Aspen in the Roaring Fork Valley

11 December 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Downtown Aspen © Matthew Trump/cc-by-sa-3.0

Downtown Aspen © Matthew Trump/cc-by-sa-3.0

Aspen is a city in and the county seat of Pitkin County, Colorado, with 6,700 permanent residents. It is situated in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains’ Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains, along the Roaring Fork River at an elevation just below 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above sea level on the Western Slope, 11 miles (18 km) west of the Continental Divide.   read more…

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