5280 December Issue 2025

From 100 years of Route 66 to the world’s fastest woman on moguls to a music festival in Moab’s backcountry, these are the region’s most exciting people, places, and experiences.

In Denver, a growing community of designers is unearthing vintage finds, reimagining heirloom textiles, and creating highly personalized pieces to reclaim what fashion can be: thoughtful, resourceful, and timeless.

Five years into Colorado’sambitious wolf reintroductionexperiment, ranchers and con-servationists have never beenmore bitterly divided. Is peacefulcoexistence even possible?