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It's Not the Fine Arts Guild's Fault

The real reason the Labor Day art show in Bond Park keeps catching rain, and it isn't who you think.

Estes Park's second mayor sold eggs, candy and camera film

And made some of the first color photographs of the American West.

Tonight: the darkest Perseids in years

Best window is midnight to 4 a.m. Here is the plan, plus the dome behind the high school.

He almost owned your view

He couldn't legally own a single acre.

Latest Articles

Recent posts & guides from around CO.

A Chamber of Commerce Guy Started This With Four Families and a Picnic

The Chamber of Commerce president who started the Longs Peak Scottish Irish Highland Festival in Estes Park in 1976, and its 50th anniversary weekend.

It's Not the Fine Arts Guild's Fault

Buck Timber explains why the Estes Park Labor Day Arts & Crafts Show catches rain so often, corrects a decades-old mix-up with the Fine Arts Guild, and breaks down Colorado's monsoon pattern.

Fred Payne Clatworthy: The Man Who Could Not Photograph What He Saw

In 1898 he wrote that Colorado was the most brilliant colored carpet he had ever seen. He spent the next sixteen years figuring out how to photograph it.

The Dome That Runs on Garage Door Openers

How a quirky, low-tech fix keeps one iconic dome opening—and engineers amazed.

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