ASPEN, Colo. – Celebrity sightings are old news in the place known as “Glitter Gulch.” New this summer and fall were black bear sightings. “The number of nuisance bear calls was the highest it’s been since I moved here 20 years ago,” says Randy Cote, Colorado Department of Wildlife’s Aspen-area district manager, who received more […]
Melissa Coleman
Posted inAugust 17, 1998: Living out the trailer dream
The high end of home economics: Aspen’s trophy home phenomenon
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. ASPEN, Colo. – In 1989, the Denver-based Good Deed Land Co. bought a 10-acre mining claim on Aspen Mountain and offered it for resale at $10 per square inch. An additional $12.50 garnered a T-shirt stating “Aspen Landowner.” Nearly a decade later, a house […]