Snowmass Village history: Brush Creek Road paved with good intentions

From Travis Edmonson’ epic poem, printed in part in The Snowmass Villager in September 1968:

“It’s the road! The blasted, pitted, pot-holed, choking, slimy, joltin’ road! I know there’s two go through! Both come off of eighty-two! I’d stay off if I was you!

So here’s the road

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The river’s tossing down below

The shale cliffs that rise

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To the sloping highland meadows

Where the Rockies hold the skies

‘Snowmass-at-Aspen.’ There’s the sign.

Here’s where we make our turn

To follow Little Creek from eighty-two

Up to Big Burn …”