{"id":113947,"date":"2015-03-12T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-and-telluride-bookend-forbes-list\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T01:37:14","slug":"durango-and-telluride-bookend-forbes-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-and-telluride-bookend-forbes-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango and Telluride bookend Forbes\u2019 list"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=289b66bc-1135-40e2-b0a2-b7a9e12e0aeb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=289b66bc-1135-40e2-b0a2-b7a9e12e0aeb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=289b66bc-1135-40e2-b0a2-b7a9e12e0aeb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=289b66bc-1135-40e2-b0a2-b7a9e12e0aeb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1549\" height=\"1004\" alt=\"Adults and kids were out in force enjoying the warm temperatures on Saturday afternoon at Purgatory Ski Resort. The ski area isn\u2019t exactly in Durango; nevertheless, Forbes magazine named Durango to its list of top 10 ski towns.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Adults and kids were out in force enjoying the warm temperatures on Saturday afternoon at Purgatory Ski Resort. The ski area isn\u2019t exactly in Durango; nevertheless, Forbes magazine named Durango to its list of top 10 ski towns.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Steve Lewis\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Forbes magazine named our fair city one of the \u201cTop 10 Ski Towns in America,\u201d with half of the Top 10 located in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Durango came in at No. 10. Telluride earned bragging rights after gaining the top spot, followed by Park City, Utah; Steamboat Springs; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Aspen; Stateline, Nevada, and South Lake Tahoe, California; Breckenridge; Ketchum and Sun Valley, Idaho; and the lone Eastern entry, Stowe, Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>The descriptions of Durango are not necessarily correct, \u201cwhere mock \u201cgunfights\u201d break out several times a week in the period Diamond Belle Saloon\u201d and the city located as \u201cthe gateway to the Native American ruins of Chaco Canyon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the mentions of \u201cthe nation\u2019s most famous historic narrow gauge railroad,\u201d Purgatory, San Juan Untracked and Silverton Mountain are purely complimentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and kids were out in force enjoying the warm temperatures on Saturday afternoon at Purgatory Ski Resort. The ski area isn\u2019t exactly in Durango; nevertheless, Forbes magazine named Durango to its list of top 10 ski towns.Steve Lewis\/Durango Herald Forbes magazine named our fair city one of the \u201cTop 10 Ski Towns in America,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[6383,170,13,70,712,4502],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-113947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-diamond-belle-saloon","tag-durango-and-silverton-narrow-gauge-railroad-co","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-news-lead","tag-purgatory","tag-talk-about-town"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113947"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=113947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}