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About Crested Buttte and the Surrounding Area
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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/
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/
Live Cams.
www.rsn.com/cams/crested
Things to do in Crested Butte.
www.mountaingetaway.com/Guides/CrestedButte/recreation.html
www.crestedbuttenews.com/
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
Weather
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
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
Restaurants
www.activediner.com/search/LocalSearch.cfm?
STATE=CO&CITY=Crested%20Butte&CBID=
chefmoz.org/United_States/CO/Crested_Butte/
crestedbutte.colorado.usa.firstratehotels.com/restaurants/
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
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 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
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
www.crestedbutteguides.com/
Events
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/
The mission of the Crested Butte Reel Fest is to nurture community interest in film as art and entertainment.
www.crestedbuttereelfest.com/
www.ftbw.com/
The 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/
Performing Arts
Crested Butte Festival of Arts
The 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/
