Tag
durango
8 Porch Notes tagged “durango,” from counties across Colorado.
Local rules - La Plata County
In Durango, short-term rentals are only allowed in certain zones
The City of Durango regulates short-term vacation rentals through permits, allows them only in specific zones, and caps how many can operate in some neighborhoods.
Read note ->History and culture - La Plata County
The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic: When Durango Cyclists Race the Train
Every Memorial Day weekend, Durango cyclists try to beat the narrow-gauge steam train to Silverton over two high mountain passes, in a race born from a brothers' bet in 1971.
Read note ->Local rules - La Plata County
In La Plata County, your address decides who makes the rules
Durango is a home-rule city with its own rules, while unincorporated La Plata County answers to the county, so jurisdiction depends on exactly where a property sits.
Read note ->History and culture - La Plata County
Durango exists because of a railroad and the mines it served
The narrow-gauge railroad between Durango and Silverton was built to move ore from the San Juan mines, and it helps explain why Durango sits where it does.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire - La Plata County
Durango's trailheads start at the edge of downtown
Durango's natural-surface trail systems begin minutes from Main Avenue, free and open to bikes, hikers, and horses alike.
Read note ->History and culture - La Plata County
Animas City came first, then Durango, then they became one
Animas City was an older settlement just north of Durango that lost out when the railroad chose a new townsite in 1880, and the two eventually merged into modern Durango.
Read note ->History and culture - La Plata County
Durango's Main Avenue is a designated historic district
Downtown Durango's Main Avenue is a recognized historic district whose buildings record the town's mining-era beginnings and later growth as a regional hub.
Read note ->History and culture - La Plata County
Durango's East 3rd Avenue is a street of historic homes
East 3rd Avenue in Durango is a tree-lined street of older homes long recognized for its historic character; check with the city and History Colorado before changing a property there.
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