Lost Gold

When Vail Lost the Olympics

The 1976 Winter Games were supposed to have been held in Vail.

02/03/2026 By Ted Katauskas

Village Talk

Fossil Hunting in an Unlikely Location

The Museum at Dinosaur Junction is located in an Edwards public school.

06/02/2025 By Devon O'Neil

Village Talk

The Magic Kingdom of Vail?

A new book explores Disney’s influence on the ski resort.

12/02/2023 By Amanda M. Faison

Feature

Railroad Row

With Eagle County's mass transit needs growing, and the possiblity of waxy crude inbound from Utah, the stakes in a push to revive the valley’s long-dormant rail line couldn’t be higher.

06/06/2023 By Devon O'Neil

Vibe

Retro Perspective

Half a century after its inception, the Summervail Art Workshop Legacy Project is getting the band back together again.

06/24/2021 By Katie Coakley

History

Ghost Stories: A Look Back at Gilman

Hundreds of ghost towns litter the state of Colorado. In Eagle County, the scattered ruins of Gilman tell the story of the valley's early days as a hub of industry.

10/30/2019 By Kirsten Dobroth

History

Remembering Pepi Gramshammer, A Vail Legend: Aug. 6, 1932 - Aug. 17 2019

Meet the legendary men and women (and one four-legged friend) who inspired the named runs of Vail and Beaver Creek.

02/11/2019 By Devon O'Neil

Person of Interest

A Taste of Old Vail at the Top of Bridge Street

Meet Simone Larese, proprietor of the Blü Cow Café, a Swiss hotdog stand steeped in the spirit of her pioneering parents.

02/11/2019 By Kirsten Dobroth

Village Talk

Beyond the Hall of Fame

Honored with a new exhibit at the state’s snowsports museum, Warren Miller film star Chris Anthony shapes his legacy with a documentary that’s bigger than him—and all of us.

11/12/2018 By Kirsten Dobroth

PERSON OF INTEREST

Remembering Astronaut and Vail Resident Scott Carpenter

A spaceman who was a ski bum at heart, Carpenter passed away in 2013, but remains an iconic figure in Vail history.

09/04/2018 By Ted Katauskas

Longreads

A Time-Traveling Adventure at One of the Last Working Ranches in the Valley

Bair Ranch still herds sheep, but lately it's been tending a more lucrative flock: Tourists seeking adventure.

06/08/2018 By Devon O'Neil Photography by Ryan Dearth

Village Talk

The Colorful History of Skiing's Most Eccentric Means of Downhill Travel

Jonathan Hritz helped pioneer the almost-sport of monoskiing. But nearly 35 years after Vail banned his weird contraption from the Back Bowls, he still doesn’t understand what all the fuss was about.

02/09/2018 By Kirsten Dobroth

Village Talk

A Historic Family Ranch Hits the Market

With the sale of Nottingham Ranch, the scion of the family that homesteaded Beaver Creek and Avon contemplates the end of an era.

02/09/2018 By Devon O'Neil

Pyramid Theme

A Historic Vail Village Home Gets a 21st Century Restoration

A historic A-frame in the heart of Vail Village gets a makeover worthy of the US president and Spanish king who stayed there, and the Texas oilman who built a home that put Vail on the world map.

11/17/2017 By Kirsten Dobroth Photography by Kimberly Gavin

Skiing

Ski Cooper Celebrates 75 Years

Want to ski in the tracks of a 10th Mountain veteran? Skip Riva Ridge and head up the highway to a historic resort where the lifts started turning out soldiers in 1942.

11/17/2017 By Kirsten Dobroth

Local History

Will Camp Hale be the Country's First National Historic Landmark?

If a group of land users, owners, politicians, and locals get their way, the environmental restoration and historical preservation of the Camp Hale area would mark the first such distinction nationally.

05/08/2017 By Allen Best