A letter from a local
Sopris watches. The valley provides.
Mount Sopris rises 6,000 feet straight off the valley floor south of town — the most commanding single mountain view in Colorado, and the daily backdrop to Main Street's galleries and the farmers market. The Crown's singletrack at Prince Creek is ten minutes out the Crystal River road.
The Roaring Fork and Crystal hold gold-medal trout water in both directions, Sunlight's cheap lifts spin thirty minutes away, and the Rio Grande Trail runs car-free to Aspen when you want the big-resort day without the parking. Penny Hot Springs steams riverside twenty minutes up-valley.
Carbondale is the Roaring Fork's soul town — ranchers, artists, climbers, first Fridays. Aspen's glitter is 30 miles and one entire worldview away.
— Mona