Telluride and the surrounding area have featured prominently in pop culture.

Meanwhile ski area founder Joe Zoline worked hard to put Telluride on the map, developing one of the best mountains in North America for expert skiers and creating infrastructure for tourism which respected Telluride's need to stay small and beautiful.

In 1978, a stake of the ski area was purchased by Ron Allred and his partner Jim Wells to form the Telluride Company.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

Mining operators in the San Juan mountain area of Colorado formed the San Juan District Mining Association ( SJDMA ) in 1903, as a direct result of a Western Federation of Miners proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight hour day, which had been approved in a referendum by 72 percent of Colorado voters.

The development of the area was spurred by the discovery of large silver deposits near Rico in 1879, and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad was constructed through the County to connect Durango, Telluride, and Ridgway in 1890-92 The RGS served the eastern end of Dolores County until 1952 when it was abandoned.

They were married on December 22, 1994, in Telluride, Colorado near the area where they were both in a helicopter crash in March 1994.

Telluride Regional Airport covers an area of and has one runway designated 9 / 27 which measures.

In addition to all this, touch and go landings are prohibited at TEX, and the minimum traffic pattern altitude for the Telluride area is MSL ( AGL ).

He subsequently gave away his excess fortune ( e. g., opening a homeless shelter in Charlottesville, Virginia and making a key donation to Telluride, Colorado's effort to set aside a natural area at the town's entrance ), reoriented and simplified his life, sold his Los Angeles mansion and moved into a trailer park – albeit the exclusive Paradise Cove park in Malibu.

The first long distance alternating current power line was constructed over Imogene Pass to carry power from the Telluride area to the Camp Bird Mine.

The San Juans are extremely steep ; only Telluride has made the transition to a major ski resort.

The low point of the community came in 1974 with an estimated population of 45 ; since then the town has become a bedroom community for Telluride and has limited tourism and subdivisions ; the population has rebounded to almost 300.

A think-tank of international academics meet annually in Telluride, Colorado to address this issue directly, and until recently, Mark Tilden has been part of this effort ( he had to withdraw due to his new commercial commitments with Wow-Wee toys ).

The film has not been released in the United States since its initial showing at the Telluride Film Festival in 2002.

It is widely regarded as the highest in-bounds skiable terrain in North America, but the Telluride resort boasts Palmyra Peak () and Silverton Mountain has terrain up to.

Leigh has received three separate career tributes — at the Telluride Film Festival in 1993, a special award for her contribution to independent cinema from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2002, and a week-long retrospective showing of her film work held by the American Cinematheque at Los Angeles ' Egyptian Theatre in 2001.

Nunn's first installation, a hydroelectric plant, was built in Telluride, Colorado, and has recently been restored.

As director, producer and executive producer, Wall has personally won three BAFTA awards, three Royal Television Society awards, the Prix Italia, an International Emmy and the Special Medallion at Telluride.

" Kenneth Turan, film critic of the Los Angeles Times, sums up the positions in his chapter on the festival in his book From Sundance to Sarajevo by saying that " the hothouse filmocentric universe Telluride creates over a Labor Day weekend has always been more a religion than anything as ordinary as a festival, complete with messianic believers and agnostic scoffers.

Since then the band has performed at such major music festivals as CMC ( Country Music Channel ) Rocks the Snowys in Thredbo, Australia ( 2009 ), Bonnaroo ( 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2011 ), Telluride Bluegrass Festival ( 2005 and 2011 ), Coachella, All Good Music Festival ( 2010 ), and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival ( 2003, 2004, and 2009 ).

Though the band has played in traditionally country venues and festivals all over the United States ( such as the Telluride Music Festival and Nashville, TN ) their music draws from various influences such as bluegrass and rock as well.

In early 2010, a new Morris documentary had been submitted to several film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Telluride Film Festival.

Also in 2010, Herzog's documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, which portrays the life of an indigenous tribe from the Siberian part of the Taiga, had its premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival.

He had his 1st world cup podium in that discipline in Feb. 2009 at Sunday River Maine, and again in Dec. 2009 in Telluride, CO.

The new owners expanded the infrastructure which Zoline had put into place by adding a gondola connecting Telluride with the Mountain Village.

By the mid-1990s, Telluride had shed both its mining personality and drug image to establish itself as a premier resort town balancing modern culture with fascinating western history.

Although the courts eventually acquitted all union members charged with the bombing of the railroad station during the 1903-04 strike and awarded damages to those who had been deported, the strike and the union were broken in Cripple Creek ; similar measures were resorted to in Telluride, Colorado.

Fear and Desire had its first retrospective screening at the 1993 Telluride Film Festival.

Flak magazine editor Stephen Himes, after watching Scarborough Country and reviewing a transcript of the Telluride debate, wrote that Hitchens had misconstrued Moore's remarks: " Hitchens actually performs some Clintonian semantic gymnastics here.

Among the festival staff, the Opera House is known as the " spiritual home " of the festival, and from 1974 to 1990, all of the posters had, at the bottom, the dates of the festival, along with " Sheridan Opera House " and " Telluride, Colorado.

Within a week they had manager Brian Ross on board, who sent their demo out to several festival promoters ... quickly landing them a slot at the prestigious Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

A view of a mountain while driving above Telluride on one of its many trails.

The Telluride Historic District, which includes a significant portion of the town, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also one of Colorado's 20 National Historic Landmarks.

He performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 15, 2008, and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival on June 22, 2008, and for the first time in his career at England's Glastonbury Festival on June 29, 2008.

He continued to work on ranches until 1884, when he moved to Telluride, Colorado, ostensibly to seek work but perhaps to deliver stolen horses to buyers.

Parker, Warner and two of the McCarty Brothers were responsible for the robbery, on June 24, 1889, of the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride in which they stole approximately $ 21, 000, after which they fled to the Robbers Roost, a remote hideout in southeastern Utah.

David Lavender was born and raised on a cattle ranch 20 miles north of Telluride, Colorado, then a fading mining town.

Leftover Salmon marked their unofficial return to the stage with a performance at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival on Sunday, June 24, 2007, as " Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman and Friends.

Shattered Glass premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was shown at the Telluride Film Festival, the Boston Film Festival, the Woodstock Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, and the Austin Film Festival before opening on eight screens in New York City and Los Angeles on October 31, 2003.

" Telluride ," a song originally recorded by Tim McGraw on his 2001 album Set This Circus Down, was released as the album's fifth and final single.

It was also shown at the Moscow Film Festival, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Athens Film Festival before going into theatrical release in the UK on 26 September 2003.

In 1992, Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the guest co-director of the Telluride Film Festival, screened a print of the film at the festival as part of a retrospective on Kalatazov.

Black Bear Road, officially Forest Service Road 648, is a notorious jeep trail that starts from summit of Red Mountain Pass on U. S. Highway 550 ( between Ouray and Silverton ) to Telluride, Colorado.

" Hitchens was subsequently invited to appear on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC talk show, Scarborough Country, at which point a tape recording of his debate with Moore at the Telluride Film Festival in 2002 was replayed.

Telluride is well-situated on the international film festival calendar for this: shortly after the Cannes Film Festival, but just before the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.

Everyday premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3 2012 and will next screen at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012.

Moseley married Malia Rich, a business manager, on March 25, 2006, in Telluride, Colorado.

While a student at USC, he appeared on The New Dating Game, winning a trip to Telluride, Colorado.