1 year ago: Summit Fire & EMS officially opens its new Silverthorne station, Station 10

Silverthorne residents, first responders and other community members gathered June 4, 2025, to celebrate the official opening of Summit Fire & EMS Station 10, located off Colorado Highway 9 and Golden Eagle Road in Silverthorne. Steve Lipsher, the Summit Fire & EMS public information officer, said the station cost around $9.5 million, which was within the amount budgeted. He said the department broke ground on the station in April 2024 and received the certificate of occupancy in April 2025. The station houses a wildfire engine, ambulance and fire engine.

— From the June 7-8, 2025, edition of Summit Daily News

5 years ago: Fires burning in Colorado and Southwest bring haze into Summit County

A smoky, hazy spring day rolled across the county on June 8, 2021, as fires burned across the region. National Weather Service officials attributed the hazy skies to three fires burning in Colorado as well as the fact that prevailing winds in Summit County are blowing in from the Southwest — larger fires were burning in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas at the time. Meteorologists said the wind pattern would likely continue to bring a smoky haze to the region through much of the week. (Smoke from wildfires continued to linger in the region throughout much of the summer.)

— From the June 9, 2021, edition of Summit Daily News

10 years ago: Copper Resort owner Powdr Corporation buys Eldora Mountain Resort

Park City, Utah-based Powdr Corporation, owner of Copper Mountain Resort in addition to seven other ski resorts in the West, announced on June 6, 2016, that it has added Eldora Mountain Resort in Nederland to its portfolio.The adventure lifestyle company, which also owns Woodward camps across the United States and media company Outside Television, sees Eldora as a consequential addition. That, and a strategic complement to Copper Mountain.

— From the June 7, 2016, edition of Summit Daily News

15 years ago: US Forest Service gives initial green light for expansion on Peak 6

A proposed expansion on Peak 6 for Breckenridge Ski Resort got one step closer on June 10, 2011, after the U.S. Forest Service released a draft environmental impact statement, recommending a proposal for 550 acres of new terrain. The plan calls to bring lift-served and hike-to terrain on Peak 6, with an installation of a six-person lift, the construction of a warming hut on top of the mountain and a 150-seat guest building with a restaurant at the lift midpoint. The expansion would add 182 acres of intermediate terrain, 62 advanced-intermediate acres and 163 acres of expert terrain. (Construction on the expansion began in the summer of 2013.)

— From the June 11, 2011, edition of Summit Daily News

30 years ago: Vail Resorts files for a public stock offering with Securities and Exchange Commission

Vail Resorts, the parent company of Vail Associates, filed for public status June 6, 1996, with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a public stock offering. Vail Resorts will offer $75 million of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange, which will be used to pay off the company’s long-term debt totaling $103.7 million. Pat Peeples, the managing director of communications for Vail Associates, said public stock offering is something Vail is used to. She said it was a publicly held company until 1986. The announcement came on the heels of the release of Vail’s record number ski days for the 1995-96 season. The resort recorded skier numbers of 1.65 million this year, up from 1.57 million in 1994-95.

— From the June 9, 1996, edition of Summit Daily News

125 years ago: Gold Pan hosts public reception, proposes to sell power to Breckenridge

The Gold Pan Mining Co. hosted a grand public reception at its new office building on June 11, 1901, and it was said to be “a gorgeous affair in every particular.” The Summit County Journal declared it was the largest public reception ever given in the county, estimating that at least 700 people attended. The Breckenridge brass band and the Lounge’s orchestra provided music throughout the night, and all of the company’s workforce, from the president on down, were present to lavishly dispense lunch, wines and cigars. The new office and its multiplicity of lights at it and its shops and yards was also the first large-scale electrical display seen in the county. The company has proposed to furnish electric light to Breckenridge, which would compete for business with the current Breckenridge Electric Co. (The town council would approve a franchise to the company later that summer.)

— From the June 15, 1901, edition of Summit County Journal