Local and regional partners spent nearly a decade planning the new mountain bike trail system that opened in San Juan County on September 11, 2026. The public trail network serves high school racers, families, recreational riders and adaptive cyclists.
(The Center Square) - The Colorado River’s Upper Basin states are not required to make mandatory water cuts that the federal government imposed on the Lower Basin.
(The Center Square) - Democratic and Republican leaders across the Lower Basin have opposed the U.S. Department of Interior’s water reduction plan for the Colorado River, while Upper Basin states have widely backed the move.
(The Center Square) - Multi-year plans for how states will reduce Colorado River water intake could be nearing an agreement, with a federal plan expected to be released in the coming week.
(The Center Square) - A federal water distribution and management plan may come out soon regarding the Colorado River, a University of Colorado at Boulder water official told The Center Square.
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to weigh in on the latest water squabble in the West, where Nebraska has accused Colorado of violating a century-old water rights agreement.
Vince Welch, author of “The Last Voyageur,” will speak Tuesday, at 7 p.m. at Columbia Center for the Arts. The biography focuses on Amos Burg, one of the first commercial river guides, the last known individual to run all the major western rivers (Columbia, Snake, Yellowstone, Missouri, Mississippi, Yukon, Canada’s Mackenzie, Green and Colorado, Middle Fork and Main Salmon) before dams made such voyages difficult if not impossible.