Tag: bear creek regional park
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Olympic track medalist Paul Chelimo calls ‘beautiful’ Colorado Springs home as he navigates transition to marathon distance
On a quintessential fall October morning, Bear Creek Regional Park was alive with walkers, bikers, and runners enjoying the park’s loop trails under the backdrop of the Front Range. Besides the sounds of chirping birds and the chatter of park users, the crunch of shoes on crushed stone could be heard at a rhythmic, fast…
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Happy Trails: Scenic tour expands with new Colorado Springs trail
Bear Creek Regional Trail Dan Allen is a trail project specialist with the Colorado Springs parks department who recently finished building a new segment in Bear Creek Cañon Park. We were walking with him along that path, in the hills east of the popular Section 16 trailhead along Gold Camp Road. “I feel like there’s…
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Seven little headstones: How a ‘commonly overlooked’ cemetery keeps a part of Colorado Springs history alive
In a state with its fair share of abandoned towns and byways, victims of the historic boom and bust cycle and the transience of Western expansion, a disused gravesite in Colorado is not a rarity. Rather than being left behind geographically, though, the Pauper’s Cemetery in Colorado Springs has been left behind in memory and…
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New trail in Colorado Springs aimed at accessibility, new connections
In the grassy hills beyond Bear Creek Nature Center, people with disabilities in recent years had been riding a small, wheeled transport before being forced to turn around. The rock walls and promontories of city of Colorado Springs-owned Bear Creek Cañon Park loomed ahead. But the scenery was unavailable to these explorers. This was around…
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Happy Trails: A splendid loop around Colorado Springs’ Bear Creek Regional Park
Not far from the heart of Colorado Springs, Bear Creek Regional Park is a lot of things. It’s a place to let the furry companions run free (the dog park is super popular). A place of playgrounds for the kids and open fields for the whole family. A place for gardening. But more than anything,…
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Colorado Springs trail project aimed at new connections, possibilities for Trackchairs
The city of Colorado Springs and El Paso County parks departments have collaborated on a project aimed at improving trail accessibility and connectivity at a beloved recreation hub. Set to start this spring, trail construction and realignment will be focused in an area where the county’s Bear Creek Regional Park blends with the city’s Bear…