Last winter, Florida-based Jeff Moss and a business partner found themselves at a bed and breakfast in the southern Colorado hamlet of Cuchara. They were in the area scouting properties
Last winter, Florida-based Jeff Moss and a business partner found themselves at a bed and breakfast in the southern Colorado hamlet of Cuchara. They were in the area scouting properties
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. â Dreams are inching closer to reality in a rural southern Colorado community, where a former ski resort sat abandoned until 2017.
That s when Cuchara Mountain Park opened, following a grassroots effort that saw a local foundation acquire private property that was Panadaro Resort in the early 1980s. From U.S. 160, ski runs are still visible on the mountainside â reminders of an ill-fated operation that regularly swapped hands and was plagued by bankruptcy over the span of two decades.
Now the grounds are in the hands of Huerfano County. Sledding and cross-country skiing on a groomed loop have been popular this winter, overseers say, following a busy summer for Cuchara Mountain Park s disc golf and mini golf courses.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Dreams are inching closer to reality in a rural southern Colorado community, where a former ski resort sat abandoned until 2017. That’s when Cuchara Mountain.