DRO
Durango La Plata County Airport
Durango La Plata County Airport (IATA: DRO, ICAO: KDRO) is a medium airport in Durango, Colorado, United States. It opened in Nov 1946. It has one runway, 9,201 ft (2,805 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 563 thousand passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1946–1988NOV 1946
OpenedDurango La Plata County Airport opens.
19 JAN 1988
DisasterTrans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286.9 killed
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF03/21037° / 217° · LIT
LENGTH9,201 ft2,805 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2015–2025372K
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Routes
5 destinations · 1 countryMost destinationsUnited Express 2American Eagle 2United Airlines 1American Airlines 1FedEx Express 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DRO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Durango–La Plata County Airport” (revision of 16 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
4 channelsASOSASOS120.625
CNTRDENVER CNTR118.575
RDODENVER RDO122.350
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800