Colorado Springs Gazette

High in the sky: Rare air awaits atop state’s tallest peaks

Updated 3 months ago

No 14,000-foot peak could be called easy. As we heard once from Colorado Fourteeners Initiative executive director Lloyd Athearn: “Understand that these are extremely high...

Trail Talk: Answer the call to Colorado’s great outdoors

Updated 3 months ago

By Susan DaviesSpecial to The Gazette If you bike, hike, snowboard or ski, it’s likely you’ve suffered a hard fall at least once. Your response...

Colorado, but with a coastline: How visiting Iceland can evoke a familiar vibe

Updated 5 months ago

A lot of people came up to me after I’d returned from a weeklong trip to Iceland and asked: “How’d it go?” Or, “How was...

PHOTOS: Bighorn Sheep relax on Waterton Canyon Trail

Updated 6 months ago

North Cheyenne Cañon Park, Starsmore Center celebrate milestone anniversaries

Updated 10 months ago

In 1885, Colorado Springs voters approved the first bond issue in the city’s history, for the purchase of a 640-acre piece of land previously owned...

6 mountain communities increase lodging taxes, 2 reject the tax hike

Updated 11 months ago

Six mountain communities across Colorado voted on Tuesday to raise their lodging taxes after the state legislature passed a bill allowing counties to triple such...