The town is the location of a historic yule marble quarry along the mountains that began operations in the late 19th century and from which the town draws its name.
Marble mtn colorado.
A road less traveled high in the colorado rockies.
Could also be easily ascended from a camp in the meadow by reversing the descent route described above.
Aspen is only an hour to the north and crested butte is 45 miles to the south.
Colorado is full of purple mountain majesties so you may wonder how we can pick just one to feature in the case of today s summit it was a no brainer.
Ranked the 427th highest colorado peak at 13 266 ft marble mountain may not seem like it is especially notable but wait until you see this sangre de cristo range and its many unique.
Sleeps 4 2 bedrooms 2 bathrooms.
The town of marble was first incorporated in 1899.
Marble is 45 minutes south of glenwood springs just off colorado 133 on the west elk loop.
Colorado rockies mountain luxury family compound in marble co near aspen.
Riverfront marble studio apartment on the crystal.
This would be a mostly tundra hike with limited amounts of scree or rubble.
Another alternative would be to hike marble as a round trip from the upper music pass trailhead.
It has been used for the tomb of the unknowns as well as for parts of the lincoln memorial in.
The trailhead for the standard route is the rainbow trailhead and is gained via the south colony road on the east side of the range near westcliffe.
So here s two lost mines near or on marble mountain in south central colorado.
Marble remains a statutory town of the state of colorado today.
Sleeps 10 4 bedrooms 4 bathrooms.