Basalt Mountain has evolved into a playground every bit as popular for the midvalley as Smuggler Mountain is for Aspen.Last Sunday a family with three small kids walked on a trail that skirted an old ...

As the wildfire raced up to the summit of Basalt Mountain in the first weeks of the Lake Christine Fire, it was fueled by decades of dead timber and heavy underbrush. The months-long burn revealed ...

A handful of people ventured onto Basalt Mountain this past week to find a landscape of contrasts with fresh, white snow blanketing slopes covered with thousands of black tree trunks charred by the ...

This is the first in a weekly series profiling the areas proposed by the Hidden Gems campaign for federal wilderness designation. The campaign, led by Carbondale’s Wilderness Workshop, calls for more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A wildfire started at the gun range near Basalt on Tuesday evening and is burning on the lower section of Basalt Mountain and moving uphill, according to ...

Community leaders are putting pen to paperwork this week so residents of the Aspen-Basalt and Mountain Valley mobile home parks can purchase the land under their houses and keep lot rates affordable ...