Mountain Rescue Aspen has successfully rescued a base jumper who crash-landed at the base of the Grotto Wall climbing area on Independence Pass on Saturday. Pitkin County Dispatch received an ...

ASPEN • In the forest along Independence Pass, there’s a place of bizarre, swirling rock and roaring water that captures the imagination of drivers who stop by. This was a favorite place of Bob Lewis.

If you wanted to time travel back to Aspen in the year 2000 to have a quintessential local experience, you might set your coordinates to The Grottos on a Friday night. That’s where the band Likewise ...

“Bob was an educator all his adult life,” says a longtime friend and writer, Paul Anderson, “and he brought that to bear at the Grottos.” That’s the name of the day-use area marked along the highway ...