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I've got a job interview tomorrow morning and I'm hoping someone can provide some inside scoop on the town, it's inhabitants, and other such things. My previous search through google/campfire proved positive, albeit google street view was scary/humbling/interesting.
Thanks!
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I used to elk hunt there every year. If snow comes during the season you have a tag for, elk everywhere. No snow in the higher elevations then there are also no elk to harvest. The hunting seasons, when I was there, turned a rather small ranching community into a bustle of activity with Orange clad hunters from many different states converging. Lots of late season elk cow tags given. The Holiday Inn there had, when I was going there 20 or so years ago, a walk in cooler for the animals taken by the hunters staying there, and was dog friendly.
Countryside looked to me to be mostly sagebruss with a few grassy valleys (Migration routes) and some hill ranges that held elk almost all of the time. Surrounded by a couple of large ranches with good guided elk hunting opportunities.
Seemed to me that the economic base's were ranching, mining, and a bit of tourism. But, I could easily have missed one or more and it has been a long time now.
I would love to find another pay to hunt private land deal that I could get onto in that region, those were some fun hunts! Elk Sniping at its best.
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I've got a job interview tomorrow morning and I'm hoping someone can provide some inside scoop on the town, it's inhabitants, and other such things. My previous search through google/campfire proved positive, albeit google street view was scary/humbling/interesting.
Thanks! Only went through Craig once, circa '82ish.. And I thought the same thing - scary main drag indeed.. Looked almost like a ghost town - saw nobody, but felt eyes on me the entire time I drove through.. IIRC it's not far from the old Climax mine.. I'm sure it's a lot different now so I wish you luck sir..
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I hunted deer there in the late 70's a few times and, frankly, missed (literally) opportunities at toad mule deer as a finger pullin' 7 Mag dumazz high school kid. All I remember was there wasn't much but hunters at that time of the year.
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It's my home town, now I live in Meeker, just south on 13. Check out OLD WEST HUNTING, with Ted Myers. He's a personal friend, an honest guy, though his place is in Routt County. Craig isn't the town I grew up in, but it's one of the best ones in CO, for having some size.
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While I'm at it- Craig changed very much in the 70s- I left when the first stack was up on the power plant. Much larger percentage of "seedier" folks than there used to be. But, having lived in 5 different states before coming back to the general area, I'll say there are still plenty of fine folks there, and it beats a lot of anywhere else.
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I've got a job interview tomorrow morning and I'm hoping someone can provide some inside scoop on the town, it's inhabitants, and other such things. My previous search through google/campfire proved positive, albeit google street view was scary/humbling/interesting.
Thanks! I've been there, and to AL. I can't imagine this even being a question; I'd already be packing my stuff.
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Craig has grown into a decent small city. However, if you need more in the way of shopping, medical care, etc., it's a long way to anywhere else with more of those things. Outdoor opportunities abound, though, if those are important to you.
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I've bowhunted elk north of Craig since the late 80s. It's a nice little town and Steamboat ain't too far if you need something a bit larger.
I love that area. Go for it.
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I love that area a lot, but it's what somebody else said. Also kind of like northern arizona, new mexico. It's fine until you need medical help, then it's oh oh time.
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Even without decent medical facilities, I'd move to the Steamboat/Hayden/Craig corridor in a second if I could. You've got outstanding fishing in the Yampa, and are in the arguably best 100 mile area in Colorado to get an elk. Probably won't be a NM or AZ monster, but it will feed you and your family for the year.
If I ever hit it big that area of Colorado is on my short list.
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It seems like it would be a little slow for a youngster.
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Climax Mine ain't anywhere near Craig. I'm driving through Craig right now.
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Craig has a brand-new hospital; one of the big-wigs on the board also happens to be one of the area's best outfitters. Craig isn't Grand Junction, thank heaven, but it's a pretty going concern, for a relatively low population density. What folks from elsewhere don't grasp about NW CO is the VAST amount of PUBLIC LAND- Rio Blanco County, which neighbors Moffat to the south, is 70% public land.
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I was wondering the same. Dick Dodds maybe?
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Had friend who was an Elk guide there. Another friend owned a furniture store there. Have been there many times. I worked for the company that owned the coal mine that supplied the coal for the power plant and visited there many times when I was working in Denver. I really like the area but it s been many years since there. Elk is definitely one of the drawing cards.
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The bigwig-no insult intended- is Don Myers. The Gil-Mar Ranch, up Williams Fork out of Hamilton. He has run highly successful hunts on his own and leased property, for many years.
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Hey, zimhunter- was your furniture store-owner Bill L?
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I had the opportunity to use the Craig Hospital ER last year. Nice folks , small hospital, and not much high tech equipment.
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