To be enough just to put up a little window dressing in front. Now they had to take what the local newspaper called a tourists eye view of their own hometown to consider what kind of landscape and atmosphere would be needed to attract vacationers and to compete with other communities that were trying to do exactly the same thing. So in short, already with this very first stretch of i70 to be built up in the high country we can already see a hint of how largescale postwar Tourist Development was going to change peoples view of the land. The way people related to place and the ways they saw fit to take care of it. So ill dive into the story now sort of a condensed version of the story i tell in vacationland about how tourism came to be in this region. Really, making the high country seem like a great place for a vacation would mean fundamentally changing how most people thought of this region. If that sounds weird to you, because of the ways we think of this region now then keep in mind
Summer has arrived in the Vail Valley, and home sales across the region are on the rise. Local real estate sales were up 25% in May, with 86 homes selling last month compared to 69.
In John LaConte’s article in the June 1 print edition about Gore Creek and Eagle River flows being on pace to peak during GoPro Mountain Games, he writes “at the headwaters of Gore Creek on.