โSep-18-2016 04:30 PM
โOct-02-2024 10:04 PM
As a business owner in Colorado who would gain from tourism I can positively say, โYOU ARE RIGHTโ! We donโt want you or any tourists here tearing up our trails and running us off the road to get to them. We donโt want your business and we donโt care if you tourists donโt want to visit Colorado. Believe me, if you all decided to vacation somewhere else, Colorado would send you all off with a HUGE SMILE!! Go bother Utah I hear theyโre nice there, unlike us Coloradans who have been beaten into anger and rage against tourists. You all brought it on yourselves. Take your rudeness and aggressive driving habits with you! Byeeee!
โOct-03-2024 05:24 AM
Nice first post, and welcome! Not sure if you are aware but you are responding to a post that's 8 years old. That said, since you have such strong opinions on restricting state travel to locals only, perhaps you'd share your business name so we can make sure to avoid "bothering" you. I mean if you're gonna talk the talk, then walk the walk.
โSep-24-2016 07:50 AM
โSep-24-2016 06:04 AM
Padlin wrote:
It's the same in all tourist areas, too many people with too much time and money for the non shop owning locals. Been like that in the Adirondacks for years. NYC folks buying up town and lake property, driving up taxes and apartment rentals so much the locals have to move to somewhere more affordable.
โSep-24-2016 04:11 AM
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โSep-22-2016 05:54 PM
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โSep-22-2016 05:59 AM
Busskipper wrote:dakasa47 wrote:
I have only been to Colorado once and I never heard the description Front Range. Can someone tell me what that means? It seems like it is a certain area of Colorado?????????
I-25 top to bottom - where the mountains start. Foothills to the Rockies.
Front Range
โSep-21-2016 07:45 PM
dakasa47 wrote:
I have only been to Colorado once and I never heard the description Front Range. Can someone tell me what that means? It seems like it is a certain area of Colorado?????????
โSep-21-2016 06:05 PM
โSep-21-2016 05:44 PM
โSep-21-2016 10:48 AM
4runnerguy wrote:
Don't think I'm blaming out-of-state tourists for this problem. Let me give you another example of how crazy things have gotten in the mountains.
Two or three years ago, we went down to the Front Range for a 4th of July party. As we went by Avon before 10 a.m., we could see all the streets were jammed and the parking lots all full. At Vail, we saw more cars parked on the frontage road than any ski day during the winter. And there was a 1/2 mile line of cars on I-70 at the Vail exit waiting to get off.
At Frisco, we needed a potty break. It took us 45 minutes to go a couple of miles through town. Once past the tunnel, traffic westbound was packed, and by Georgetown, it was slow and go. Once past the Empire Junction (US 40), westbound was stop and go (mostly stopped), and past Idaho Springs, it was at a stabdstill. As we went up Floyd Hill, we saw people out of their cars walking around. Traffic wasn't moving at all until we got down to Evergreen.
So by noon or so, every town along I-70 from Avon to Evergreen was already full and there was 20 miles of I-70 full of cars essentially parked on the highway, trying to get somewhere. I don't know where they were going and once they got there, where they were going to park. Of course the fireworks weren't for hours yet, but when one is stopped walking around on the interstate, you know it's going to be a long day.
Now the vast majority of those people probably originated on the Front Range and there were few RV's in that backup. But with so many people in the Denver area heading to the hills every weekend, you can imagine the impact on the mountain communities.
โSep-21-2016 08:09 AM