This summer has been a long one for many Summit County businesses: Local experts expect this summer’s occupancy and tourism numbers to outpace pre-pandemic levels, and to keep up with the crowds, many owners have.
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Visitors making a ski trip to Colorado’s Summit County this summer will have a new, eco-friendly lodging option that will challenge your perception of the humble shipping container.
The Pad, set on the Blue River in downtown Silverthorne – within 15 miles of several ski areas, including Keystone and Arapahoe Basin – is built from 18 upcycled shipping containers. The property features both communal, hostel-style bunk rooms along with traditional hotel rooms and roomier suites.
Lynne and Rob Baer are the husband-and-wife pair behind what will be Colorado’s first B Corp lodging property.
Two of the COVID-19 testing centers have changed locations in the past few weeks. The Centura Health testing site moved to the Summit County Community and Senior Center, 83 Nancy’s Place in Frisco. The site.
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A partnership between Summit Middle School and the Silverthorne Recreation Center is helping Summit County children learn to swim.
The program, which is funded through the Jefte Flores memorial fund, was created in 2018 in memory of a local teenager who drowned in Green Mountain Reservoir in August 2015 at age 16.
The memorial fund has provided dozens of kids with free swim lessons with the help of Summit Middle School teacher Bethann Huston.
Huston first thought of partnering with the rec center after a conversation she had with one of her students’ mothers, who had a former boyfriend who drowned in a river, leaving her too scared to let her son near the water.
The Breckenridge and Silverthorne town recreation centers are no longer requiring reservations to exercise at the facilities.
The change comes after the Summit County Public Health Department reduced its COVID-19 level to green starting Wednesday, eliminating most capacity restrictions.
Reservations will still be required for fitness classes in Silverthorne. Cardio equipment that has been closed for physical distancing will reopen for use. Silverthorne’s hot tub, steam room and saunas remain closed but will become available once the rec center deems them safe to operate. When they do open, there will be capacity restrictions.
Masks are still required at all times in the Silverthorne facility except while swimming or showering.