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Coffee-table magazines might have you believe that
a tollgate outside ASPEN only admits film stars
and the super-rich. This elite ski resort , two
hundred miles west of Denver via Leadville, is indeed home to
the likes of Cher, Jack Nicholson and Goldie Hawn, but it can
be an affordable and very appealing place for anyone visit in
summer - unless you're on an absolute shoestring budget. Visiting
in winter requires more cash, though you can save money by commuting
to the slopes from Glenwood Springs, less than fifty miles away.
From inauspicious beginnings in 1879, this pristine
mountain-locked town developed slowly, thanks to its remote location,
to become one of the world's top silver producers. By the time
the silver market crashed fourteen years later, it had acquired
tasteful residential palaces, grand hotels and an opera house.
In the 1930s, when the population slumped below seven hundred,
it was, ironically, the anti-poverty WPA program that gave the
struggling community the cash to build its first crude ski lift
in 1936. Entrepreneurs seized the opportunity presented by the
varied terrain and plentiful snow, and the first chairlift was
dedicated on Aspen Mountain (now known as Ajax
) in 1947. Skiing has since spread to three more mountains - Aspen
Highlands, Snowmass and Buttermilk Mountain, and the jet set arrived
in force during the 1960s. Development is a burning
political issue: tight architectural constraints have been placed
on businesses ( McDonald's is forbidden to have a neon sign),
but the last decade has seen yet more Scandinavian-style lodges,
condo blocks and giant houses that remain empty for most of the
year.
