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Copper Mountain East Village
The East Village at Copper Mountain, Colorado. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- The East Village at Copper Mountain, Colorado
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Copper Mountain
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Copper Mountain.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Copper Mountain is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Summit County, Colorado, United States.
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1977
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
The naming question was settled by a decision from the Board on Geographic Names, which ruled in favor of "Copper Mountain" in 1977.
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ACCESS CHANGES
A route reaches Copper Mountain
The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Copper Mountain.
This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.
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Copper Mountain Pow Day!
Copper Mountain Pow Day!. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Copper Mountain Pow Day!
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
1976
Winter becomes organised
Copper Mountain hosted the World Cup tour in 1976 with four alpine ski races: slalom and giant slalom for both men and women.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Copper Mountain is recorded at 39.502° N, 106.151° W. Its catalogue reference reaches 3,753 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Open ledger · AOD.US.COPPER-MOUNTAIN.V00 · ORIGINALClose ledger · AOD.US.COPPER-MOUNTAIN.V00
Ledger AOD.US.COPPER-MOUNTAIN.V00
Copper Mountain East Village
The East Village at Copper Mountain, Colorado. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- The East Village at Copper Mountain, Colorado
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
TODAY
Copper Mountain now
The Copper Mountain CDP includes the Copper Mountain Ski Resort and Copper Mountain village.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Copper Mountain East Village
AOD.US.COPPER-MOUNTAIN.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Copper Mountain Pow Day!
AOD.US.COPPER-MOUNTAIN.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Copper Mountain, Colorado overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.