Author: Lee Riley

Happy 240th birthday, America! The 4th of July is the busiest time of year for Pagosa Springs. We represent small-town America at its finest. The party starts off with a parade and then an arts & crafts fair. The carnival is going on, and the Red Ryder Rodeo is happening. The finale of the celebration […]

Finally, summer is here! The trees all have their leaves and green is the color of the day. School is out, and the tourists are ready to escape the heat from the southwest. Last weekend was the 11th Annual Pagosa Folk ‘n Bluegrass Festival, which was lots of fun and great music! Next weekend will […]

May Day – another snow day in Pagosa. The weather this winter has been a roller coaster ride. We had lots of snow early in the year, which was good for the holiday season. Then January through March was sunny and mild. April showers brought a ton of moisture. The grass is very green, and […]

The crocuses are coming! The crocuses are coming! As I look out from my deck to the flower bed below, flowers are starting to pop up all over. Thankfully we have had a little moisture over the past few days. This winter was very strange; heavy snow in December and almost nothing since. El Nino […]

It feels like spring out there! We are experiencing warmer than usual temperatures in Pagosa with lots of sunshine. The Spring Break crowd will be coming to town over the next three weeks, so it’s a good thing we still have plenty of snow up on the mountain. The snowpack is currently sitting at 96% […]

Well, winter is half over. December was very snowy, January had almost no snow, and now it is dumping on us again in February. I got almost a foot of snow at my house in the past couple of days, and Wolf Creek is reporting 40 inches of new snow from the last storm. Our […]

It’s very white outside. El Nino is in full swing. We got a big storm around Christmas and then a second one just after New Year’s. Wolf Creek has been getting multiple feet of snow at a time. We’ve got sunny skies now, but all this snow won’t be going anyway anytime soon. Town was […]

Wildlife, downtown Pagosa Springs on a snowy day.

Even though winter is still officially a couple of weeks away, outside it feels like it is already here. At 7:00 a.m. the skies were clear and it was 12 degrees, which was very refreshing when I jumped into the hot tub outside my bedroom door. That’s pretty typical for this time of year. Speaking […]

Better Homeowners One-button Pricing?  An Automated Valuation Model, AVM, is a computer approach that looks at public records to make a determination based on square footage, comparable sales and other elements. It is as easy as putting your address in a blank but unfortunately, AVM results may only be accurate about 20% of the time. A […]