DENVER (KDVR) — The annual Ouray Ice Festival is set to take place at the end of January, but there’s a problem — there’s no ice. The Ouray Ice Festival takes place every year for three decades, with ...

OURAY, Colo. — A warm winter has delayed the opening of Ouray Ice Park, disrupting a seasonal economic engine for the southwestern Colorado town and forcing organizers, workers and climbers to adapt.

While some travelers flock south for warm weather to escape the winter, others know that the icy side of winter brings its own unique catalogue of activities that keep the heart warm. Colorado takes ...

Timmy Foulkes, an ice farmer at the Ouray Ice Park, turns off the shower heads that drench the walls of the Uncompahgre gorge as they try desperately to build ice in Ouray on Dec. 30, 2025. (The ...

After weeks of planning for the worst, the Ouray Ice Park has ice to offer after all, just in time for the 31st Ice Festival this weekend. Ice Park Executive Director Peter O’Neil has spent the past ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rescue teams retrieved the body of an ice climber from a southern Colorado mountain early Sunday, according to Ouray officials. The climber, whose identity ...

In southwest Colorado near the town of Ouray, winter helps turn a narrow canyon gorge into a frozen wonderland. But the massive walls of ice, stretching more than 100 feet from the canyon floor to the ...

OURAY, Colo. — A rescue team has recovered the body of an ice climber from the San Juan Mountains. Early on Sunday, members of the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team recovered the body of the ice climber, ...

OURAY, Colo. (KRDO) – Rescue teams recovered the body of an ice climber from a southern Colorado mountain early Sunday morning, according to the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team. The climber, whose identity ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Search and rescue teams on Sunday recovered the body of an ice climber who died on Saturday near Ouray. Ouray Mountain Rescue Team members on Sunday performed the recovery in the ...

There is 17,000 vertical feet of rock wall, along one and half miles of canyon, that needs to get covered with ice every year, and it's the job of a four-man crew of ice farmers to grow all the ice.