Over an $8.50 pint of craft beer from Aspen Brewing Company, which is comparable to what I pay at home in Chicago, I realized that Aspen, Colo., is not expensive by big-city standards.
The Economic Research Institute, which compiles financial data for public and private organizations, pegs the cost of living in Aspen at 51 percent higher than the average in the United States, a little less than a city like Seattle.
As a professionally penny-pinching traveler, I try to avoid paying urban prices in the mountains.
In the summer in Aspen, apart from my weakness for microbrews, I didn’t have to.
Cycling, if you can avoid expensive rentals, is a bargain.
Persons:
Parks
Organizations:
Aspen Brewing Company, Aspen, Economic Research Institute, Prada, Parks beckon
Locations:
Chicago, Colo, Aspen, United States, Seattle