DRO

Durango La Plata County Airport

ICAO KDRO37.1515°N 107.7540°W6,689 ft / 2,039 mMedium airport
On the map

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 · 1946–1988
NOV 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 PDF
03/21037° / 217° · LIT
LENGTH9,201 ft2,805 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
372K
375K
373K
378K
391K
198K
409K
367K
434K
499K
563K
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Routes

5 destinations · 1 country
Most 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 · country
Passengers563K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,062of 3,974 · #254 North America · #177 USLongest runway9,201 ft2,805 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,601of 29,823 · #345 North America · #255 USElevation6,689 ft2,039 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#658of 43,341 · #324 North America · #227 USAgeOpened 19462026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,744of 15,079 · =1,680 North America · =1,626 USRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2,325 US
Scale: 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 channels
ASOSASOS120.625
CNTRDENVER CNTR118.575
RDODENVER RDO122.350
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800