Vail Resorts has never sold a ski area. Matthew Prince, the 50-year-old billionaire behind the tech company Cloudflare, wants to change that. He lifts up his phone on a Zoom call with The Colorado Sun and shows a graphic of Vail Resorts’ struggling stock ... See more
The streak is over. Colorado ski areas saw a 24% collapse in visitation in 2025-26, marking the sharpest downturn for the state’s signature resort industry in more than 40 years. After four years of record-setting traffic, visits to the state’s 26 ski hil... See more
Paul “Woody” Woodward, a 38-year volunteer mountain rescue legend with Alpine Rescue Team, pulls up a Slack channel on his computer, where six rescuers are working through an aviation rescue of a teenage hiker who fell on Mount Elbert earlier this month. ... See more
The Colorado outdoor recreation office last week wrapped a four-year effort to award more than $3.6 million in federal grant money to 50 projects in 27 counties, marking a highlight achievement for the four-person office. “It’s had such a big impact,” sai... See more
With snowpacks in Colorado’s river basins at record lows after the saddest winter ever, the flows in the state’s rivers and streams likely have already peaked. That’s a bummer for the state’s rafting industry, which floats rural economies across Colorado ... See more
