About Aspen, Colorado

Aspen is a city of 7,004 people and the seat of Pitkin County, set on the Roaring Fork River just below 8,000 feet. In 1879 a party of miners stayed in the valley even though Governor Frederick Pitkin urged them to go back over the Continental Divide, because the Utes were fighting to keep their land. That year Henry B. Gillespie set up the first permanent camp on the Roaring Fork and called it Ute City.

The camp was renamed Aspen for the aspen trees around it. It opened a post office on June 7, 1880, became the seat of the new Pitkin County on February 23, 1881, and was incorporated on April 1, 1881. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 doubled federal silver buying, and in 1891 and 1892 Aspen outproduced Leadville as the top silver district in the country. When Congress repealed the act in the Panic of 1893, the mines shut within weeks, and by 1930 only 705 people were left.

  • A railroad race in 1886Two lines raced for Aspen's silver trade. In mid-October 1886 the Denver and Rio Grande, coming from Glenwood Springs, ran the first train into town, the same week the Colorado Midland reached Aspen Junction, now Basalt. The Midland got to Maroon Creek by December 1887, but late steel held up its Maroon Creek Bridge, so its first train didn't arrive until early February 1888. Passenger trains stopped for good on February 24, 1948, and freight followed in August 1968.
  • A governor from AspenAfter the silver crash, many people wanted silver made legal tender, and the People's Party took up the cause. Davis H. Waite, an Aspen newspaperman and agitator, rode that movement to the governor's office, though the silver campaign failed in the end. The Davis Waite House joined the National Register in 1987.
  • Skiing from 1946Investors planned a ski area in the 1930s, but World War II stopped the work. Friedl Pfeifer had trained near Aspen with the 10th Mountain Division, and he came back and teamed up with Walter Paepcke, an industrialist, and Elizabeth Paepcke, his wife. Together they started the Aspen Skiing Company in 1946. Buttermilk and Aspen Highlands opened in 1958, and Snowmass followed in 1967.
  • A tent by Eero SaarinenWith Walter Paepcke's help, the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation came to Aspen in 1949 and met under a tent that Eero Saarinen designed. In 1950 the town hosted the FIS World Championships.
  • The Movie Map of 1978In 1978 crews photographed Aspen's streets in detail for the Aspen Movie Map, a project paid for by the U.S. Department of Defense. It let users travel through the town on a screen and stands among the earliest examples of virtual reality software.

Find your street

Names on the Aspen map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks4

  • Aspen City Hall
  • Marolt Open Space
  • Iselin Park
  • Aspen Golf Course

Streets and roads126

  • East Main Street
  • West Main Street
  • East Cooper Avenue
  • Highway 82
  • West Hallam Street
  • Lake Avenue
  • North Third Street
  • North Sixth Street
  • South Monarch Street
  • West Hopkins Avenue
  • Neale Avenue
  • West Bleeker Street
  • Maple Lane
  • Park Circle
  • West North Street
  • Meadow Lane
  • North Fourth Street
  • Tie Hack Road
  • North Mill Street
  • Forge Road
  • Pfister Drive
  • Doolittle Circle
  • Maroon Creek Road
  • Moore Drive
  • Cemetery Lane
  • Castle Creek Road
  • Stage Road
  • East Hopkins Avenue
  • East Hyman Avenue
  • East Durant Avenue
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  • Harmony Road
  • South Mill Street
  • Ute Avenue
  • Paepcke Drive
  • Gibson Avenue
  • South Aspen Street
  • Roaring Fork Road
  • Red Butte Drive
  • Meadows Road
  • Crystal Lake Road
  • Vine Street
  • Silver King Drive
  • Eastwood Drive
  • Spruce Street
  • Aspen Mountain Road
  • Powderbowl Trail
  • North Fifth Street
  • Coach Road
  • Relay Road
  • Glen Dee Road
  • Snowbunny Lane
  • Pitkin Reserve
  • Lone Pine Road
  • Sneaky Lane
  • Falcon Road
  • East Bleeker Street
  • Homestake Drive
  • Midland Avenue
  • Prospector Road
  • Rio Grande Place
  • King Street
  • Silverlode Drive
  • Park Avenue
  • Waters Avenue
  • Westview Drive
  • Stage Court
  • Ute Place
  • Oak Lane
  • Bonita Drive
  • Teal Court
  • Gillespie Avenue
  • North Seventh Street
  • East Hallam Street
  • North First Street
  • Power Plant Road
  • Red Mountain Road
  • North Eighth Street
  • South Garmisch Street
  • Mining Stock Parkway
  • Race Alley
  • McSkimming Road
  • West Francis Street
  • Thunderbowl Lane
  • Doolittle Drive
  • Aspen Grove Road
  • South Galena Street
  • Pfiefer Drive
  • Exhibition Lane
  • South Alps Road
  • Pitkin Way
  • Marolt Place
  • High School Road
  • Castle Creek Drive
  • Lazy Chair Road
  • Mountain View Drive
  • Ardmore Drive
  • Pitkin Mesa Drive
  • Meadowood Drive
  • Pass Go Lane
  • Cinnamon Court
  • Lacet Lane
  • Black Birch Drive
  • Sage Court
  • Pearl Court
  • Fred Lane
  • North Spring Street
  • Eastwood Road
  • Truscott Place
  • Cascade Lane
  • Sierra Vista Drive
  • Glen Eagles Drive
  • Chatfield Road
  • Overlook Drive
  • Art Parkway
  • Shavano Drive
  • Club Circle
  • West Smuggler Street
  • Harmony Place
  • Puppy Smith Street
  • Clubside Drive
  • Cloud Nine Lane
  • Brown Lane
  • Midland Park Place
  • Harbour Lane
  • Sesame Street
  • Aabc 200

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The art of mapping a place

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

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