Aspen, Colorado Aspen .
Aspen, Colorado Downtown Aspen, CO, with view to ski View south along Galena Street in downtown Aspen, 2010.
The Aspen Mountain ski region is in the background.
- locale Aspen City Hall Location of Aspen in Colorado Aspen, Colorado is positioned in the US Aspen, Colorado Wikimedia Commons: Aspen, Colorado Website: The City of Aspen & Pitkin County Aspen is the Home Rule Municipality that is the governmental center of county and the most crowded municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. Its populace was 6,658 at the 2010 United States Census.
Aspen is situated in a remote region of the Rocky Mountains' Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains, along the Roaring Fork River at an altitude just below 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above sea level on the Western Slope, 11 miles (18 km) west of the Continental Divide.
Founded as a quarrying camp amid the Colorado Silver Boom and later titled "Aspen" because of the abundance of aspen trees in the area, the town/city boomed amid the 1880s, its first decade of existence.
Aspen's fortunes reversed in the mid-20th century when neighboring Aspen Mountain was advanced into a ski resort, and industrialist Walter Paepcke bought many properties in the town/city and redeveloped them.
Today it is home to three famous establishments, two of which Paepcke helped found, that have global importance: the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Aspen Institute, and the Aspen Center for Physics. Singer John Denver wrote two music about Aspen after settling there.
Both of them popularized Aspen among the countercultural youth of the 1970s as an ideal place to live, and the town/city continued to expanded even as it attained notoriety for some of the era's hedonistic excesses as well, especially its drug culture.
As a result of this influx of wealth, Aspen boasts some of the most expensive real estate prices in the United States and many middle-class inhabitants can no longer afford to live there.
Silver wire specimens from the historic Mollie Gibson Mine near Aspen Aspen Lumber Company, 1882 Aspen in 1962 Originally titled Ute City, the small improve was retitled Aspen in 1880, and, in its peak manufacturing years of 1891 and 1892, surpassed Leadville as the United States' most productive silver-mining district. Production period due to the passage of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, which doubled the government's purchase of silver.
By 1893, Aspen had banks, a hospital, a police department, two theaters, an opera home and electric lights.
Waite, an Aspen newspaperman and agitator was propel governor of Colorado on the Democratic Ticket; but in time the boss failed.
Aspen's evolution as a ski resort first flickered in the 1930s when investors conceived of a ski area, but the universal was interrupted by World War II.
The Aspen Skiing Corporation was established in 1946 and the town/city quickly became a well-known resort, hosting the FIS World Championships in 1950.
Aspen was now on the path to becoming an internationally known ski resort and cultural center, home of the Aspen Music Festival and School.
The region would continue to expanded with the evolution of three additional ski areas, Buttermilk (1958), Aspen Highlands (1958), and Snowmass (1967).
In 1977, notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, while in the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen for a pre-trial hearing, jumped from a second-story window and escaped.
He remained no-charge for six days, hiding out on Aspen Mountain, before he was arrested while attempting to drive a stolen car out of the city.
In 1977, Aspen was thoroughly photographed for the Aspen Movie Map universal funded by the U.S.
Aspen inhabitants were concerned about the surroundingal impacts of increased immigration on their community, including concerns such as urban and suburban sprawl, pollution from the older automobiles typically driven by immigrant populations and litter accumulating in the mountain peaks due to increasing population.
This resolution was led by Terry Paulson, an Aspen City Council member, and supported and guided by nationwide groups such as the Carrying Capacity Network, and the Center for Immigration Studies.
The resolution was featured on the site of American Patrol with some level of controversy over whether or not the resolution held ethnic motivations, though Terry Paulson and Aspen people stated there were none, and that this was entirely a controversy over surrounding and overpopulation. Aspen is notable as the smallest radio market tracked by Arbitron, ranked at #302.
Local media in Aspen includes three airways broadcasts: KSNO, KTND, and KSPN; two daily newspapers: The Aspen Times and The Aspen Daily News; three local, lifestyle magazines: Aspen Sojourner, Aspen Magazine and the bi-annual Aspen Peak; one digital magazine, Skollie Magazine's Aspen Edition, as well as one local, live, lifestyle tv channel, Aspen 82.
Aspen is a Home Rule Municipality under Colorado law.
Aspen has turn into a second and third home to many global jet setters.
Aspen was the most expensive place to buy real estate in the US in 2011. Aspen is a mixture of high-end luxury estates and condos intermixed with single-family homes and mobile home parks.
As of March 2011, the lowest-priced single-family home on the market was a trailer for $559,000. As of June 2015, the median listing price for homes or condos for sale in Aspen is $5,081,388 or $897 a sq ft as stated to Trulia. It is not uncommon to see listing prices of the higher end homes reaching the mid-eight figures. In a 2015 survey of U.S.
Ski resort towns, Aspen was listed as having the second most expensive rentals, with a one-bedroom averaging $1,750. The town/city sits along the southeast (upper) end of the Roaring Fork Valley, along the Roaring Fork River, a tributary of the Colorado River about 40 miles (64 km) south of Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
It is surrounded by mountain and wilderness areas on three sides: Red Mountain to the north, Smuggler Mountain to the east, and Aspen Mountain to the south.
Aspen is positioned at 39 11 32 N 106 49 28 W, along State Highway 82.
Under the Koppen climate classification, Aspen has humid continental climate (Koppen: Dfb) owing to its high altitude.
Climate data for Aspen (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1899 present) Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, or RFTA, provides no-charge bus service inside Aspen and Snowmass Village, and pay service to the encircling communities of Basalt, El Jebel, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, and Rifle.
Local RFTA bus service inside Aspen and to Snowmass Village is free.
Aspen's only airport is Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, also known as Sardy Field.
State Highway 82 is the only primary road that provides access to Aspen.
Highway 82 east of Aspen is also impassable due to persistent snow on Independence Pass, leaving Highway 82 west of Aspen as the only means of motor vehicle access amid the winter.
As of 2012, based on data from the 2009 2010 school year, as stated to US News & World Report, Aspen High School, the only high school in the Aspen School District, is the top ranked high school in Colorado and ranked 59th in the United States.
The Winter X Games sports event has been held in Aspen since 2002.
The Gentlemen of Aspen is the small-town rugby team.
The Gentlemen of Aspen won the Rugby Super League a several times: 1997, 2001, 2002.
Aspen Community Church Armory Hall or Fraternal Hall (Aspen City Hall) Silver mines in Aspen, 1898 Aspen has seven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Aspen Skiing Company Aspen Mountain Aspen Center for Physics TV Aspen Aspen dollar, a small-town currency The Slums of Aspen.
Aspen Sojourner Aspen Magazine Skollie Magazine's Aspen Edition "Aspen Named Most Expensive Town in America".
"Aspen Real Estate Overview".
Aspen Daily News.
"General Climate Summary Tables - Aspen 1 SW, Colorado".
"General Climate Summary Tables - Aspen Colorado".
"Bike sharing comes to Aspen | Aspen - Times.com".
The Aspen Times.
"Aspen High School Overview".
"Aspen adds Abetone, Italy as seventh Sister City".
Aspen Times.
"Aspen Sister Cities".
City of Aspen, Colorado Website.
"Aspen Sister Cities".
Music in the Mountains: The First Fifty Years of the Aspen Music Festival Johnson Books, 2001, ISBN 1-55566-311-7 Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town 1879 1893 Oxford University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-19-505428-8 Aspen on the Roaring Fork, Sundance Publication, hardcover, ISBN 0-913582-15-8 (earlier editions exist), Wentworth lived in Aspen (1866 1942), Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aspen, Colorado.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Aspen.
City of Aspen website CDOT map of the City of Aspen Aspen Ski & Snow Report Aspen Chamber of Commerce
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