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Art & design · Roaring Fork · Maroon Bells country
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Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Colorado photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Autumnal view of Rocky Mountain peaks called the Maroon Bells, between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, southwest of Aspen — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- At Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza, residents and visitors enjoy the river of the same name near what was once the site of old gold mines. The building in the distance is the Breckenridge Welcome Center — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Scene in the ski village below the slopes in Vail, Colorado, a town in Eagle County's Vail Pass that did not exist until four years after the founding of the Vail Ski Resort in 1962. As of 2015, Vail Mountain, just 1.5 hours from Denver, was Colorado's largest ski mountain — Carol M. Highsmith. Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Colorado FIPS08. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.