The Other Side of Aspen is a 1978 American gay pornographic film produced by Falcon Studios, directed by Matt Sterling, starring Casey Donovan, Al Parker, and Dick Fisk.

In San Francisco, a skiing instructor (Jeff Turk) recounts to his friend (Mike Flynn) a particular incident that occurred during his recent visit to Aspen, Colorado.

While traveling to instruct two clients (Al Parker and Casey Donovan), he witnessed two men (Chad Benson and Dick Fisk) having sex in a cabin.

[2] Chuck Holmes founded Falcon Studios in 1972, launching the company by purchasing three short gay pornography films by director Matt Sterling and an adult mailing list for USD$4,200.

After filming concluded in Lake Tahoe, Holmes, Sterling, and Falcon co-founder Vaughn Kincey elected to shoot additional scenes of dialogue in San Francisco.

[16] The Other Side of Aspen was a major critical and commercial success upon its release, and was described by the TLA Entertainment Group as "one of the best gay adult films ever made.

[19][20] By 1993, 45,000 copies of The Other Side of Aspen had been sold, making it the best-selling gay pornography film at that time[21] and producing the highest revenues in Falcon's corporate history up to that point.

[11] Whitney Strub similarly argues that The Other Side of Aspen was "a harbinger of gay hardcore's emerging dominant modality," as the genre moved away from fetishistic material typical of the early- to mid-1970s, and towards "soft stylization" and "a more standardized masculinity.

"[26] Strub notes how the removal of the fisting scene from The Other Side of Aspen was part of a broader effort by Falcon beginning in the 1980s to pivot away from the fetish and kink videos it produced in the early 1970s; the company began to de-emphasize this content it its mail order catalogs before removing it entirely, a trend Strub notes was later exacerbated by "moralistic New Right bigotry" and "its internalized echoes in the scapegoating of leather, kink, and fisting communities" in the wake of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

[25] Michael Joseph Gross argues that the franchise has gone "mostly downhill", as "Falcon's ideal of male beauty has become transparently crafted" with "bodies that look increasing fictional," in contrast to the naturalistic appearance of the actors in the original 1978 film.