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Deep powder and cozy nightlife await in Crested Butte whether you are hitting the slopes or not.

Crested Butte Winter With No Lifts

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Get out in front of backcountry danger this winter, and keep safety top-of-mind! Seek education and training prior to heading out, or utilize a professional guide or a seasoned mentor to explore Colorado's backcountry. <a href="https://www.colorado.com/WinterBackcountrySafety">Find more ways to get informed and stay safe in Colorado</a>.

Backcountry Safety

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There are special places and unique vistas around nearly every Colorado corner. You can help ensure these places exist for generations to come by staying on roads and trails, keeping speeds in check, leaving campsites and picnic spots just as you found them, and following instructional signs while you’re out and about in our state.

Travel Like a Local

At Big Al's Bike Shop we provide a full service bike shop with bike rentals, sales, service, and gear. Ride the newest bike rental fleet in Crested Butte.

Big Al's Bicycle Heaven

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Have Big Al's team outfit you with a fat bike to take on winter trails after lunch.

Get the Gear

Pick up a sack lunch and head out for a mountain biking for fat biking adventure in Crested Butte.

Clark's Market

Groomed 10-feet wide, there may be a divider in the middle, but the Cement Creek drainage is a great example of shared use and user harmony.

Fat Bike Cement Creek Trail 

Skillet-fried chicken and grilled steak dinners served family style in the historic Slogar Building. Complete dinners, modest prices, and great service.

The Slogar Bar & Restaurant

Montanya Distillers is a Colorado craft distiller of award-winning rum, founded in 2008. The company moved its headquarters from Silverton, CO to Crested Butte, CO in May 2011. Stop by for a distillery tour, artisan rum cocktail, free rum tasting, appetizer, and a rum experience like no other in the USA! Last call at 9pm. Live music in season!

Montanya Distillers

Located 1 block from Elk Ave, fine restaurants, and unique shops and galleries, the Elk Mountain Lodge has become the premier hotel in downtown Crested Butte. Completely and beautifully renovated, this one-of-a-kind historic inn features complimentary full breakfast and 19 guest rooms with either Queen, Twin, or King beds. Guest rooms are individually decorated. Third floor rooms have balconies with spectacular mountain views. After a long day of skiing or mountain biking, relax in the indoor hot tub or enjoy a drink at the lobby bar.

Elk Mountain Lodge

Breakfast and lunch served Mon-Sat 7am-2pm. Breakfast Only Sunday's 7am-1pm.

Paradise Cafe

Offering guided hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, backcountry skiing, snowshoeing, and hut trips throughout Western Colorado.

Colorado Backcountry Guide Service

Come taste for yourself why we have been voted Best Pizza in Crested Butte every year since 2002 when we opened!

Secret Stash

Enjoy over 50 km of groomed trails, ice-skating rink and snowshoeing. Rentals for all activities, guides and lessons are also available. Join us for moonlight dinner tours at our yurt in Magic Meadows and enjoy first class cuisine and beaufitful scenery.

Crested Butte Nordic Center

Whether you are visiting the mountains for the first time or returning, the Nickel is a Crested Butte tradition that must not be missed.

Wooden Nickel

The Dogwood is located in an old miners cabin just off of Elk Avenue. Come enjoy one of our creative cocktails which feature our house-infused liquors and simple syrups and one of our small plates in our courtyard or cozy up inside our cabin.