About Colorado Central Magazine

Colorado Central is a regional monthly magazine founded in 1994 by Martha and Ed Quillen of Salida, Colorado. In February 2009 it was purchased by Mike Rosso, also of Salida, thus relieving the Quillens of the monthly deadline they’ve been facing for 15 years as well as providing them the opportunity to give their home a thorough cleaning.

Now Mike has taken on the monthly deadlines, and everything else. Please give him a head’s up before dropping by so he can at least clear a path for you.

Our goal is to publish an interesting and informative magazine which builds a sense of place, a regional community, and a local culture in Central Colorado and the San Luis Valley.

We like good writing about the places we care about, and we’re blessed that there are many good writers in this part of the world.

The best way to understand the magazine is to read it. If you’re in our territory, your local bookstore should have copies for sale at $2.95 (both Tattered Covers’ in Denver also carry it).
A list of distributors can be found here.

You can also peruse our archives on the website which date back to 1994. You can find them on the navigation bar to the right.

Most publications in Colorado mountain tourist zones have free distribution, while we charge. It isn’t entirely out of greed. Our theory is that if you have free distribution, then all your income must come from advertisers, and that means their interest has to come first in making publishing decisions.

We try for a 50-50 income ratio, so that subscribers’ interests are just as important. The Latin roots of “subscribe” mean “underwrite,” and we like to think of our subscribers as the people who truly “underwrite” this enterprise.

We try not to think of our subscribers as a demographic collection of purchasing habits, so we do not collect such information.