Snowmass history: “Steam Train Suggested as Transit System Here”
System would have cost millions to connect Aspen, Snowmass by train
“An old fashioned steam train, long considered as a means of bringing vacationists from Glenwood Springs to Aspen, has been suggested as the basic public transit system to serve Aspen and Snowmass from a transportation center at the airport,” reported The Aspen Times on Dec. 16, 1971. “It has also been suggested that the transit system be extended by cog railways, possibly up Aspen Mountain several miles behind the Sundeck and on Burnt Mountain in the Owl Creek area, as is done at resorts in the Alps.”
While none of these ideas came to pass, a report on the system estimated it would cost between $3 million and $4 million to lay tracks from Aspen to Snowmass via the airport.
Snowmass Town Council hesitant of affordable housing project scale as talks of new developments begin
Some members of the Snowmass Village Town Council want to see a scaled down design of the Draw Site workforce housing development, especially as the town approved a $12.5 million purchase of property at the Snowmass Center, which the town will use to develop workforce housing.
