski Resort
There's plenty of space for all abilities, but hot
skiers and riders will want to know there are more double-black diamond ski
trails than any other resort in Colorado.
www.onthesnow.com/CO/120/
Golf
The
Club at Crested Butte
Surrounded by majestic mountains and accented by
stands of shimmering aspens, something refreshingly different awaits you.
This is The Club at Crested Butte, a community where the atmosphere is approachable
and comfortable.
www.theclubatcrestedbutte.com/
Fishing
Dragonfly
Anglers
Fishing the Gunnison Drainage out of Crested Butte,
Colorado on the Taylor River, Gunnison River, and East River.
www.dragonflyanglers.com/
Three
Rivers Resort and Outfitting
Three Rivers Outfitting offers the most experienced
guides in the valley for rafting, fishing and kayaking.
www.3riversoutfitting.com/
Biking
Crested
Butte Mountain Biking
The Crested Butte area, home of the Mountain Bike
Hall of Fame, has some of the best mountain biking in the country.
www.mtnbikehalloffame.com/crestedbutte.cfm
Mountain
Biking: Upper Loop / Upper Upper
A lot of recent trail-building activity has vastly
improved the accessibility and variety of this network of trails along the
base of Mt. Crested Butte. There are many ways to ride these trails, either
as connectors to Brush Creek rides, or as high quality rides in themselves.
www.alpineer.com/html/TrailUpperLoop.html
Crested Butte Mountain Guides
www.crestedbutteguides.com/
Crested Butte Events
Crested
Butte Wildflower Festival
Visit us next summer in beautiful Crested
Butte for a week of botanical celebration! Bring your family and together
you will have an unforgettable experience: enjoy breathtaking mountain landscapes
and magnificent native flora that prompted our 1989 designation by the Colorado
Legislature as the Wildflower Capital of Colorado.
www.crestedbuttewildflowerfestival.com/
Crested
Butte Reel Fest
The mission of the Crested Butte Reel Fest
is to nurture community interest in film as art and entertainment.
www.crestedbuttereelfest.com/
Fat
Tire Bike Week
www.ftbw.com/
The Arts in the Crested Butte Area
Performing Arts
Crested Butte Festival of ArtsThe Mission of the Center for the Arts is to enrich and expand community participation in the Arts. We do this by hosting a wide variety of performances throughout the year—concerts, theater, dance, speakers, conferences and more.
www.crestedbuttearts.org/page.php
Music
Crested
Butte Music Festival
The
Crested Butte Music Festival functions as the sole local year-round presenter
of a broad array of both music and dance genres. Included are orchestral and
chamber music, opera, jazz, bluegrass, ballet and modern dance, and arts education
for all ages.
www.crestedbuttemusicfestival.com/
Crested
Butte Festival of Arts
The Festival caters to a variety of tastes and strives
for a well-balanced show featuring fine artists and craft-persons.
www.crestedbutteartfestival.com/