05/27/2026
Signed!
We’re celebrating a milestone agreement for the Crystal River!
Congrats to Pitkin and Gunnison Counties, the Town of Marble, the West Divide Water Conservancy and for stepping up and signing an agreement to keep the 40+ miles of the Crystal a rare treasure: a natural river and intact aquatic ecosystem that only come with an unaltered seasonal flow regime.
The Crystal is one of the last free-flowing rivers in Colorado, a living river born high in the peaks of the Elk Mountains. The river river winds through jagged canyon walls, open meadows like Filoha, geothermal hot spring pockets, and quiet stretches of ranchland before reaching Carbondale and joining the Roaring Fork River.
Bighorn sheep cling to the cliffs above it, native trout spawn throughout the seasons, elk and deer move through its migration corridors, and generations of people have built their lives around its steady flow.
The Crystal River carries history, ecology, and community through every bend. It draws anglers to its waters at dawn, families to its banks on summer evenings, and boaters who hit the flows just right.
Protecting the Crystal means protecting the heart of this valley and the life it provides.
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