Author: Bill Radford

I’ve seen a variety of fences in the country – from white picket to barbed wire – but the fence in front of J.B. Burgtorf’s place is one of a kind. It’s lined with bicycles. “You’d be amazed by how many people stop and just take pictures of that fence,” Burgtorf says. But the fence…

Last summer, when I interviewed horse trainer Anna Blake about the special bond between women and horses, she mentioned her parents leaving her on top “of a big, gray mare” in place of a babysitter when she was a little girl. I didn’t sense the dark current that flowed through that childhood memory. But Blake…

In writing a column on the 100-year-old barn along Judge Orr Road in Falcon, I became curious about the man for whom the road was named: Judge James A. Orr. The property where the barn stands once belonged to Orr. The column on the barn spurred an email from Cathie Orr Sandbach, Orr’s granddaughter, thanking…

I was raised in the Midwest – a land of lakes, rivers and creeks – so I’m always excited to find an oasis on the Colorado prairie. At times, those discoveries have come courtesy of El Paso County’s parks system. Last summer, I stumbled upon Homestead Ranch Regional Park, a 450-acre property at the edge…