Carbondale is touted as one on "The Top 10 Adventure Towns in the U.S." by National Geographic Adventure magazine and as one of the "50 Best Places to Live/Most Active Towns" by Men's Journal magazine, Carbondale is a great base camp for recreation enthusiasts.
At an altitude of 6,181 feet there is an average of 295 days of sunshine, low humidity, cold but mild winters and comfortable summers. Carbondale is known as "the banana belt" of the Roaring Fork and Crystal River Valleys.
There is plenty to do, including hiking, biking, gold medal fly fishing, kayaking and skateboarding. In the winter, there is cross-country skiing, snowshoeing trails, snowmobiling and world famous downhill skiing and snowboarding.
Carbondale is located 170 miles west of Denver, 12 miles from Glenwood Springs, and 30 miles from Aspen in the heart of the central Rocky Mountains.
Carbondale continues to draw recognition as a culinary hot-spot from upscale and casual to sophisticated and succulent. A handful of out-of-the-way and unfranchised eateries offer an exquisite dining experience. You'll find Thai fair at the Phat Thai located in the historic district of town. A locals' favorite is Russets, named after the potato as Carbondale is historically known for harvesting potatoes, . A newer, fine dining restaurant located downtown is Ella which features fine wines and a cosmopolitan dining experience. For more information on other restaurants in town go to Carbondale Chamber.
Several diverse organizations are dedicated to the inspiration and promotion of the arts. Find yourself in a dramatic outdoor setting as you experience the visual arts, theatre with our new performing arts theatre, dance and music . You can wind your way from gallery to gallery and uncover the spirit of the valley in photography, painting, sculpture, glass, ceramics, jewelry, woodworking, blacksmithing and the performing Arts. Perhaps the most notable is the Annual CCAH Mountain Fair, which offers three days of music, arts and crafts-people come from everywhere for this fair.
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For recreation, Carbondale maintains an outdoor swimming pool and in 2008 opened their new recreation and community center. This facility is powered by a photovoltaic solar plant on its roof. This center has everything you need to work-out, a gymnasium, climbing wall etc. If you are looking for information on Homes for Sale in Carbondale, you will find that single family homes for sale start around $450,000.
If you are interested in the golf course communities-there are four. The public courses are the renown River Valley Ranch Golf Course where homes or town homes, etc for sale start around $600,000. The par-3 golf course, Ranch @ Roaring Fork, there are town homes and single family homes starting $500,000.
The private golf course communities- Aspen Glen offers duplexes and single family homes starting around $800,000; and Ironbridge Golf Course community single family start around $600,000. If you are looking for acreage, we have that too just a very short drive from town and prices starting around $500,000. Let me help you locate the perfect home for sale around Carbondale.
Once you come here for a vacation, you will be looking to relocate to this area. For more information about Carbondale, contact me!
