Colorado Springs Gazette

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

Updated 1 month 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 2 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 4 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 4 months ago

North Cheyenne Cañon Park, Starsmore Center celebrate milestone anniversaries

Updated 8 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 9 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...