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Monarch Mountain is open. As of Monday, the ski area has more than 30 runs available and all of the lifts are open.

Despite the promise of precipitation this week, the long-term weather forecast for Chaffee County looks bleak, said Eric Petersen, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Pueblo.

By: Kelsey Kernstine OKLAHOMA CITY - Many parents out there know it's going to be a bad day in your house when the dog gets to your child's stuffed animal. Lots of tears and perhaps lots of yelling and screaming. For 9-year-old Zach Yanch who got his stuffed husky after surgery at OU Children’s Hospital from a program called "Puppy Love," and he was devastated to find Stuffy with injuries to both his eyes and nose. "We have the little puppy that has an orbital floor fracture and a contusion to the external jugular that we are going to repair,” Dr. Randy Stroud said.

After extending its 2020-21 season by a week, Monarch Mountain closed its season Sunday, setting a record for visitor numbers despite the coronavirus pandemic. Randy Stroud, Monarch general manager, said in setting its season record, it broke the 200,000 mark for the first time. The pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season was Monarch’s next best year. “I sort of felt we were in position for a good year,” Stroud said, “just by what we saw last summer, with the number of people getting into the outdoors, camping, hiking, etc.” Monarch opened on Nov. 27, the day after Thanksgi...

Past snowstorm allows Monarch Mountain to extend ski season Monarch Ski Area and last updated 2021-03-16 17:16:35-04 SALIDA — Monarch Mountain's ski season will be extended thanks to this past weekend's storm that dumped snow across Colorado, according to a release. Monarch Mountain's ski season is now extended by one week and will wrap up on Sunday, April 11. This area of Colorado saw 2 feet of snow in this most recent storm cycle. “As always, we want to give our guests the most time on the snow that we can possibly give. The weather doesn’t always cooperate with that ideal, ...