Telluride Regional Airport
Telluride Regional Airport
Telluride Regional Airport (IATA: TEX, ICAO: KTEX, FAA LID: TEX) is a public airport six miles west of Telluride, in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. It is owned by the Telluride Regional Airport Authority. At an elevation of 9,078 feet (2767 m) above sea level, it was the highest commercial airport in North America with scheduled passenger flights when Great Lakes Airlines resumed scheduled passenger service in December 2016; however, those flights ceased in March 2018. In August 2018, commercial service returned with the introduction of Boutique Air, and the airport remains the highest airfield in the U.S. with scheduled passenger flights, and the second highest overall airfield in the US behind Leadville Airport. Denver Air Connection is currently the only airline flying scheduled passenger flights from Telluride with daily nonstop flights to Denver and Phoenix. Denver Air operates the Fairchild Dornier 328JET into Telluride. The 328JET is one of the few regional jet airliners in service capable of operating at such high field elevations as TEX.
Location
37.954°N, 107.908°O · 2.765 m s. n. m. (9.070 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 3 Official publication
Approach
Common traffic (CTAF)
Automated weather
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
Airlines operating here · 1
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
Photo: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0 · view original
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). Telluride Regional Airport (TEX). Retrieved October 19, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TEX
MLA
“Telluride Regional Airport (TEX).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TEX. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Telluride Regional Airport (TEX).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TEX.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Telluride Regional Airport (TEX). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TEX (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Telluride Regional Airport (TEX)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-16},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TEX},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/TEX}},
urldate = {2026-10-19},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-19}
}Wikipedia
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