Travel Guide Aspen

No need to introduce Aspen. However, this ski resort with glamor and ultra chic reputation has not always been the meeting of skiers and large fortunes. Originally a modest mining town, Aspen seduced industrialists Walter and Elizabeth Paepke in 1949 who imagined the city as an international cultural center. The idea is to take advantage of its openness to nature and establish many cultural infrastructures to feed both body and mind. Spend the day while growing at night. It works, the city soon hosts prestigious cultural programs and becomes known on the international cultural scene. Hiking, rafting, horse riding, cycling, fly fishing, climbing and of course skiing are increasingly popular. Then fashion and gastronomy develop and quickly, Aspen becomes a very coveted small mountain town. Today, it has over a hundred bars and restaurants, almost 200 shops and many art galleries. Its small city center, surrounded by historic buildings, is elegant and charming and its reliefs, whose colors evolve according to the seasons, offer a myriad of sports activities and leisure activities.Aspen is also the city of all extremes, that of the elegant five-year-old, that stroll through a thick fur skin with the arms loaded with packages, that of ski mortars and other fans of gliding but also that of premises, for whom life has become inaccessible and often accumulate several jobs. to make ends meet at the end of the month. If you are in the city mid-season, pay attention to addresses that close or rotate between the summer and ski season, and if you are in the middle of April, don't miss the incredible closing evenings of the stations. In the fall, the aspens (leafy trees that gave their name to the city) parent themselves with unique golden reflections. But whatever the time, Aspen's unmissable sports are still the day's sports activities and the city's outdoors in the evening. The little downtown easily walks on foot and is pretty safe. You will have more chance in the night to cross a lost bear than a dangerous mischief.