Historic gold specimen from Telluride

Historic Telluride figures prominently in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.

* Telluride National Historic District

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.

Sharp, tetrahedral sphalerite crystals with minor associated chalcopyrite from the Idarado Mine, Telluride, Ouray District, Colorado, USA ( size: 2. 3 × 2. 3 × 1. 2 cm )

There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.

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.

Although gold telluride minerals were never actually found in the mountains near Telluride, the area's mines were rich in zinc, lead, copper, silver, and ores which contained gold in other forms.

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.

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

During the 1980s, Telluride developed a reputation for being " Colorado's best kept secret ", which paradoxically made it one of the more well-known resort communities.

Telluride is mentioned in the song " Smuggler's Blues " by Glenn Frey, and is the subject of and eponymous songs by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1985, Kate Wolf, and Tim McGraw in 2001, which was re-recorded by Josh Gracin in 2008.

Local residents and common visitors, some of which have shown up for The Telluride Film Festival, have included John Denver, Bob Dylan, Daryl Hannah, Diablo Cody, Jerry Seinfeld, Greg Kinnear, Ed Helms, Nicolas Cage, P! nk, Jason Schwartzman, Sean Penn, Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise.

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.

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

In 1993, he founded, together with Rodney Douglas and Terrence Sejnowski, the Neuromorphic Engineering Summer School in Telluride, Colorado, which remains ongoing.

" 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.

In addition to all of the ski shops in the Vail Resorts portfolio of ski areas, the SSV chain of stores includes Bicycle Village in Denver, Colorado Ski & Golf, Boulder Ski Deals, Aspen Sports, Telluride Sports and Mountain Sports Outlet in Summit County and Glenwood Springs and many others.

* Independent films: In the US, Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Austin's South by Southwest, New York City's Tribeca Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival are all considered significant festivals for independent film.

The town of Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U. S. state of Colorado.

The eastern portion of the county is served by CO 145 connecting to Dolores, CO, and Telluride, CO.

The town of Telluride sits in the valley.

From the west, Colorado Route 145 is the most common way into Telluride, however there are two alternate passes to enter the town as well.

The town is served by air transportation via Telluride Regional Airport ( TEX ), the highest altitude commercial airport in the United States.

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.

The bus system, called Galloping Goose, makes a complete loop around the town and the Gondola links Telluride with Mountain Village.

Originally a mining town, Telluride now is known for its ski resort, Telluride 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.

Rico is developing in many ways as a bedroom community for the much wealthier town of Telluride in San Miguel County to the north.

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

Telluride Regional Airport is a public use airport located five nautical miles ( 9 km ) west of the central business district of Telluride, a town in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

The association is named after the town of Telluride, Colorado where L. L.

The Telluride Film Festival was started in 1974 by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy, and James Card and the Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities in the town of Telluride, Colorado, United States.

It is southwest of the town of Telluride and is named for a prominent rock formation that is said to look like a lizard's head.

A spur road heads off to the old mining town turned ski resort of Telluride.

From Telluride, the road takes off north of downtown and climbs past the ghost town of Tomboy through Savage Basin to the summit.

Telluride is located at an elevation of 8, 750 feet in an isolated spot in Southwest Colorado.

Telluride boasts of a free box that is well supported by the community.

Beyond the ski lifts, Telluride is now widely recognized as an all-season resort.

Telluride Ski Resort is definitely the main attraction in the winter.

Telluride is served by Telluride Regional Airport.

Free public transportation is provided in Telluride.

Telluride was the subject of an essay by Edward Abbey, and Modern Telluride is the setting of Raymond H. Ring's 1988 detective novel Telluride Smile.

They seem to have chosen this name at least in part because of the theory that " Telluride " is itself a contraction of " To Hell You Ride ".

The county seat is Telluride.

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.