Aspen Trails Metropolitan District

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.

02/18/2025

Bridger Hoover’s Boy Scout Troop 538 is hosting a food drive this week to benefit the Durango Food Bank. If you can spare a can/box/package of no-perishable food please drop it in the box at the mailboxes by Friday 2/21. The Troop will also be working the doors at WalMart on Saturday 2/22.

02/18/2025

A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

ASPEN TRAILS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT
1 Trew Creek Drive, Durango, CO 81301 www.aspentrailsmd.com [email protected]
A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF)
$1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-1102(3), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the ASPEN TRAILS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT of LA PLATA County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, three (3) directors will be elected to serve a term of four (4) years and 1 (one) director will be elected to serve a term of 2 (two) years.

Eligible electors of the ASPEN TRAILS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO):
Brad Fuhrman
827 Sierra Drive
Durango, CO 81301
212-444-8617
[email protected]

The DEO is available Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms may be requested by email, phone or in person. The preferred method to request a Self- Nomination and Acceptance form is by phone (during business hours) or email (at any time).

THIS NOTICE WAS ALSO EMAILED OR MAILED DEPENDING ON YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION. IT CAN ALSO BE DOWNLOADED ON THE WEBSITE HOMEPAGE.

Thank you,
ATMD Board

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form is the close of business (5 p.m.) on Friday, February 28, 2025 (not less than 67 days before the election).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the DEO by the close of business (5 p.m.) on Monday, March 3, 2025 (the sixty- fourth day before the election). Applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than the close of business (5 p.m.) on the Tuesday preceding the election, April 29, 2025.
Brad Fuhrman, Designated Election Official
ASPEN TRAILS

01/03/2025

HNY! Mondays and Thursdays are the normal dumpster servicing days but can get changed due to holidays. Not sure what happened to the Monday pickup but it appears to have shifted a bit this week. The next pickup is scheduled for today (Friday, January 3rd) between 11:40am and 2:45pm...appreciate your understanding as this is out of ATMD's control. If the dumpster is full please take your trash back home until there is room or make other arrangements, thank you!
-e

12/30/2024

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! If the dumpster is full please take your trash back home until it has room. Trash service was delayed due to weather last Thursday. And to the ass clown with the new bath tub, you could have at least broken the box down before opening the lid more and just setting your box there, pretty entitled and rude. -Eric

11/03/2024

Anyone know who decided to leave their 2 chairs by the dumpsters? If you know who did please ask them to pick them back up and haul them elsewhere. Ain’t nobody got time for that!

10/26/2024