San Juan Skyway: Marla Croke crosses West Colorado Avenue or Main Street in downtown Telluride loaded with her son s hockey equipment Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005. Croke, who as lived in the Southwestern Colorado town for 15 years, is an architect and lives downtown. She was returning from the Mountain Village, via the free gondola, where her son s hockey team played an exhibition game. Photo by Christian Murdock/The Gazette
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Editor s note: This is the second in a series looking into the state of tourism in Utah following COVID-19. Be sure to read part one.
ST. GEORGE Utah s national parks felt about as vacant as they ever have since they were designated by the federal government as the threat of COVID-19 became more apparent.
Characteristics of the virus were still widely unknown to everyone by the time it hit the U.S. with full force in mid-March last year. The Department of Interior even shut down access to all federal lands for several weeks near the beginning of the pandemic.
For generations, coal has been a constant in this northwestern Colorado city. But by 2030, the Craig Station stacks will go quiet as Colorado shifts to renewable energy.