Aspen Trails Metropolitan District

10/25/2025

Event for the kids!

09/16/2025

A message from Bear Smart Durango: As an incentive to establish service or upgrade existing service, members of the La Plata County Bear Working Group are offering a $100 rebate for county residents to obtain a residential bear-resistant trash can for your home, business or short term rental.

Visit bearsmartdurango.org for more information or to request a rebate for obtaining a bear-resistant trash can from a local waste hauler servicing county residents.

This rebate program is available to county residents only and expires 12/31/2026.

Bear Smart Durango helps reduce bear/human conflicts in the Durango Colorado area

08/15/2025

Fire just reported south east of Vallecito. Forest Lakes subdivision on pre-evacuation notice. Air support already on the scene.

08/11/2025

FYI - Upper Pine confirmed the Stoner Mesa fire is the cause of the local smoke with over 3k acres burned and 0% containment.

07/15/2025

UPDATE: The key has been returned and both boards are looking into a better solution.

There is currently NO EMERGENCY ACCESS between Aspen Trails and Los Ranchitos.

07/10/2025

Hey Mr Wampner, can you please break down your box and put it inside the dumpster next and every time? You’re welcome, Eric Emerson.

06/30/2025

FYI - this guy wandered through last night around 9:30pm. - Eric

06/19/2025

Neighbors, please be aware that much of our surrounding public lands may soon be for sale.

This is a follow up to yesterday's post about the large scale sell-off of Public Lands currently contemplated by the current administration and Republicans in the US Senate. Here is an interactive map to see what lands are on the sell-off list meaning they could potentially be sold and used, for example, for high-end homes, STRS, hotels, golf courses and on and on: https://wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=821970f0212d46d7aa854718aac42310

There are 1,000s of acres that are on the sell-off list in and around Durango and throughout La Plata County (see screen shot and go to the map). Below is a release from the The Mountain Pact, a group that does their research. In the comments are resources to fight this....

1. Public Lands Sell-off in Budget Reconciliation - The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," which is currently before the Senate, includes a provision to sell off up to 3 million acres of national public lands in states across the West. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chair U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) inserted the provision into the budget reconciliation bill on Wednesday night. Chairman Lee wants to mandate the sell-off of between 2 million and 3 million acres of public lands across 11 western states (UT, AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, NV, NM, OR, WA, WY). His legislative text would target both Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service land.

There is no requirement that any housing built in response to this bill be affordable or meet any affordable housing requirements. There is no provision to prevent lands sold under Lee’s bill from being developed into high-end vacation homes, Airbnbs, or luxury housing projects. After 10 years, privatized lands would face no building or use restrictions whatsoever, allowing them to be repurposed for uses other than housing, such as golf courses, resorts or industrial development.

The House stripped a proposed sale of public lands from their version of the bill, which was inserted as an amendment from Reps. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) and Celeste Maloy (R-Utah) and would have sold off roughly 500,000 acres in Nevada and Utah — a fraction of Lee’s proposed sales.