{"id":2451719,"date":"2019-12-01T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316933"},"modified":"2019-12-01T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:00:00","slug":"sky-mountain-park-north-mesa-areas-closed-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/sky-mountain-park-north-mesa-areas-closed-for-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Mountain Park, North Mesa areas closed for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/skymountain-atd-120219-1024x649.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/skymountain-atd-120219-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/skymountain-atd-120219-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/skymountain-atd-120219-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/skymountain-atd-120219-1536x973.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/skymountain-atd-120219.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Courtesy of Pitkin County Open Space and Trails<\/strong><br \/><em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Sky Mountain Park and North Mesa areas in Snowmass were closed to all recreational activity for the winter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to a town news release, the areas are closed from Sunday until May 16 to protect sensitive winter habitats for elk, mule deer and other wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Snowmass Village Animal Services Department and Colorado Parks &amp; Wildlife enforce these trail closures, which include all of Sky Mountain Park, Rim Trail North, Seven Star Trail and the Upper North Mesa Equestrian Trail. There is a zero-tolerance policy for trail closure violations and fines can reach up to $5,000, the town release stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For more information, visit snowmassrecreation.com\/201\/Seasonal-Trail-Closures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/sky-mountain-park-north-mesa-areas-closed-for-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Pitkin County Open Space and Trails The Sky Mountain Park and North Mesa areas in Snowmass were closed to all recreational activity for the winter Sunday. According to a town news release, the areas are closed from Sunday until May 16 to protect sensitive winter habitats for elk, mule deer and other wildlife. [&hellip;]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 04:08:12","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}