The people of Crested Butte pride themselves as being “Green”. We’re more in tune with our environment because we’re outside more, whether hiking, biking, skiing, or just taking it all in. We view the great outdoors as our home, not someplace, as Woody Allen said, “that you have to go through to get to your taxi.”
We enjoy riding our bikes and walking through town in all of our special weather. We have an Office of Resource Efficiency (ORE). We have bike racks everywhere. (Count the bikes at the Eldo on a Friday night.) We have the “Towny Takeover”. Our town buses are subsidized to provide free transportation.
Our town has long taken the enlightened position that more and better roadways don’t solve traffic problems; they just create more traffic.
Historically, we have used this argument to oppose county & state projects such as adding lanes to highway 135, and the paving of Kebler Pass and Cottonwood Pass. We have used a pedestrian bridge to cross Coal Creek on Butte Avenue rather than a vehicular one to improve the quality of life in one of our neighborhoods. We have even ripped out a section of Whiterock Ave through the existing town park in spite of the fact it was a major east/west access from the east side of town and created a 4-block area without a cross street.
Even those most affected at the time now appreciate it as beneficial to everyone. |
MISSION:
To protect existing open spaces and develop new open spaces within Crested Butte. To improve the quality and safety of pedestrian circulation and alternative transportation in our community.
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2008 Fundraising events May Mudfest: May 15 - Stop by the Verzuh Rotary Park for a slippery good time! All the Cresetd Butte town council will be present for a Mud Throw-down! Kind of like a Softball-water-tank-dunk, the Council Throw-down will allow you to test your skills in a one-on-one mud fight. Ever want to make a real mud pie? The Chef from Timberline will be present to explain the finer details.
2007 Fundraising events 
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Crested Butte has long supported the protection of open spaces beyond the city limits; we believe it should be the same priority within the town. While it is very important to have the undeveloped areas outside of our town, it is even more valuable to have them within the community where they are accessible to us every day. We need to create beautiful, safe walkways along all the major parts of town to make walking the experience it should be. We don’t need to implement Draconian measures such as banning cars in town or issuing “campus parking passes” to locals to achieve this. We simply need to favor pedestrian solutions over vehicular ones. Working with our town representatives and staff, we need to do everything we can to make walking easier and driving less seductive. Given our town’s pride in being “Green”, we think that making these concepts part of the town’s master plan will reduce our traffic problems while improving our quality of life.