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VAIL — The sound of barking is everywhere. The loudspeaker blares a combination of music and a series of statistics. “Rivet’s last jump measured in at 26 feet, 11 inches!” At its handler’s command, a fluffy streak tears down a 40-foot dock and launches itself into the air, flying upward of 20 feet into a clear blue pool. This is the DockDogs Big Air competition at the GoPro Mountain Games.

(SPONSORED) — Breckenridge Distillery is the world’s highest distillery and produces one of the most highly awarded craft whiskeys in the U.S. Loving Living Local host Nova got a chance to visit Breckenridge Distillery for the afternoon and meet with Director of Marketing Jessie Unruh, who showed Nova around the facility.

Frisco will kick off a summer of music with a concert on Main Street on Friday, June 9, featuring The Original Wailers, according to a news release from the town. The free concert in front of Frisco Town Hall is intended to benefit the High Country Conservation Center and bring people together after a long winter. The opener, Boostive, takes the stage at 4 p.m. while the main act will take the stage at 6 p.m.

My grandparents, Joe and Bunny, came here from the East Coast the year before Vail Mountain opened. They were both conservationists and loved skiing and the outdoors, so they opened one of the first ski shops, Vail Ski Rentals, at the top of Bridge Street. They also built the first house on Beaver Dam Road and became fast friends with a lot of the other early Vail pioneers.

Vail America Days, the beloved 4th of July celebration, will return to Vail this summer. The event includes the Vail America Days Parade and an evening fireworks display, weather permitting.

When I moved to the Vail Valley from Oregon during the summer of 2010, one of the first and smartest things I did was join Ellen Miller’s trail running group, the Mountain Divas. One or two days a week at dawn, I’d show up at the Vail Athletic Club to rendezvous with Miller and the Divas—typically 10 and sometimes 20 women of all ages—who didn’t seem to mind that I was the only male in the group.

The 21st installment of the GoPro Mountain Games is returning to Vail this weekend, and even after two decades the organizers are still coming up with new and exciting events and activities to keep the public coming back. The event celebrates athletes, art, mountains and music — and, dogs of...

It's the kind of Colorado story that usually does not have a happy ending. This one does, which makes it so special. After 5 weeks, Mike Krugman said he had all but given up hope that his dog, Riley, was going to come home alive. He said the dog simply never came back after he let him out for dinner April 8. "The next morning I got on my snowshoes because we had just had a big dump of snow and started looking and discovered on the south end of the property, the fence wasn't there anymore," Krugman said. He worked with the...

Earlier this year, the proposed studio building for the Art in Public Places Artist in Residency program received preliminary approval from the Vail Town Council, and AIPP coordinator Molly Eppard anticipates that it will debut in the summer of 2024. Located in a flat meadow overlooking Gore Creek in Ford...

Vail Comedy Show has New York City comedian Geoffrey Asmus performing a pair of upcoming comedy shows. On Tuesday June 13 the Comedy Cellar comedian will be at Moe’s Original BBQ in Eagle. On Wednesday June 14 he will be at Shakedown Bar in Vail Village. Geoffrey Asmus went...

Like some of the world’s most-coveted masterpieces, Vail’s first Artist in Residency program has been a work in progress for many years. As envisioned, the residency will serve as a cornerstone for the town’s Art in Public Places Program (AIPP; artinvail.com) by providing a dedicated studio space to attract visiting artists for multiple-week residencies and allow the town to diversify its ever-expanding and evolving public art collection. And while the actual physical studio is still in the final approval process, the program’s first official artist has been selected: Washington state sculptor and painter Squire Broel, who will be visiting Vail as an itinerant resident this summer, touring the valley, meeting other artists, and explaining his work to the community.

As much as the GoPro Mountain Games focuses on athletics, this year’s musical line up is almost bigger than the amount of sweat and elevated heart rates this event produces. The schedule of headliner concerts and musicians playing throughout the village offers multiple days of melodies and that’s music to our ears.

Colorado may not have a Napa Valley, but it does have the Breckenridge Wine Classic. The three-day festival will allow guests to sip wine from more than 300 wineries while enjoying other libations, food, activities, and more. According to a press release, this year's event — one of the highest-altitude...

After being buried by snow for many months, Vail Public Library’s StoryWalk has a new book in time for summer. Kids and their families can now read “Whoever You Are” by Mem Fox (and illustrated by Leslie Staub) in both English and Spanish as they walk around the pond in East Vail’s Bighorn Park.

Two golden eagles were relocated on Tuesday after being captured at Denver International Airport (DIA), according to a Facebook post from the Summit County Sheriff's Office. Golden eagles are large raptors that can be found in Colorado year-round. According to a report by the Summit Daily, the birds were trapped...

When: Monday June 12, 6 p.m. Where: The Bookworm of Edwards, 295 Main St., unit C101 Edwards, CO 81632. More Info: Call 970-926-READ or visit BookwormOfEdwards.com. Summer is just around the corner, which means outdoor adventures with the family and summer reading homework. Luckily, Colorado author Malia Maunakea will be at The Bookworm on Monday, June 12, to talk about her books that are perfect for planning your summer family trips and for your child’s summer reading goals.

New to Breckenridge, Zach Hackett was exploring on the trails on Peak 4 behind his new apartment last month when he heard a single, “Yip.”. If not for that small cry, Hackett probably never would have spotted Riley, a 9-year-old sheltie that somehow survived five weeks through Colorado’s wintry conditions. But there, off trail where Hackett had just happened to wander, the small black-and-white dog sat among the downed trees, emaciated and hardly able to move.

Colorado is one of the top destinations for summer classical festivals in the world. Renowned musicians and audiences flock to the Centennial State for performances in gorgeous spaces. And CPR Classical brings the excitement to you! Turn the radio on and the volume up for concerts, festival history, upcoming events and, of course, unforgettable music! Summerfest 2023 on CPR Classical begins June 15 and runs through August 20.

The following animals are available for adoption at the Summit County Animal Shelter. Call the shelter at 970-668-3230 with questions. The most recent list of animals available for adoption can be found on the shelter’s website. Amora, 1 year 2 months, domestic shorthair, tortoiseshell, spayed female. Amos, 1 year...

In case you're not familiar, the area between Gypsum and Vail, Colorado is widely known by the locals as the Vail Valley. Sure, the most noteworthy thing about this stretch along Interstate 70 is the world-class skiing at Vail and Beaver Creek, but with ski tourism comes all kinds of other accommodations such as hotels, transportation, and restaurants, to name a few.