39.1911°N / 106.8175°W · United States
In winter, the town on this sheet looks south. The pale strips that cut through the green at the bottom are where the runs of Aspen Mountain come down, and the grid of streets above them stops at the foot of the slope, held between the mountain and the bends of the Roaring Fork.
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The townsite fills the upper half of the sheet: a small grid of rectangular blocks, set just off the points of the compass, with one heavier line running through it from left to right. That line is Main Street, and the highway with it: it comes in from the left, crosses the whole grid and leaves at the lower right. Along the grid’s northern and eastern edges, the Roaring Fork winds in tight bends, a thin blue line lined with green, with a few ponds beside it; beyond the river, the streets give up the grid and loop across the slopes.
Below the grid, Aspen Mountain fills the lower half of the sheet. It has no relief on this map, but its woods are drawn in green, in irregular islands, and the pale strips between them are where the runs come down to the edge of town. Thin blue lines of small streams run down the slope; the peaks around the valley lie beyond every edge. The railways that once reached the town ran along its north and south sides, and nothing of them remains on the map.
Water is a thread here, but it frames the town on two sides: an ink strong enough for a narrow line keeps the bends of the Roaring Fork readable, and the ponds beside it. Green does more work than usual, on the mountain and along the river; a green with some depth turns the slope into islands of forest, with the paper showing through where the runs come down. The grid is small and regular: a mid-tone street line is enough, with Main Street and the highway in the darkest ink.
Portrait, a little south of the engraved point, which sits on the north-east side of the grid, near the river: the townsite in the upper half, the bends of the Roaring Fork around it, Aspen Mountain in the lower half. The rest of the valley and its peaks lie beyond every edge. Pull back and more of the valley enters, but the grid shrinks to a small patch; come closer and its blocks sharpen, while the mountain leaves the sheet.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. A sheet that holds a summer town and a winter mountain lets the caption say which season was yours.
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In February 1880, B. Clark Wheeler received authority to survey and plat a townsite of 281.5 acres on ranch claims between Aspen and Smuggler mountains, bounded by the foot of the mountains, the Roaring Fork and Castle Creek. Its rectangular blocks were laid out on a grid set just off the true points of the compass. The streets were seventy-five feet wide; the two main thoroughfares, Main Street, running east to west, and Center Street, now Garmisch, running north to south, were a hundred. On the sheet, Main Street is the heavier line that crosses the whole grid.
In December 1936 the people of Aspen formed a ski club, and by 1937 its members had cleared the two-mile Roch Run on Aspen Mountain; the first lift was a pair of eight-passenger wooden boat tows. One of them now stands at the base of Lift Number One, built in 1946. On the sheet, the mountain’s woods are the green islands below the grid, and the runs come down through the pale strips between them.
The first railway reached Aspen on 1 November 1887, the second on 4 February 1888. Unlike many towns of the time, Aspen kept its plan: the rights of way did not cut into the town but skirted the townsite to the north and the south. The tracks have long been removed, and the map does not draw railways in any case; what it shows is the result, a grid left whole.
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The runs on this mountain come down into the same small grid. Whichever street you skied down to at the end of the day, it is on this sheet.
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