Crested Butte Airpark
0CO2 · Crested Butte, Colorado · Gunnison County · map
Crested Butte Airpark is a private airport owned by Crested Butte Airpark Association, 3 miles southeast of Crested Butte, Colorado, 8,980 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 4,000 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 0CO2
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Crested Butte Airpark Association
- Elevation
- 8,980 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 4,000 × 40 ft | Asphalt | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 11: right-hand traffic pattern, fence 4 ft high 250 ft from the end
- Runway 29: private approach lights, pole 8 ft high 40 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Aircraft registered in Crested Butte from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Crested Butte, Colorado: 8 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Colorado.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided existing VERZUH-ROUSE airport is offly abnd and proposed verzuh airport is not established.
- +3000 feet MT srnd airport.
- Slopes 2 percent southeast; arrival uphill runway 29; departure downhill runway 11.
- 75 feet trees on hill 250 feet above runway; 300 feet L of centerline 1500 feet from threshold; 4:1 ratio.
- +5 feet SN bank alg runway edge durg winter.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.