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As of 2012, based on data from the 2009–10 school year, according to U.S. News & World Report, Aspen High School, the only high school in the Aspen School District, is the top ranked high school in Colorado and ranked 59th in the United States. The high school has grades 9 to 12, 540 students, and 41 teachers.
The springs are an 8.5-mile (13.7 km) hike from the Conundrum Creek trailhead, located approximately ten minutes from Aspen by car. The site is surrounded by 14,000-foot (4,300 m) mountains, and is located above the tree line. The weather can change rapidly in the area.
Pitkin County is a county in the U.S. state of Colorado.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,358. [1] The county seat and largest city is Aspen. [2] The county is named for Colorado Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin.
Aspen Highlands was founded and the land developed in 1958 by Aspen resident Whip Jones. In 1993 Jones donated it to his alma mater, Harvard University. Harvard sold the resort to Houston, Texas developer Gerald D. Hines for $18.3 million. It later became part of the Aspen Skiing Company.
Aspen Mountain is a mountain summit in the Elk Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 11,212-foot (3,417 m) peak is located in White River National Forest , 1.4 miles (2.2 km) south-southeast ( bearing 162°) of downtown Aspen in Pitkin County , Colorado , United States .
Aspen Mountain (often called by its former name of Ajax among locals) is a ski area in the western United States, located in Pitkin County, Colorado, just outside and above the city of Aspen. Situated on the north flank of Aspen Mountain (for which it is named), its summit elevation is 11,212 feet (3,417 m) above sea level .
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Aspen became the seat of the newly established Pitkin County, named after Colorado's then-governor. During the 1880s, it grew rapidly, reaching almost 13,000 people. It was Colorado's third largest city after Denver and Leadville. [4] Investors from the East built railroads, a luxury hotel and an opera house with their fortunes. Plant ca. 1891