The Bureau of Land Management Rocky Mountain District Fire and Aviation Management Unit will conduct pile burns in nine locations this winter on Royal Gorge Field Office-managed lands in Chaffee, Fremont and Custer counties.
The Colorado High School Activities Association released the spring season C football league alignments and schedules Nov. 13.
Monarch Mountain is staffed, trained and has its building ready for the ski season.
Now it just needs more snow.
A Colorado Parks and Wildlife search team's two-day recovery effort came to an end midday Monday when divers from Pueblo County Search and Rescue recovered a body in the water at Clear Creek Reservoir.
Searchers continued to comb Clear Creek Reservoir Sunday looking for a boy who went missing after the canoe he and a friend were in capsized Saturday.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently signed a partnership agreement with the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics to help educate people on how to recreate responsibly to conserve Colorado’s natural resources.
CPW is the first state agency in the U.S. that oversees parks, fish and wildlife to partner with Leave No Trace and advocate for both public land and wildlife conservation.
On Nov. 3, Coloradans voted to pass Proposition #114 - The Restoration of Gray Wolves, a measure directing the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to develop a plan to reintroduce gray wolves west of the Continental Divide. With this decision, the planning process for reintroduction will begin.
As Colorado Parks and Wildlife opens Fishers Peak State Park for a limited “sneak peek” recreation opportunity, the agency continues to look ahead for future state park opportunities. Demand for accessible outdoor spaces remains high in the state, and CPW invites Coloradans to share their ideas for properties or partnerships that may become the next Colorado state park.
With county sales tax revenues posting stronger collections than expected during the pandemic, the Chaffee Common Ground Citizens Advisory Committee will consider whether to recommend additional funding for strengthening forest health and reducing wildfire danger.
Salida Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service announced the last day to purchase fuelwood permits is Nov. 13.
As of now, Buena Vista High School is planning on beginning Season B of its sports seasons on Jan. 4, said athletic director Troy Baker.
The new, motorized singletrack trail in the Four Mile Travel Management Area, DudBobs, is open, but it took a team effort during the last several years to complete.
Chaffee County Search & Rescue–North is seeking to recruit new volunteers as the busy summer season closes.
Homeowners in the Chalk Creek drainage created more than 160 piles of slash in preparation for the Chaffee Chips neighborhood fire mitigation event taking place this weekend.
The 2020 cross country season was an unprecedented one for Buena Vista High School – not only because of the looming omnipresence of COVID-19, not only because the Lady Demons finished the season undefeated, but because, for the first time in school history, the girls took home the Class 2A state championship.
Chaffee County Sheriff John Spezze issued stage 2 fire restrictions for unincorporated Chaffee County effective Monday morning.
The Bureau of Land Management has enacted Stage 2 Fire Restrictions for lands throughout Southern Colorado, including those in Chaffee County.
The announcement came on a windswept fall afternoon one day after the Cameron Peak Fire north of Rocky Mountain National Park grew to become the largest wildfire in state history, breaking a record that had been set just 48 days prior when the Pine Gulch Fire north of Grand Junction grew larger than the 2002 Hayman Fire.
Members of the Central Colorado Unmanned Aerial Systems Club and the Buena Vista Recreation Department broke ground Oct. 8 for the Buena Vista Drone Flying Park, which, when complete, will offer multiple ways for drone pilots to hone their flying skills.
Buena Vista’s Chandler Smethers finished in a tie for 56th place out of 84 golfers in the state golf tournament last week.
The BVHS cross country teams are headed to the state championship meet Saturday in Colorado Springs.
OpenSnow.com’s Joel Gratz speaks in Salida, says ‘odds are stacked in favor’ of an average winter
Denny Arter was a member of the Greater Arkansas River Nature Association before she even moved to Chaffee County back in 2002.
elevateHER, voted as Buena Vista’s favorite non-profit in 2019 by our readers, works to give young women the opportunity to get outdoors and learn skills that will help them seek employment in the recreation industry.
When the Leadville 100 was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, 22-year-old Annie Hughes, a Buena Vista High School graduate who lives in Leadville and had been training for the ultramarathon, did the sensible thing and decided that she would run a course that was even longer and higher.
Buena Vista’s drone flying park on a portion of the Rodeo Grounds will take off this week with a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday morning.
BV runners fill four of the top six spots in Tri-Peaks varsity race; boys take second
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When the Leadville 100 was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, 22-year-old Annie Hughes, a Buena Vista High School graduate who lives in Leadville and had been training for the ultramarathon, did the sensible thing and decided that she would run a course that was even longer and higher.
Buena Vista’s drone flying park on a portion of the Rodeo Grounds will take off this week with a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday morning.
BV runners fill four of the top six spots in Tri-Peaks varsity race; boys take second
Chandler Smethers and Cole Reavis finished the last two league matches at Pueblo Country Club and Hollydot G.C. to finish eighth and 10th in the final standings to earn all-conference honors in the Tri-Peaks League. Team finished in 4th place.
The Greater Arkansas River Nature Association kicked off its annual fundraiser on Saturday, National Public Lands Day, honoring some of it’s volunteers while raising money to support its mission. The fundraiser, along with the organization’s Environmental Hero Awards, are being held online this year.
The Buena Vista High School cross country teams had a great weekend for varsity at Salida’s Vandeever Ranch and the JV, who ran around Frantz Lake, BVHS coach Julia Fuller said.
Season pass holders will be able to ski any day they want to this season at Monarch, but people buying single-day lift tickets will need to plan ahead.
Monarch Mountain’s 2020-2021 operating plan includes wearing masks on chairlifts, limited capacity indoors and a push to get people to purchase lift tickets ahead of time, among other changes to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Buena Vista cross country teams hosted their annual run, this time over 3 days and away from its traditional home along the Arkansas River.
Buena Vista High School was closed to in-person instruction Tuesday to investigate a possible exposure to a positive case of COVID-19, Chaffee County Public Health director Andrea Carlstrom said.
Buena Vista schools will participate in C season sports, including football during the spring this year, said Buena Vista School District athletic director Troy Baker.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife received 3,644 bear reports from April 1 through Aug. 31, down slightly from the 3,855 during the same timeframe the previous year.
Season pass holders will be able to ski any day they want to this season at Monarch, but people buying single-day lift tickets will need to plan ahead.
Monarch Mountain’s 2020-2021 operating plan includes wearing masks on chairlifts, limited capacity indoors and a push to get people to purchase lift tickets ahead of time, among other changes to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife will be conducting mandatory chronic wasting disease testing during the 2020 hunting season in specific Game Management Units as part of efforts to control the spread with its Colorado Chronic Wasting Disease Response Plan.
Heavy July rains washed out parts of the Rainbow Trail, which was then closed to wheeled traffic.
The U.S. Forest Service, San Isabel National Forest, Salida Ranger District, announced Thursday it has reopened a section between roads 101 (Bear Creek) and 108 (Methodist Mountain) to all uses.
The Buena Vista High School Demons cross country varsity teams raced last weekend on the state course in Colorado Springs.
“It is always exciting to get everyone’s feet on the trails out there. We saw impressive performances across the board,” said BVHS coach Julia Fuller, adding “and it’s fun to foreshadow the possibilities for a state race a month from now.”
Bronco Driver magazine’s annual Super Celebration has been going on in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee for 17 years.
“Its been a little slow as far as high school tourneys go,” Demons golf coach Scott Crites deadpanned. “We had three cancelled last week because of weather.”
After the Colorado High School Activities Association’s board of directors voted to stick to the current modified 2020-2021 sports schedule last week, the association took up the issue again on Friday
“The seasons are out of whack!” writes roving photographer William Helms. This photo was taken Saturday, Sept. 12, from the Collegiate Peaks Overlook off U.S. 24/285 near Johnson Village. The mountains look like winter after our recent snowfall, while the vegetation and trees in the valley…
A full-day volunteer event will take place on Friday, Sept. 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to revegetate an area in the Fourmile Travel Management Area to prevent further erosion and damage to trails, including Bacon Bits and Midland singletrack trails.
Envision Chaffee County is hosting a resident and visitor survey to identify perceptions about outdoor recreation in Chaffee County. Go to http://bit.ly/CRS-2020 to take the 10-minute, online survey.
Jon MacManus was doing a 500-piece puzzle in Lake City Sunday night. Looking at all of the pieces scattered on the table helped him put his recent feat in perspective.
The Buena Vista High School Lady Demons cross country teams won two meets last week.
In the spring, Earl Richmond, director of Buena Vista’s recreation department, anticipated that the summer would be “slower than normal” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Like all search and rescue units, the Park County Search and Rescue team wins some, and loses some.
Buena Vista’s shoulder-season celebration 14erFest will not be held this year due to “too many uncertainties to juggle,” according to a Facebook post on the event’s page.
The Monarch Pass Forest and Watershed Health Project has entered a new phase, and Miller Timber Services has begun work to remove beetle-kill trees on the steep slopes south of U.S. 50 using cut-to-length (CTL) logging equipment.
Although Salida Bike Fest will be trimmed down this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, bikers still have the opportunity to race, ride the Monarch Crest and parade around town on decorated bikes.
Earlier this month, the Buena Vista board of trustees approved plans for a drone park on a section of the Rodeo Grounds property.
The state 2A runner-up lady Demons won a valley neighbors meet with Salida and Leadville Friday.
“It was a wonderful start to the season,” said BVHS coach Julia Fuller.
Envision Chaffee County is hosting a resident and visitor survey to identify perceptions about outdoor recreation in Chaffee County.
Great Sand Dunes National Park officials announced the closure of 100 yards surrounding Upper and Lower Sand Creek lakes and 100 yards on both sides of Sand Creek from where it exits each of the lakes and extends 5 miles downstream.
Chaffee County Search & Rescue-North conducted three missions last weekend to assist hikers who had injured themselves hiking in the Sawatch Range.
Colorado landowners who want to protect private forestlands that could someday be threatened by development – or conversion to other non-forest uses – now have the opportunity to submit proposals to the Forest Legacy Program.
Bureau of Land Management public affairs specialist Brant Porter announced the reintroduction of a Stage 1 Fire ban on BLM-managed lands in Lake, Chaffee, and Fremont counties Wednesday afternoon.
That announcement was quickly followed by a similar Stage 2 fire ban for unincorporated Chaffee County by Chaffee County Sheriff John Spezze.
For the first time since the 1960’s, boaters are able to travel down the entirety of the upper Arkansas River from its origin south of Leadville past Buena Vista and beyond without the need to portage.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis issued a statewide ban on open fires in response to major wildfires burning in the state, Colorado Public Radio and 9News in Denver reported Tuesday.
The Buena Vista High School golf team placed tenth in the Montrose Invitational tournament Aug. 14.
Collegiate Peaks Ladies’ Golf League completed their 2020 season with the club championship Aug. 15.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologist Lance Carpenter and wildlife pathologist Karen Fox have initiated a study looking into a disease outbreak in mountain goats on the summit of Mount Evans.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like every other car and truck coming to Buena Vista this summer has three or four mountain bikes with it.
I have a feeling the cars without bikes on them have hiking and trail running shoes, maybe even cowboy boots, in the trunk.
It’s more than just a feeling, the increase of trail users in and around Buena Vista is real.
The race in BV Aug. 2 saw 50 finishers, and was won by Tracy Loughlin, running with Mary Margaret, who completed the race through the trails of Midland Hill in 2 hours, 2 minutes, 13 seconds.
The Buena Vista Demons opened the 2020 golf season with a fourth-place tournament finsih at Cedaredge Aug. 7.
Sports and art will imitate life this school year with slow rollouts of seasons and competitions that may take different approaches from previous seasons.
Chalk Creek drainage will the target of fire mitigion work this fall. A Zoom Information Session takes place on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
The Buena Vista board of trustees enthusiastically gave the go-ahead to the BV Rec department’s pursuit of a Great Outdoors Colorado grant that would assist in funding the creation of a multi-generational facility at the River Park including long-awaited pickleball courts, ADS-accessible trails and additional singletrack opportunities.
Roaming adventurer William Helms captured these wildflowers Sunday evening a little before sunset on Cottonwood Pass above Found Lake and the Lost Lake trail.
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