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Town of Mt. Crested Butte
The town of Mt. Crested Butte. 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 town of Mt. Crested Butte
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Crested Butte
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Crested Butte.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Crested Butte is a home rule town located in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
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1977
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
In 1977, W Mitchell was elected mayor of Crested Butte and led a campaign which stopped AMAX (now Freeport-McMoRan) from building a billion-dollar molybdenum mine on Mount Emmons.
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ACCESS CHANGES
A route reaches Crested Butte
The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Crested Butte.
This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.
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Mount Crested Butte, Colorado
The town of Mount Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. The mountain is Crested Butte. The ski resort is Crested Butte Mountain Resort. 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 town of Mount Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado. The mountain is Crested Butte. The ski resort is Crested Butte Mountain Resort
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Winter becomes organised
Crested Butte’s lift-served ski area opened in the early 1960s, adding a winter economy to a town shaped first by coal mining and ranching.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Crested Butte is recorded at 38.899° N, 106.967° W. Its catalogue reference reaches 3,708 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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Ledger AOD.US.CRESTED-BUTTE.V00
Town of Mt. Crested Butte
The town of Mt. Crested Butte. 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 town of Mt. Crested Butte
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC0
TODAY
Crested Butte now
The town of Crested Butte has a Nordic centre which has an ice skating rink as well as cross-country skiing trails.
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
Town of Mt. Crested Butte
AOD.US.CRESTED-BUTTE.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC0
Mount Crested Butte, Colorado
AOD.US.CRESTED-BUTTE.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Crested Butte, 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.