Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’m halfway up the first pitch of the Gold Mountain Via Ferrata in the town of Ouray—a spectacular pocket of southwestern Colorado ...

You remember the sizzle, the conversations that stretch longer than planned, and the feeling that the stop was absolutely worth rearranging the route. Colorado’s mountain towns are full of beautiful ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A popular lake near Ouray is facing possible change after U.S. Forest Service officials identified a crack in the dam on the north end of the lake. Crystal Lake can be accessed easily ...

A ghost town in the middle of nowhere. That’s how people described Ouray during winters of the 1980s. Nestled in a remote box canyon of southwest Colorado, “some mornings there wasn’t a single car on ...

Stacks of local Colorado newspapers were stolen from their racks Wednesday morning — just hours after a bombshell story detailing a teen’s alleged gang rape at the police chief’s home ran on the front ...

This article originally appeared on ModernFarmer.com. Driving through the tiny mountain town of Ouray in southwest Colorado (population 1,000), you’d never guess the picturesque enclave is home to one ...

I first heard of Ouray’s legendary Ice Park in 1998, as a student with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), traveling through Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains. “They make ice routes that are ...

Timmy Foulkes, an ice farmer at the Ouray Ice Park, turns off the shower heads that drench the walls of the Uncompahgre gorge as they try desperately to build ice in Ouray on Dec. 30, 2025. (The ...