Crested Butte, Colorado This article is about the Town of Crested Butte, Colorado.
Town of Crested Butte, Colorado Crested Butte - the town and mountain Crested Butte - the town and mountain Location in Gunnison County and the State of Colorado Location in Gunnison County and the State of Colorado Crested Butte is a home rule municipality in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
The town populace was 1,487 at the 2010 United States Census. The former coal quarrying town is now called "the last great Colorado ski town". Crested Butte is a destination for skiing, mountain biking, and a range of other outside activities.
The Colorado General Assembly has designated Crested Butte the Wildflower Capital of Colorado. The East River Valley where Crested Butte is positioned was once used as a summer residence by the Ute citizens .
Crested Butte, however, was in a better position to survive because it served as a supply town to the encircling area.
Another trade that served to support Crested Butte was ranching.
The town did not revive until a ski region was assembled on Crested Butte Mountain in the 1960s.
From the 1960s to 1990, the Crested Butte enhance school only facilitated K-5 students, while 6th undertaking and higher attended school in Gunnison.
In 1990 Crested Butte offered middle school in the barns depot building.
Finally in 1997, a new facility for the Crested Butte Community School was completed.
In 1993 the Crested Butte Academy opened in Crested Butte, bringing a private high school into town.
Since the 1970s, a several companies have attempted to mine molybdenum on Mount Emmons (called the "Red Lady") near Crested Butte.
In 1977 W Mitchell was propel mayor of Crested Butte and led a campaign which stopped AMAX (now Freeport-Mc - Mo - Ran) from building a billion-dollar molybdenum mine on Mount Emmons.
To acquire an interest in the Mount Emmons molybdenum project. Although US Energy continued to maintain its commitment to moving the universal forward on its own behalf, the withdrawal of Thomson Creek Metals was heralded as a primary victory in the town of Crested Butte in its battle against the proposed molybdenum mine. Crested Butte Mountain Resort The major winter activeness in Crested Butte is skiing or snowboarding at close-by Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Mount Crested Butte.
The mountain, Crested Butte, rises to 12,162 feet (3,707 m) above sea level.
The large amount of extreme skiing terrain at Crested Butte has thriving the US Extreme Skiing Championships and the X Games.
The longest run on Mount Crested Butte is 2.6 miles (4.2 km).
The town of Crested Butte itself has a Nordic Center which has an ice skating rink as well as many miles of groomed cross-country skiing trails.
Crested Butte in summer Crested Butte is one of the locations that claims to have created the sport of mountain biking.
The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame used to be positioned in Crested Butte before moving to Fairfax, California, in 2014.
Other prominent summer activities in Crested Butte include hiking, backpacking, modern climbing, whitewater rafting and kayaking, four wheeling, disc golf, and fishing.
Crested Butte hosts a number of unique celebrations and parades throughout the year.
These include Torchlight, New Years, Winter Carnival, Butte Bash College Ski Week and Mardi Gras amid the winter months; Extreme Board Fest, Slushuck and Flauschink amid spring; the Crested Butte Bike Week, Crested Butte Music Festival, Crested Butte International Film Festival, 4th of July, the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival, Alpenglow Concert Series, Festival of the Arts and Ball Bash amid summer; and Fall Fest, Vinotok and Paragon Peoples' Fair amid fall.
Crested Butte is positioned in north-central Gunnison County on the west side of the valley of the Slate River, along Coal Creek.
Colorado State Highway 135 runs south from Crested Butte 27 miles (43 km) to Gunnison, the county seat.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town of Crested Butte has a total region of 0.85 square miles (2.2 km2), all of it land. Crested Butte lies at an altitude of 8,885 feet (2,708 m) above sea level. Crested Butte is served by the Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport in Gunnison.
The town from a chairlift at Crested Butte Mountain Resort Climate data for Crested Butte, Colorado (Elevation 8,885ft) Crested Butte was the setting and chief recording locale for the Walt Disney ski movie Snowball Express starring Dean Jones and Harry Morgan.
1970s musicians Brewer & Shipley wrote and performed a song called "Crested Butte" dedicated to the town.
Crested Butte is the place of birth and hometown of Heidi Montag of MTV's The Hills.
Crested Butte was the site for other films in the 1970s, including Snowbeast (1977), The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1978), and Mountain Family Robinson (1979), and Ink (2009). James Cameron's movie Avatar has very tangible alongsides to Crested Butte with regard to both quarrying issues and surroundingal coexistence.
One of the citizens who led the fight against the proposed molybdenum mine on Mount Emmons in the late 1970s, former mayor W Mitchell, uses a wheelchair, just like the protagonist in Cameron's film. James Cameron has spent a lot of time at his wife Suzy Amis's cabin in Crested Butte. "CRESTED BUTTE" is given as the destination of the bus in which Dallas Howard arrives at Gunnison at the beginning of the movie.
In 2014, Powder Magazine's "Ski Town Throw Down" voted Crested Butte as the number 1 ski town in the United States. Crested Butte Crested Butte Film Festival Crested Butte Mountain Resort State of Colorado, Department of Personnel & Administration, Colorado State Archives.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Crested Butte town, Colorado".
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The Crested Butte News (2008-07-09).
Geological Survey Crested Butte CO 7.5 minute topographic map Climate Summary for Crested Butte, Colorado "Husted: "Avatar" sounds like a veiled tale of Crested Butte's battle".
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