Pagosa Springs, CO Reviews

Lost potential - 9/13/2018
Driving in from the Durango airport (If you can ignore the slum area just before town on 160) is a beautiful sight!
As pretty as any town in Colorado. (Except for all of the crappy mobile homes, cars, old rvs, junk piles, etc.
There’s plenty to do here as far as outdoor activities. Great fishing in the river. The Hot Spring resorts are amazing!
Most snow in Colorado at Wolf Creek ski area.
Wow what missed potential this area has.,
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Beautiful crazy place! - 6/13/2018
First off it’s generally beautiful around here!
Tons of things to do..mostly outside things, like you’d expect from a ski/mountain town -hunting, fishing, hiking, rafting,skiing,, etc.
For a “ski town” it’s relatively affordable.
It’s a weird strange place though....very hard to get things done...(construction for example) because the locals enjoy the amenities too. Very few full time workers.
There also is a huge enonomic gap....on one hand you have folks flying their multimillion dollar private jets into town in order to visit their multimillion dollar ranches...on the other hand you can find whole families living in 3rd world quality shacks..or old Rvs.....with no power, no running water & crapping in buckets!
The county tries to regulate this but is serverly underfunded.
So there is a ton of this going on in the rural areas.

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Beautiful Mountain Town - 11/26/2017
Pagosa is a beautiful mountain town with an abundance of outdoor activities: skiing, fishing, hunting, hiking, and camping. It is also a major tourist area with many non resident property owners. Compared to the front range there is a lot less social activities and job opportunities but less traffic as well. Compared to the mountain towns of the I 70 corridor, it is a lot more affordable and substantially less congested. If you want more activity, Durango is 1 hour away, Farmington 2 hours, and Albuquerque Read More

It's Not Denver...which is good. - 8/13/2017
I have lived in CO for 45 years, mostly along the front range. When my husband retired we looked around CO for a new place to live, away from all the negatives in the Denver area. Most of CO in the mountains is very expensive (Vail, Aspen, Glenwood, Steamboat, Crested Butte, Telluride, etc). Hardly anyone but millionaires can live in ski towns. HOWEVER, charming Pagosa Springs is 30 miles from Wolf Creek Ski Area, which usually has the most snow in the state, while down in Pagosa we may have 25% of that much snow. There are predictions of huge growth in the next 20 years.

EMPLOYMENT: There are many service jobs, think restaurants, the Wyndham, hotels, landscaping, construction. Best jobs are probably government and schools. I doubt many people make much money here.

There are many retired people here. There are some younger people and families. Those with kids complain how there isn't much to do in the winter.

REAL ESTATE: 70% of the homes are Read More

Pagosa Springs, Colorado - 7/4/2011
RE: Your Review . . . or Lack there of . . .

Why no Profile or Review of Pogosa Springs, Colorado?

Come on - - you can do better! I'm counting on you folks.

Thank you.

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No place for kids, young adults - 4/6/2011
I can't imagine why anyone with children would target Pagosa Springs. While beautiful, there is almost zero to do for youngsters, plus the school system has recently become the worst I've ever encountered, for the most part. The local governments lack leadership and are at least two decades behind the times. Unless you're a retiree, this ultra-conservative, backwards place will drive you to tears. Not the place for a career, culture or quality education. Great for outdoor Read More

Our town is BORING - 7/25/2010
it is so beautiful here. Nature is everywhere and the air is clean BUT there is absolutely nothing to do with small children. Cabin fever is an Read More

Small Business - 11/25/2008
Pagosa Springs has to be the most gosh awful place on the face of the earth to have a business. They are hurting for money..... you would think they would cooperate with the business owners a little more since, after all, the more money a business makes the more sales tax is generated for the city. Don't know about those public officials. Must have their head.... well, you know where.

As far as beauty goes, the area is gorgeous.

So before you think this might just be the place for you to move to and open up a little shop of your own - do a LOT of talking to downtown and the west end of town. You probably will change your mind. Unless you are one of those lucky ones with a bank account of $10,000,000,000.00 and can afford to donate it to the expensive town of Pagosa Springs, CO.
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Comfortable Climate - 6/10/2008
Although the weather does change here often, overall it is very easy to live with. We have snowy winters (some more than others). It is not unusual to have a snow storm at the end of May or beginning of June. We have dry warm summers, but they are very tolerable. Very few homes have air conditioning. Most open their windows at night and let the cool air in and close them during the days to keep it cooler inside their Read More

Pagosa - 4/7/2006
Beautiful small town, nice climate, winters are long but sunny.
No crime, no traffic.
Not much diversity.
You need to drive 50 miles to buy a pair of socks.
No cultural or educational Read More