Mount Crested Butte, Colorado

About Mount Crested Butte

Mount Crested Butte is a tiny community in western Colorado counting 953 people who proudly call it home.

Mount Crested Butte holds the status of an incorporated town — local government on a neighborly scale. The community covers 2.07 square miles, giving it wide-open spaces and a spread-out, rural feel at roughly 460 residents per square mile.

📰 Mount Crested Butte News Today

• Mount Crested Butte Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 30
• Gunnison Valley answers annual call to help their neighbors fight cancer — even for reluctant recipients The Colorado Sun · Aug 3
• Mount Crested Butte, CO Wind Speed Map WeatherBug · Sep 11
• Air quality in Mount Crested Butte IQAir · Jun 23
• 6 Most Charming Towns In the Rockies WorldAtlas · Jul 15

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Mount Crested Butte Unique

• The only place in America named Mount Crested Butte — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• Positioned in western Colorado, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.
• Part of the fabric of Colorado — one of 482 recognized communities statewide.

Why People Love It Here

• A tight community feel that bigger cities can't replicate.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 21 miles.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Mount Crested Butte

• Crested Butte Burger Company — burger
• Avalanche Bar & Grill
• Butte 66
• Coffee Lab (café)
• Gothic Cafeteria
• Gothic Science Café (café)
• Iron Horse Tap
• Jefe's
• Paradise Warming Hut
• Uley's

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Mount Crested Butte

• Gothic Natural Area reviews ★
• Rock outline of a heart reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Mount Crested Butte

🏘️ Nearby Communities