Ophir: Prospect Basin
Tucked into the San Juan Mountains, Prospect Basin is a place whose character is shaped by steep, high-altitude ski terrain. It forms part of Telluride Ski Resort above the historic mining town of Telluride, in southwestern Colorado's rugged San Juan range. The basin's runs and wooded slopes are integrated into a larger resort network that also links Telluride with Mountain Village. Far below, the San Miguel River runs through the Telluride valley, while ridgelines, peaks and dense conifer forest give the area its distinctly alpine scale. Telluride developed during Colorado's late-19th-century mining era; its National Historic Landmark District preserves the town's mining-era streetscape. Prospect Basin represents the wilder, higher side of this mountain community.
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Ophir straddles the Howard Fork of the San Miguel River in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, a confined high-country setting that shaped it as a mining settlement and later a small residential community. Silver drew prospectors here in the late 19th century, and the town’s historic core still reflects that era rather than the larger resort development found elsewhere in the region. Steep slopes rise directly from the valley, while Ophir Pass provides a seasonal unpaved route across the mountains toward the Red Mountain Pass area. Its location in San Miguel County places it amid Colorado’s rugged southwestern ranges and backcountry trail country. Browse other webcams across Colorado’s San Juan Mountains to place Ophir in a wider geographic context.
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