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Press Releases

Medicine Waters Storytellers

Join the annual Medicine Waters Rendezvous and Living History weekend at the Snow Mountain Ranch YMCA of the Rockies from August 6^th through 10th. Don’t miss the authentic trading tents, encampments mountain man activities and nightly living history demonstrations and tours. Enjoy family fun in a genuine mountain man camp with a working blacksmith shop, black powder demonstrations and historic reenactments.

 January 3, 2008

Presently, the Property Tax Administrator of the State of Colorado is reviewing the YMCA of the Rockies' application for a charitable exemption for Estes Park Center, Snow Mountain Ranch and Camp Chief Ouray.

Once their ruling has been made, we will update the press and this website.

Spokespeople: Kent Meyer and Laurie Van Horn, 970-586-4444.