On Nov. 20, the Gunnison County Planning Commission held a public hearing on a land-use application from Treasure Mountain Ranch, Inc. (TMR), the company that owns significant acreage in and around the historic townsite of Crystal. The application seeks a Minor Impact Land Use Change to consolidate parcels and cluster new development in the Crystal […]
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Letters – Nov. 12, 2025
Correction: Garfield County Public Library District Director Jamie LaRue received a letter of interest for a vacant trustee position in early August, but did not forward it to County Manager Fred Jarman until Oct. 1. Ring the bell The holiday season is rapidly approaching, but these are difficult times for many of our neighbors. It […]
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CVEPA Views: You can’t get there from here
How long does it take to get to Marble? Gus Darien told me that when he was a young man he could hop on the train to Carbondale. The train stopped at his Marble ranch to take on water or maybe coal from Camp Genter Mine and cabbages and raspberries from Clotan Moore’s place above […]
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Forest Service approves Daniel’s Hill parking area
“The Lead King Loop has been a very popular recreation area for a long time,” said Jennifer Schuller, deputy district ranger for the National Forest Service Aspen-Sopris Ranger District. And mitigating that impact has been a challenge.In 2021, the Forest Service, Town of Marble and Gunnison County approached Western Colorado University Center for Public Lands […]
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Jury summons for Marble residents put them between a rock and hard place
For folks living in Marble, being part of Gunnison County is one of life’s little jokes. It is not always important, but every now and then, Marble residents have to face the reality that serving jury duty when called is nearly impossible.There’s an overblown joke that nobody likes jury duty; imagine having to drive several […]
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Eighteen-wheeler attempts four-wheel road
A semi truck hauling a 40-foot trailer shut down the road to the ghost town of Crystal, after becoming stuck at the base of Daniel’s Hill, east of Marble, on Thursday, Aug. 17. Pictures of the truck trickled out on social media, with comments mostly blaming the driver for his reliance on GPS. But, there […]
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CVEPA Views: Marble Airstrip river project challenged
On Aug. 7, the Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association (CVEPA) responded to a citizen complaint about numerous large backhoes and loader(s) in the Crystal River adjacent to the Marble Airstrip along County Road 3 in the upper Crystal Valley. A contractor had essentially dredged several hundred yards of the river into a straight channel. Upon […]
