Page 18 - Flat Tops News Today

The Flat Tops area is home to the 235,214-acre Flat Tops Wilderness — one of the first such designations to be made under the 1964 Wilderness Act.

With a sweet tooth for pristine ecosystems, a big, brown-eyed beaver has taken residency at Hanging Lake. The industrious nocturnal rodent greeted visitors late Sunday afternoon by swimming a rare daylight lap around the emerald-green...

With a sweet tooth for pristine ecosystems, a big, brown-eyed beaver has taken residency at Hanging Lake. The industrious nocturnal rodent greeted visitors late Sunday afternoon by swimming a rare daylight lap around the emerald-green...

In the Eagle River Valley, many of us celebrate our National Forest on a daily or weekly basis. Whether you are outside skiing, hiking, biking, wildlife viewing, hunting or simply enjoying nature, there is a very...

Running event serves as a benefit for 7-year-old Manuela Perez, who is fighting leukemia, and to raise awareness through the Miracles From Maggie Fund.

A pronounced monsoonal trend from the southwest will give the Yampa Valley chances for rain nearly every day this week, though it may not actually bring that much precipitation. Megan Stackhouse, a meteorologist with the...

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch Saturday for the Central Colorado River Basin, and specifically the Flat Tops area above the Grizzly Creek burn scar in Glenwood Canyon. The watch is...

The year is 1898, the state of Colorado is just 21 years young and the West Slope town of Glenwood Springs is looking to grow up from its Wild West days of gambling and gunslingers....

The Garfield County commissioners, at their regular meeting Monday, are slated to consider paying $30,000 for outside legal assistance in their fight against plans to turn Sweetwater Lake into a new state park. Commissioners have...

SWEETWATER — “Don’t look up, OK?” Adrienne Brink is showing off the kitchen of the lodge at Sweetwater Lake Resort. For nearly 40 years she has used the lakeside log cabin with cinder block additions...