How do I submit a public comment on Telluride Ski Resort Improvements?

The public comment window for this decision closed on August 11, 2026. The record of what was at stake stays on this page.

When is the public comment deadline for Telluride Ski Resort Improvements?

The comment window closed on August 11, 2026.

Do public comments actually change federal decisions?

Yes, when they are substantive. Agencies are legally required to read and respond to substantive comments before finalizing a rule, and specific personal comments about real places and real uses carry far more weight than identical form letters. Courts have overturned rules when agencies ignored substantive comments.

Telluride Ski Resort expansion nears final approval

What the proposal said, and what the decision did

No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.

No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.

Affects public lands

PLAN’s own label for this notice, read from the official notice ↗.

The Forest Service is close to approving new lifts, skiway widening, and a restaurant at Telluride Ski Resort on national forest land.

What’s at risk

Only people who submitted written comments during the earlier scoping period are eligible to file an objection. At stake is expanded resort development within the existing operational boundary of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests, including new and replaced lifts, skiway construction and widening, a mountain bike trail, and a high-altitude restaurant.

If this goes through

If finalized, the Forest Service will authorize these resort improvements on national forest land, and the window to formally challenge the decision will close permanently.

Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.

In the agency’s own words

A suite of projects is proposed as identified in Telluride Ski Resort's (TSR) 2017 Master Development Plan (MDP) and subsequent 2023 & 2024 MDP Amendments within TSRs 2019s existing operational boundary.

Forest Service project page ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Colorado

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Colorado, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

Rocky Mountain Wild
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Colorado BLM Lease Sale, Colorado: Joined the formal challenge to the January 2026 replacement lease sale and previously sued BLM over the Roan Plateau leases.
San Juan Citizens Alliance
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado: Shaped the 2010 management plan, has fought oil and gas leasing decisions inside the monument for two decades, mobilized against the 2017 monument review, and states it continues to defend CANM.
Thompson Divide Coalition
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Thompson Divide, Colorado: A conservation group working on Thompson Divide.
WildEarth Guardians
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado: Named petitioner against the Uinta Basin Railway over habitat destruction in the basin.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.

In court on this ground

No court case we track is over Gunnison National Forest, Uncompahgre National Forest and 1 more unit.

Who holds the vote

PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.

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Forest ServiceWe track this on the agency’s own system of record, where most on-the-ground decisions live.

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Telluride Ski Resort expansion nears final approval

What the proposal said, and what the decision did

In the agency’s own words

4 groups predicted likely to care in Colorado

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