Rifle Garfield County Airport (KRIL) in Colorado will hold an open house Dec. 4, 2025, to get community input into KRIL’s developing Airport Layout Plan.
The plan will guide the airport for the next 20 years to “maximize airport use for the community and pilots who fly here, work here, and rely on the facility for firefighting, medical flights, or recreation,” airport officials said.
The airport’s plan is to “maximize what the airport currently has for future needs,” focusing on a new inventory of what is at the airport, what pilots use every day, technical use of the airport, and parking, airport officials said.
“The airport provides $80 million in annual economic impact to the community,” Rifle Garfield County Airport Director Sam Carver said. “We are one of the busiest general aviation airports in Colorado. We sell 2.5 million gallons of aviation gas and jet fuel a year and have nearly 19,000 landings.”
Multiple companies are currently building hangars, airport officials added, noting part of the plan is to specify where hangars can be built, as well as using county land for more parking space on the south side of the airport.
Another part of the plan is to expand helicopter landing areas to move rotor operations away from airplane operations.
One thing that is not in the plan is a new runway, as officials note there is not enough land for another runway.
The open house will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Following the open house, the plan will be finalized and sent to the FAA for review.
For more information: RifleAirport.com
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