John Reiber closed access to his property atop Mounts Democrat and Lincoln along the Decalibron Loop in March over liability concerns. New QR liability waivers will open the peaks but he warns “this is not a true solution.”
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A Colorado program is training the next generation of outdoor innovators
Western Colorado University is becoming an institutional hub for the outdoor recreation industry and the Gunnison River Valley as a hotbed for outdoor businesses
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Consumer focus at Big Gear show in Denver is “the seed” for a new SXSW-style outdoors festival in Colorado
Visit Denver, the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office and Outside, Inc. teaming up at the Big Gear Show as first step toward a possible statewide outdoors festival
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Opinion: Oil and gas are not the only things of value on public lands
Our leasing policies need to consider not only extractive industries, but also outdoor recreation that is diversifying local economies.
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Luis Benitez returns to outdoor recreation political landscape with push for a federal office
Luis Benitez, the first director of Colorado’s outdoor recreation office, has left VF Corp. with a plan to establish a federal recreation office in the Department of Commerce
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Heather Hansman chased ski bum dream through ups and downs of “Powder Days”
Heather Hansman drew on a decade of personal experience and another winter of reporting to craft her book on the history and future of skiing.
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Carman: In ‘America’s playground,’ the rich go skiing and the workers go couch-surfing
Colorado’s housing crisis threatens resort town with worker shortages, but development poses its own challenges
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Colorado’s White River is the country’s busiest national forest, with a $1.6B impact. But can it keep it up?
“The answer here is not another lane on 70,” forest chief Scott Fitzwilliams says as he plans robust community discussions on the future of White River
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Record surge for outdoor recreation economy in 2021 fuels push for legislation, federal office
Colorado’s outdoor recreation industry contributed $11.6 billion in 2021, accounting for 2.7% of the state’s overall economy
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New outdoor trade show to be open to the public as Colorado aims to be “the best state for all things outdoor recreation”
The Big Gear Show will combine with the (e)revolution e-bike trade show in June 2023 for the outdoor industry’s first-ever business-to-business-to-consumer event