Mueller State Park opens long awaited XC Ski tracks after snow dump
Bradley Davis
DIVIDE, Co. (KRDO) – After over a foot of snow late last week, Mueller State Park saw one of its busiest weekends of the season so far as the park could finally groom and open its XC ski tracks.
Mueller has not escaped the impacts of Colorado’s warm and dry winter this year. Temperatures have been downright pleasant much of December and January. It culminated in a very warm start to the new year and elevated foot traffic for the park’s annual First Day Hike on Jan. 1. Finally, the warm hike goers are giving way to the winter snowshoe and XC ski enthusiasts.
“We’ve been getting Facebook messages for months about, ‘When will the groomed trails be open?'” said Mueller State Park Naturalist Anna Miller. “We had a trailhead that was near the groomed trailhead that was completely full,” Miller said about this past weekend.
The park was transformed overnight by the snow from Thursday into Friday. All of its cross-country ski trails are now open, and guests can finally break out the snowshoes.