A site built for the Western Slope

Finding out what is actually going on in western Colorado is harder than it should be.

A county posts an evacuation notice to Facebook at nine at night. A town buries next week’s agenda in a PDF three clicks down. The forecast on your phone is for Grand Junction when you are standing in Paonia. Somebody knows the road is out and there is nowhere to say so.

None of it is hidden on purpose. There are a lot of small towns across western Colorado and not many people whose job it is to keep track of them all, so what you need ends up scattered over a dozen feeds and a few logins, and everybody works around it.

So we put it in one place, for the towns from Steamboat down to Durango. We carry alerts and agendas, the forecast for the town you are in rather than the region, what the gauge on the river is reading, who is playing Friday, which places are open when the power goes out. People who live here use us and so do people driving over for the weekend. If we get something wrong, tell us and we will fix it.