Our 5 cabins were home to quarry workers a century ago. The cabins have been newly updated without sacrificing their vintage character. Each cabin is unique, but all have porches, hardwood floors, log beds, handmade quilts, baths, kitchens and charcoal grills. Cabin rates are $79-$109 per night. Around the cabins and among the spruce and aspen trees are campfire rings, picnic tables, barbecues, and a hefty marmot that lives under the wooden boardwalk and pops up to check on our guests.

The lodge was once East Marble's school house, built in the late 1800s. Over the years it has been added onto and transformed into the town's meeting hall, a bait and tackle shop, a restaurant, and sine the mid 1050s, a lodge. The rooms in the lodge have been newly renovated. In contrast to the more rustic cabins, the lodge rooms have a Country Inn appeal: antiques, down comforters, matelasse coverlets, vintage-style wallpaper and poster beds. The lodge rooms are equipped with full baths and kitchenettes (one having a full kitchen), and each lodge room is accessed from an outside lodge porch. Lodge room rates are $79 - $99 per night.

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. In the winter we are covered in snow, and enjoy nordic skiing, sledding, ice skating and snow mobiling.

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....

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.

Continue into town and you will pass the most unusual RV/camping park in Colorado. The campsites are built among huge blocks of marble, which kids love to play on, and provide an eerie ghost-story backdrop at night. Up the hill is the historic Marble Charter School and Museum . The museum is on the third floor, and your knowledgeable docent will most likely be a student from this unusual school! Be sure to check out the Crystal Valley Echo, which is not only the Marble town newspaper, but it is published and produced by the Charter School students!

We like to say that the pristine, misdeveloped, rugged, star crossed town of Marble is what Aspen could have been if they'd played cards right!