The Town of Carbondale is a home rule municipality located in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 6,434 at the 2020 United States Census. Carbondale is a part of the Glenwood Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The town is located in the Roaring Fork Valley, downstream from Aspen and upstream from the mouth of the Roaring Fork River at Glenwood Springs. The town proper sits on the south bank of the river, at the confluence of the Crystal River. Carbondale’s horizon is dominated by the 12,953 ft (3,952 m) tall Mount Sopris several miles to the south of town. It after that boasts a rodeo, the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo, held all Thursday night, 7:30-9:00 pm, from June 3rd-August 19th. Everything from bronc riding to a calf scramble is there, with goings-on such as hide racing and ribbon roping falling into the schedule.

Carbondale takes its pronounce from Carbondale, Pennsylvania, hometown of some of Carbondale’s in front settlers. Carbondale’s economy was initially agriculturally based. Farmers and ranchers capitalized upon open lands with citation to Carbondale to supply food for miners in genial Aspen, then a booming center of silver mining activity. Early in the 20th century, before the rise of industrial agriculture in Idaho, Carbondale’s primary agricultural product was potatoes. The legacy lives upon in Potato Day, an annual slip parade and cookout in Sopris Park. Despite the non-geologic origins of the town’s name, the Carbondale Place does really possess significant coal resources. Until the late 1980s Carbondale’s economy was primarily based on coal operations going on the Crystal River Valley. The coal mined from the area was favored for its high burning temperature, low sulphur content, and density. However, the coal deposits as a consequence contained significant amounts of methane gas. In 1981, a methane gas explosion killed 15 miners and by 1991 the mines closed by the side of permanently. The rise of Aspen as a skiing mecca and subsequent hyperinflation of its genuine estate prices has irritated a majority of its workers downvalley to extra towns taking into consideration Carbondale. Thus, especially before the 1980s, Carbondale has partly served as a bedroom community to Aspen. More recently Carbondale has seen a boom of second-home construction, arts and recreational amenities, and tourism as the area’s great quantity and renown has grown. A notable arts thing is the annual summer arts and music festival, Mountain Fair held in Sopris Park. The situation has annual attendance surrounded by 18,000 and 20,000 people exceeding the three days of which it is held, being approximately triple the population of Carbondale. KDNK is an FM radio station licensed to Carbondale.

At the 2020 United States Census, the town had a total Place of 1,294 acres (5.237 km), all of it land.