Pitkin, Colorado

About Pitkin

Set in the western part of Colorado, Pitkin is a tiny community, home to 73 residents as of the latest Census estimates.

Pitkin holds the status of an incorporated town — local government on a neighborly scale. The community covers 0.26 square miles, giving it wide-open spaces and a spread-out, rural feel at roughly 281 residents per square mile.

📰 Pitkin News Today

• Pitkin County expanding EV charger infrastructure AspenTimes.com · Oct 4
• Pitkin County Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 28
• Pitkin County ‘steps up’ to manage the Maroon Bells Colorado Public Radio · Sep 23
• Aspen-Pitkin County Airport reopens after law enforcement responds to unspecified threat The Colorado Sun · Sep 22
• Email threat causes temporary shutdown at Colorado's Aspen/Pitkin County Airport CBS News · Sep 22

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

📰 Local News

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What Makes Pitkin Unique

• One of the smallest municipal footprints in the country at just 0.26 sq mi.
• With 73 residents, it's one of America's smallest incorporated communities — everybody really does know everybody.
• Positioned in western Colorado, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 23 miles.

🎡 Fun Things to Do

• Alpine Station Historic Town · Attraction

Attractions mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Pitkin

• Fossil Ridge Recreation Management Area · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Fossil Ridge Wilderness · Nature reserve reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

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