Whether you are a visitor, looking to relocate, recently relocated, or are a long-time mountain resident, the Platte Canyon Area Chamber of Commerce (PCACC) welcomes you to "our little bit of paradise". While you enjoy the beautiful mountain scenery and historic sites, feel free to visit with local residents and business owners in our fast-growing small community.

Our mission is to encourage a healthy environment for our local businesses and our citizens by promoting new opportunities, supporting existing businesses, and encouraging pro-active legislation that will benefit our local economy. Although our mission is the promotion and development of local commerce, along with that goal lies great responsibility in protecting our quality of life.

So, welcome! Join hands with us as we move onward with pride in our past and hope and determination for an even brighter future.

Mountain Connection was created almost 18 years ago to support and enable nonprofits, in addition to being a positive publication about family and community. It continues to hold that mission dear today. In addition to nearly $92,000 in cold hard cash donated to nonprofits by this newspaper, Mountain Connection builds community and helps etch positive community identity by publishing local people writing positive articles about history, family, the environment and life in general.

We have monthly themes that our entire readership is invited to write about each month.

Additionally, Mountain Connection partners with the Conifer and Platte Canyon chambers to create their chamber directories. The directories also serve as community magazines. The Mountain Connection proposed this unique relationship in which the chambers and the newspaper are "partners." The newspaper sells and creates the ads and the magazine pages. The chambers prepare their membership lists. It is another way of supporting our com-munities and building positive identity in the Mountain Connection area. We are connectors making positive connections! All articles are written by local residents who donate their stories that are positive, entertaining or educational. There are no reporters on staff. We leave the “hard news” reporting to the community “news” newspaper. As a matter of fact, the Mountain Connection publisher actually encourages people to subscribe to the area’s “real” newspapers so the readers can be up to date about important news. Informed citizens make for a better community. It’s all about community! Mountain Connection is different from typical newspapers. Mountain Connection is a free inoculation of "positive" stories about and by local people—our neighbors—to every business and home in the newspaper’s circulation area. The Mountain Connection is mailed to about 20,000 homes and businesses from Genesee through Evergreen, Kittredge, Conifer, Morrison, Pine and Bailey. Check us out on the web at www.mtnconnection.com

Publisher/Owner Jacqueline B. Scott at 303-674-3701 email info@mtnconnection.com.