Snowmass history: Owl Creek
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“Plan approved to ease Owl Creek dust” informed The Aspen Times May 25, 1967. “Pitkin County Commissioners said last Thursday that the county and Snowmass-at-Aspen developers will do something to alleviate the dust problem on the Owl Creek road [sic] which leads to the new resort. They indicated that the route would probably be oiled. Commissioners took the action after hearing Mrs. Jens Christiansen and Mrs. Lada Vrany report that construction trucks going to and from the development were causing a major dust problem. This means that both approaches to Snowmass, Owl Creek, and Brush Creek, will receive attention. The Brush Creek road [sic] is now being widened and straightened in a cooperative venture in which the county, Aspen Ski Corp. and Snowmass-at-Aspen are participating. Plans call for a hard gravel base on the route this year. Paving is not scheduled until 1968.”
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