Silverton News

Share + Nov 7, 2009 1:00 am US/Mountain JOHN PEEL, The Durango Herald DURANGO, Colo.

Mountain Boy Sledworks has been making handcrafted sleds in Silverton, Colorado, for seven years.

SILVERTON a ' The Colorado Division of Wildlife is seeking information about a lynx that was illegally killed near Silverton within the last two weeks.

Durango, Colorado was founded by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 1880. On August 5, 1881, the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad arrived in Durango.

Here are five ways you and your family can enjoy some spirited fun. 1. Durango, Colo Through October, board the historic Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in search of the Great Pumpkin.

The ski patrol at Silverton, Colo., made first tracks this week while doing some pre-season work.

VIEW SLIDESHOW FALL COLORS SPECIAL SECTION DURANGO - A drive along Highway 550 in Southwestern Colorado might be one of the most beautiful trips in the world during the fall.

Globe Trekker Holly Morris discovers a land of cowboys and old mining towns, a land that time forgot, a place where people fleeing religious persecution found their promised land and outlaws became legends... Welcome to Colorado and Utah! NATURE Supersize Crocs Today, giant crocs are very, very rare, but some of them are still out there in the ...

Wearing a jacket and ski cap inside Silverton's school didn't seem to be much fun for Ellie Gober last winter.

Saturday September 19, 2009 at 10:07 AM. Sale will be held at the Train Stop 229 E. 12th St Silverton, CO.

Work begins today on the Colorado Department of Transportation project to replace the Mineral Creek Bridge on US 550 just south of Silverton.

Nature photographers can be found in secluded places. The Ouray County Historical Society and Museum recently awarded its top three places to nature photographers during its annual contest, which this year was named, "San Juan Memories." All of this year's photographs were taken somewhere in the San Juan Mountain range.

Family YAHOO! Family Trains on their brains Charles G. Anderson Sr. Special to the Reporter-News Sunday, August 23, 2009 Silverton and Durango train in Colorado.

The latest round of musical chairs in the Colorado Legislature found civil engineer Bruce Whitehead in the Senate District 6 seat formerly filled by Jim Isgar.

Rick Spitzer is the author of "Colorado Mountain Passes: the States Most Accessible High Country Roadways," which is for sale at The Bookworm of Edwards for $21.95. Parts of the book will be serialized in the Vail Daily every Sunday this summer.

High in the San Juan Mountains, on a century-old mining claim dubbed "Last Chance," Chris Blatter plans to do something nobody has been able to do legally in Colorado's statehood.

High in the San Juan Mountains, on a century-old mining claim dubbed "Last Chance," Chris Blatter plans to do something nobody has been able to do legally in Colorado's statehood.

I can't stand the color and it really doesn't look good on me. My big fashion influence... was my grandmother.

Brainstorm Internet will submit an application next month to the National Telecommunications and Information Association, or NTIA, for grant moneys between $4.5 and $5 million to fund projects that could bring broadband service to many underserved and unserved areas of Southwest Colorado and northern San Juan County, New Mexico, according to ...

A Novel Idea bookstore at the Mesa County Libraries Central Branch, 530 Grand Ave., will have a book sale Aug.