Cuchara Valley, a ski area in the Sangre de Cristo Range, may be reopened after two decades.

For small-town charm surrounded by breathtaking nature, head to this underrated Colorado mountain village with a cute ...

Volunteers are reviving Cuchara Valley Ski Area through nonprofits and a partnership with Huerfano County.

It’s been nearly 20 years since anything has happened in the valley that goes dark for several months every winter. And it’s been a while since anyone has offered new ideas at Cuchara.

A promising plan to revive the Cuchara Valley ski area in southern Colorado -- complete with zip line, tubing hill, a halfpipe for snowboarders and a seventy-room hotel -- has folks in Walsenburg ...

The small mountain town of Cuchara came extremely close to burning the Spring Fire. The fire was more than close it burned into and around homes on the north edge of the Cuchara Valley.

Cuchara • Folks who live in this rural mountain valley have watched their local ski area open and close so many times that they sometimes feel as if they are living through a real-life version ...

Huerfano County wants a partner to help revive Cuchara Mountain Park, but it won’t be a pair of Florida investors proposing an adventure park for the ski area where lifts have not turned since 2000.

The old Cuchara Valley ski area operated from 1982-2000 at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in south central Colorado, 25 miles from the New Mexico border. (Paul Smith, Special to The ...