Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Telluride, CO

Telluride is a home rule town that is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County, Colorado.

The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains, sitting in a box canyon at an elevation of about 8,750 feet, with Bridal Veil Falls at the canyon's head.

The first mining claim in the mountains above Telluride was made in 1875, and the town was founded in 1878 as Columbia.

Columbia has been the seat of San Miguel County since the county was created in 1883; the town was incorporated on February 10, 1887, and changed its name to Telluride a few months later, taking its name from telluride ores of gold and silver even though gold telluride minerals were never actually found in the mountains nearby.

In June 1889, Butch Cassidy robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride of $24,580, his first major recorded crime.

The Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, built near Telluride in 1891 by L. L. Nunn and George Westinghouse, was the first successful demonstration of long-distance transmission of industrial-grade alternating current power, predating the Westinghouse plant at Niagara Falls by four years.

The town population was 2,607 at the 2020 United States census.

There were 1,207 households in Telluride at the 2020 census, and 46.7% of its 2,265 housing units were vacant.

Telluride's free gondola, the only one of its kind in North America, connects the town with Mountain Village and reaches an elevation of 10,540 feet at the San Sophia station.

Telluride has hosted the Telluride Bluegrass Festival since 1974, the Telluride Film Festival since 1974, and the Mountainfilm documentary film festival since 1979.