MESA COUNTY • Spencer Christensen is conflicted when he talks about the Grand Mesa. “As a person who likes the Grand Mesa for personal reasons, I want it to be kept secret,” he said. “But as a ...

Christie Aschwanden found herself snowbound in the Skyway parking lot a week and a half ago. She had cross-country skied the network of Skyway’s groomed trails between snow-draped pines and firs on ...

In late July, my wife, Deb, and I drove down from her family’s cabin on the Grand Mesa to Grand Junction, the largest city in Mesa County and in Western Colorado, to pick up supplies we’d forgotten to ...

It peaks at just 11,000 feet, but as the largest flat-topped mountain in the world, and it certainly lives up to its name: Grand Mesa. Broad and wide, Grand Mesa is capped by a layer of uneroded ...

PALISADE, Colo. (CBS4) - The Town of Palisade and its partners recently celebrated the opening of the Palisade Plunge, a singletrack trail that starts at more than 10,700 feet at the top of the Grand ...

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Colorado Mesa’s new athletic director, Rob Courtney, was introduced to the Grand Junction community Friday. The new head of ...