Redstone Community Association

10/10/2026

The RCA gives our Deepest Condolences to the family of Janette Bier after her passing on Sept 15. Please see the attached obituary and attend Janette’s Memorial on October 12 10AM at the Orchard in Carbondale.

October 6, 1942 – September 15, 2026 Janette Rae (Johnson) Bier, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, teacher, singer and friend, passed away peacefully on September 15, 2026 at Sunfire Ranch in the Crystal River Valley...

10/05/2026

RCA Monthly meeting Tuesday Oct 6 5:30PM at the Redstone Inn

Agenda will mainly focus on Grand Illumination Planning

- bonfire
-fireworks
- santa
- Santa’s workshop
- volunteer opportunities

Please come and help us plan for 2026 Grabd Illumination

09/09/2026

Pitkin County has begun the process of planning new lights on the boulevard, they want to keep a historic feel while modernizing the lighting and conforming more to dark sky. These lights are adjustable so they can be used just to light the street and not front yards. They also will
Not allow light to shine upwards and only downwards.

If you have input on the one Installed at the corner of the redstone inn by the mail
Boxes you can either email the RCA, or comment on this post and we will
Forward a list of comments or you can email the county directly. We will submit your comment either anonymously or with your name if you choose.

Once feedback is completed the light poles and tops will all be repainted to match.

08/12/2026

RUBY OF THE ROCKIES!!!!!

The Bridge is OPEN!!!!!!

There’s so many people we need to Thank for this epic event for our community.

First off THANK YOU Myers & Sons Construction ahead of schedule, under budget and your crew was great!!!! They were very respectful to our community, friendly and all around great to have around, we’re happy to see them go since the bridge is open but will be sad they won’t be around cause they were all great!!!!

Next, thank you Pitkin County Government and especially Andrew Knapp, we needed a new bridge and you guys did a great job getting it together, I know there was many more involved but Andrew had great communication with the RCA and Community, put in tons of man hours behind the scenes, and we believe was pivotal in making this happen.

Thank you to the Redstone Inn for the use of their tent for the potluck, your staff that helped set up the tent for us, donating the tea, lemonade and water, kitchen staff for letting us use some serving spoons, since we spaced that, and giving the community a place to have a fun friendly potluck.

Redstone Community, you all showed up
In force and made this opening a special one!!! Thank you to all the kiddos who were part of the parade, the future generation of Redstone set the precedence for the new bridge. To all the other community members thank you for joining the potluck, and supporting the RCA, as well as showing up to thank the county and Myers and Sons crew for their hard work!!!!

Thank you to the RCA Volunteers who helped with cooking, setup, take down, clean up, reset the Redstone Welcome sign, and everything in between!!!!

Thank you to Tucker Farris and the The Crystal Valley Echo for the use of the Osgood Scissors to cut the ribbon and showing up to document the historic event for Redstone.

Lastly thank you to the Redstone businesses and residential community for understanding the traffic issues, extra traffic on the north end, it was a bit of a tough summer that I believe took a toll on everyone one way or another but we got through it!!!!! Hopefully onto the next chapter!!

Redstone General StoreRedstone Trading StationStephanie HelfenbeinNathan HelfenbeinLisa Mattson

08/05/2026

RCA Community Potluck and South Bridge Opening

The RCA Community Potluck will start at 5:45PM Tuesday August 11 at the wedding tent of the Redstone Inn!!!!!
- Brats and Hot Dogs provided by RCA
- Community members are asked to bring their favorite side for a potluck style dinner!!!
- ABSOLUTELY NO BYOB, Redstone Inn will be providing b**r and w**e for the event (cash bar style)
7PM Pitkin County and the RCA will be having a ribbon cutting ceremony to
Open the south bridge!!!!!!
- please bring your kiddos to line up with their bikes (non motorized) to let the future of Redstone Christen the new bridge for generations to come!!!!
- The ceremony will not have motorized traffic, but immediately following the ribbon cutting the bridge will officially be open to all traffic.
- See the original Redstone Osgood scissors cut the ribbon for our brand new upgraded bridge.
After the ribbon cutting come back to the Redstone Inn to hang out with your fellow community members, share stories, have fun and be happy

We hope you all can be there to thank Myers and Sons for meeting their deadline to open the bridge 30 days early, their hard work and dedication made this happen for us earlier than expected

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!!!!!

07/28/2026

THE BRIDGE IS OPENING!!! THE BRIDGE IS OPENING!!!

The bridge should be opening in the next couple weeks!!! There is a projected date but we aren’t confirming as there are still quite a few things to finish. But an early completion is still planned..

The RCA is working with Pitkin County for a Bridge Opening/Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. The projected ribbon cutting will be a late afternoon and exact date and time will be announced once we have full confirmation from the contractor and county.

What to expect
- a ribbon cutting ceremony that announces the official opening of the South Bridge
- The RCA has proposed that we have children walking or on bicycles to be the first ones to cross over the bridge once the ribbon is cut
- The RCA is planning to have the annual community potluck immediately following the bridge ceremony

Please stay tuned and once we have the official date we will announce it along with Pitkin County, the hopeful planned date is the week of Aug 10

If anyone has any thoughts, concerns, suggestions, questions or comments please let us know we will also be discussing at the Aug 4 RVA Meeting 5:30PM Redstone inn

07/07/2026

There was a straw cowboy hat as well as a necklace found after Redstone 4th of July, around Redstone park/elk park area if you may have lost one of these items please comment with a description and we will Get you in touch with who found them!!

07/05/2026

THANK YOU REDSTONE!!!!!!!!
We pulled it off!!!! Another 4th of July in the books!!!

Please share your photos from today with us we’d love to see them and let others see your moments!!!

We want to thank our group of volunteers for everything they did today and over the past several months to make this event happen!!!!

100’s of volunteer hours leading up to today and also on this day alone. Parking, parade, bike decorating, the behind the scenes we can’t make it happen without the help!!! A great day, a memorable day and to top it off we didn’t have any real complaints from the north bridge to the south bridge!!

GREAT job to our RCA board, our volunteers and GREAT job to our parade attendees for being understanding and respectful with our volunteer team!!!! We had a great event with several activities

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Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District Pitkin County Government Propaganda PieAvalanche Outfitters at Redstone StablesRedstone Trading StationRedstone General StoreRedstone InnPitkin County Sheriff's Office

07/04/2026

Lost strider bike please comment here with info

I am hoping you may be able to assist/ point me in the right direction to track down my daughter’s blue strider bike that was left at the 4th of July parade.

It had a green piece of tape with her name on it”jennie wylde” on it.

If you have a lost and found or know of someone else to contact please let me know.
Thanks!

07/03/2026

Anyone who gets cool pictures of American flags this weekend, 133 flag, boulevard flag, random flag, bridge flag please send them to us with you name (for photo credit) we’d like to put a collage together of Redstone 4th of July 250
And 150!!!!! The cooler the better!!!! We’d greatly appreciate it!!!!