{"id":797077,"date":"2019-06-24T19:31:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T01:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=367879"},"modified":"2019-06-25T08:41:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T14:41:39","slug":"breckenridge-troll-isak-heartstone-reopens-with-new-look-in-new-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breckenridge-troll-isak-heartstone-reopens-with-new-look-in-new-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge troll Isak Heartstone reopens with new look in new location"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Isak Heartstone, by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, sits in the new site along Illinois Creek Monday June 24, in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/em>
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BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Breckenridge\u2019s beloved trail troll, Isak Heartstone, is ready to receive visitors at his new home.<\/p>\n

The 15-foot tall wooden sculpture reopens to the public Tuesday, June 25, after closing in fall 2018 when nearby residents complained about too much traffic and noise from thousands of visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts popularity was beyond all exceptions,\u201d Breckenridge town manager Rick Holman said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we felt it was important to bring it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

After it was dismantled, artist Thomas Dambo reimagined the troll \u2014 using its original head, heart, hands and feet \u2014 and rebuilt it in May in a new location near the Stephen C. West Ice Arena and Illinois Gulch trailhead.<\/p>\n

A ribbon cutting is at 2:30 p.m. at Trollstigen trailhead. Visitors are encouraged to take the bus or walk 15 minutes from the Breckenridge Welcome Center to reduce traffic at the site.<\/p>\n

The celebration is the culmination of months of planning by a relocation committee and trail work by the town\u2019s Open Space and Trails department.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put together a community committee \u2026 to find a new location for the troll to bring him back in some reimagined form,\u201d Breckenridge Open Space & Trails manager Anne Murphy said.<\/p>\n

The committee \u2014 which was composed of Breckenridge residents, town council members and town employees \u2014 worked to find a location that was accessible and adventurous, offered an outdoor experience for visitors and could sustain a high amount traffic. The committee also searched for a site that had parking and no residential areas nearby.<\/p>\n

The new site \u201cchecked all the boxes for us,\u201d Holman said.<\/p>\n

The new directional Trollstigen trail \u2014 which was built by a six-person team from the trails department along with a local contractor \u2014 features a rock-lined path, 200 feet of wooden boardwalk and a flagstone area in front of the troll for photos and selfies, Murphy said.<\/p>\n

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Isak Heartstone, by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, sits in the new site along Illinois Creek on Monday, June 24, in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em>
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\u201cWe decided this trail has to sustain a lot of foot traffic for a very long time to come,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n

She said the town hopes to keep Isak for as long as possible, planning for a 10-year timeframe.<\/p>\n

Holman described the new viewing area as \u201cunbelievable,\u201d saying town staff went above and beyond in creating Isak\u2019s new home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone ever dreamed it would be as popular as it was,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Isak Heartstone, by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, sits in the new site along Illinois Creek on Monday, June 24, in Breckenridge.<\/strong>
Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em>
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Isak Heartstone, by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, sits in the new site along Illinois Creek Monday June 24, in Breckenridge.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com Buy Photo BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 Breckenridge\u2019s beloved trail troll, Isak Heartstone, is ready to receive visitors at his new home. The 15-foot tall wooden sculpture reopens to the public Tuesday, June 25, after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 04:03:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797093,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797077\/revisions\/797093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}