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Mountain Fair is a summer arts and music fair held annually in Sopris Park in Carbondale, Colorado.It has been held annually during the last weekend of July since 1972. [1] [2] [3] Each year between 15,000 and 20,000 people attend the event over the course of the three days that it is held.
Mount Sopris is a twin-summit mountain in the northwestern Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The prominent 12,965-foot (3,952 m) mountain is located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest, 6.6 miles (10.7 km) north by northeast (bearing 30°) of the community of Redstone in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
Carbondale's largest annual event is the summer arts and music festival, Mountain Fair held in Sopris Park. The event has annual attendance between 18,000 and 20,000 people over the three days of which it is held, being nearly triple the population of Carbondale. [8]
Sopris National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado on April 26, 1909, with 655,360 acres (2,652.1 km 2). On August 7, 1920, the entire forest was transferred to Holy Cross National Forest and the name was discontinued.
The N.C. Mountain State Fair’s sister event, the North Carolina State Fair, founded in 1853, will run from Oct. 17-27 in Raleigh.
The Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about half a kilometer (0.3 miles). [6] The mountains are on the border between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Aspen.
Large portions of the mountain range receive over 40 inches (100 cm) of precipitation annually. [12] The high Uintas are snowcapped most of the year except for late July through early September. The Uinta Mountains have more than 400 miles (640 km) of streams and 1,000 lakes and ponds.
An executive order signed by President Trump in late January called for the EPA to expedite its removal of hazardous materials from the Los Angeles area wildfire zones.