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Historic Trails Inform New Route to Connect Carbondale and Crested Butte

 

A plan is being proposed to link a trail between Carbondale to Crested Butte. Last night at the Carbondale Firehouse, Dale Will, with Pitkin County Open Space and Trails, along with Bill Kight of the Glenwood Springs Historical Society and Native American Kenny Frost of the Southern Ute Tribe presented a retrospective on early travel routes in the Crystal Valley. The slideshow of historic photographs and maps will be posted at this address.

 

Open houses about the trail are scheduled Sept. 6th at the Redstone Inn and Sept. 7th at the Carbondale Firehouse, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

 

Raleigh Burleigh was raised in the historic floodplanes of Satank. The Carbondale Rotary Club sponsored him as a youth ambassador to Chile the year before his graduation from Roaring Fork High School. He studied International Affairs and Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder then applied those studies traveling throughout South America the following year. Returning to Carbondale thereafter, Raleigh acquired an internship with KDNK News which led to the opportunity to serve as News Director from 2017 to 2019. After another trip to South America in early 2019, Raleigh Burleigh drew deeper into the confluence as Program Director at KDNK. Raleigh now serves on KDNK's board of directors and as editor of Carbondale's weekly newspaper, The Sopris Sun.