Purgatory Mountain Resort

Purgatory Resort, CO, Elects New CEO as Leadership Team Shifts for Strategic Growth

  With the 2025/26 ski season in the books and summer operations on the horizon, Purgatory Resort has made changes to the mountain’s leadership team. The Durango, Colorado, mountain announced that Dave Rathburn, the former general manager, will now serve as the CEO. In addition to Dave, Josh Benson, the former guest services manager, will take over as the director […]
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SnowBrains Forecast: Snowy Sunday in Southwest Colorado

This forecast was created at 1:00 a.m. PST on Sunday, November 23, 2025. A cutoff low-pressure system is moving from Southern California up to the Four Corners region on Saturday night. Winds will rotate counterclockwise around the low-pressure center, allowing southerly winds to advect a substantial amount of moisture from the Pacific into the Southern Rockies on Sunday morning. A […]
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Durango, CO, to Host 2030 Union Cycliste Internationale Mountain Bike World Championships

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced that Durango, Colorado, will be the host city of the 2030 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. The event marks the 40-year anniversary from when the town of Durango and Purgatory Resort hosted the very first UCI mountain bike world championships races in 1990. The 2030 Worlds will take place from August 26 to September 1, 2030, featuring […]
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Upgrade Plans at Purgatory Resort, CO, Derailed by County, U.S. Forest Service

In April 2025, Purgatory Resort in Southern Colorado announced that it planned to invest $6 million into the mountain. A large part of that is going towards the Gelande lift, a new fixed-grip triple lift which had originally been scheduled to open for the 2025-26 winter season. The proposed lift would originate from the Gelande overflow parking lot and terminate […]
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La Plata County Sheriff’s Office Hopes to Reinstate Deputy Ski Program at Purgatory Resort, CO After “Ethical Violation”

The La Plata County Sheriff’s Office has hopes of reinstating the deputy ski patrol program at Purgatory Resort, CO after it was shut down by the Colorado Independent Ethics Department in 2019 because of a violation.  The deputy ski program launched in 2012 and it began as a very simple and helpful idea. The main objective of the program was […]
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