Gunnison Crested Butte Regional Airport

ICAO KGUC38.5347°N 106.9346°W7,680 ft / 2,341 mMedium airport

Gunnison Crested Butte Regional Airport (IATA: GUC, ICAO: KGUC) is a medium airport in Gunnison, Colorado, United States. It opened in Aug 1947. It has 2 runways; the longest is 9,400 ft (2,865 m). In 2025 it handled 141 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1947–1947

AUG 1947

OpenedGunnison Crested Butte Regional Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

06/24074° / 254° · LIT

LENGTH9,400 ft2,865 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

17/35180° / 360°

LENGTH2,981 ft909 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEGrass

Passengers per year

2015–2025

68K

72K

56K

77K

103K

98K

117K

141K

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Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

Year-round1

DENDenver International AirportUnited States · United Express244 km152 mi

Seasonal4

DFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Airlines1,090 km677 mi DALDallas Love FieldUnited States · JSX (airline)1,108 km688 mi IAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · United Express1,426 km886 mi ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Express1,656 km1,029 mi

Most destinationsUnited Express 3American Airlines 1JSX (airline) 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GUC. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Gunnison–Crested Butte Regional Airport” (revision of 20 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers141K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,686of 3,974 · #379 North America · #250 US Longest runway9,400 ft2,865 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,539of 29,823 · =326 North America · =241 US Elevation7,680 ft2,341 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#321of 43,341 · #112 North America · #72 US AgeOpened 19472026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,942of 15,079 · =1,856 North America · =1,803 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 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

3 channels

AWOSAWOS 3135.075

CNTRDENVER CNTR125.350

UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.700