A Secluded Mountain Getaway...

We rent 5 unique and rustic cabins with full kitchens, and four lodge rooms with kitchenettes (one has a full kitchen). Around the lodge grounds and among the spruce and aspen trees are campfire rings, horseshoe pits, picnic tables, barbecues, and a hefty marmot that lives under the boardwalk and pops up unexpectedly to check on our guests.

Summer is our gilded season, when visitors swell Marble into a mountain leisure park. There is no golf, no tennis, no scuba diving - but there are fishing holes, river rafting, lake activities, horse rides and pack trips, hiking and biking trails, wildlife, jeeping, magnificent waterfalls, and relics of our rich mining culture to be discovered. In the fall we get 'leaf peepers' and hunters.

Stroll down the wooded lane from the lodge and you are at Beaver Lake , a large pond surrounded by rugged, often snow-capped mountains. Bring a canoe, a fishing pole, a deck chair....
We like to say that the pristine, misdeveloped, rugged, star crossed town of Marble is what Aspen could have been if they'd played their cards right!

Continue, and the wooded lane becomes a jeep trail to the remote ghost town of Crystal City. On the way, stop at the famous Crystal Mill .

Marble's mining heritage is different than all the rest in Colorado's rugged mountains because in Marble they mined....marble. No messy mine tailings, no toxic dumps. However, the debris from this industry is remarkable. Everywhere you go in Marble, you find cut chunks of pure white....marble. The Yule Marble Company was once the biggest marble mine in the world, staffed by Italian and Greek carvers and American industrialists. There was a gondola up to the cutting pit, which, unfortunately, crashed twice. The second of these crashes caused the death of the President of the Yule Marble company, which led to an irrevocable decline in the fortunes of the town of Marble. This was before OSHA.

Walking back through town you will cross a bridge over Carbonate Creek, pass the old State Bank building, and the restored Marble Community Church. With an active congregation of people from all over the Roaring Fork Valley - Aspen to Glenwood Springs, the Marble Community Church provides a special, timeless, non-denominational worship experience.

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