While some travelers flock south for warm weather to escape the winter, others know that the icy side of winter brings its own unique catalogue of activities that keep the heart warm. Colorado takes ...

My recent getaway to Switzerland was nothing short of spectacular. Wildflower valleys, snow-capped peaks, charming alpine villages — it was easy to become enchanted. The direct flight back to Denver ...

Timmy Foulkes, an ice farmer at the Ouray Ice Park, turns off the shower heads that drench the walls of the Uncompahgre gorge as they try desperately to build ice in Ouray on Dec. 30, 2025. (The ...

If “Go ice climbing” is on your New Year’s resolution list, this is your week: The Ouray Ice Park is 100 percent open, and the seventeenth annual Ouray Ice Festival starts on Thursday. Ouray is a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rescue teams retrieved the body of an ice climber from a southern Colorado mountain early Sunday, according to Ouray officials. The climber, whose identity ...

OURAY, Colo. — A warm winter has delayed the opening of Ouray Ice Park, disrupting a seasonal economic engine for the southwestern Colorado town and forcing organizers, workers and climbers to adapt.

If you're looking for towering mountains, quaint ski town vibes, and warming hot springs, then you need to head to this Colorado spot.

After weeks of planning for the worst, the Ouray Ice Park has ice to offer after all, just in time for the 31st Ice Festival this weekend. Ice Park Executive Director Peter O’Neil has spent the past ...

There is 17,000 vertical feet of rock wall, along one and half miles of canyon, that needs to get covered with ice every year, and it's the job of a four-man crew of ice farmers to grow all the ice.