Features

VIDEO: The Silverton Standard rides again!

The Silverton Standard has been the subject of a number of recent videos highlighting the historic newspaper’s importance to the community and its struggle to survive as a nonprofit – “Silverton Public Newspaper.

Destination: Silverton

This summer's magazine includes feature stories on the many Old Western movies filmed in Silverton, and the Legend of the Highland Mary Mine. Was a speculator from New York guided by a psychic in his quest for a "Lake of Gold"?   Destination: Silverton is distributed free throughout the region.

'The Mountains Were Angry'

A fierce storm was just getting started in the high San Juans and it was snowing pretty hard at about noon on Friday, Dec. 16, when Alex Lewis, 29, of Denver and his friend Matt Koch, 32, of Gypsum started skiing up the Ophir Road from U.S.