Tag: fishers canyon
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Master plan for Fishers Canyon Open Space set after narrow City Council vote
By the slimmest margin, the Colorado Springs City Council backed the proposed master plan to manage Fishers Canyon Open Space for the next decade. Fishers Canyon covers 343 acres of mountains and forests on the back end of the Broadmoor Bluffs neighborhood, including the eastern slope of Cheyenne Mountain. The city purchased the sprawling open space…
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New trails, open space plans, quarry reclamation: Colorado Springs parks goals for 2025
What’s on David Deitemeyer’s desk heading into the new year? “My desk is messy,” joked the senior administrator for the city of Colorado Springs’ Trails, Open Space and Parks (TOPS) program. “There’s a lot of great stuff going on this year.” A decision due this month from City Council will be “great” to some and…
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Vision emerges for new Colorado Springs open space, Fishers Canyon
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A vision is emerging for a new outdoor destination in Colorado Springs. City parks department officials recently held a public meeting to review two concepts for trails and development at Fishers Canyon Open Space, the 343 acres the city acquired in 2021. On the city’s…
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Vision emerges for new Colorado Springs open space, Fishers Canyon
A vision is emerging for a new outdoor destination in Colorado Springs. City parks department officials recently held a public meeting to review two concepts for trails and development at Fishers Canyon Open Space, the 343 acres the city acquired in 2021. On the city’s southwest side, the scenic woods and meadows rise behind the…
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New book by Cheyenne Mountain champion explores the curious slopes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Upon a visit to present-day Colorado Springs in 1863, the writer and explorer Fitz Hugh Ludlow remarked on a view that seemed underappreciated around town. “A mountain which I admire more than Pike’s Peak … is the grand Cheyenne,” he wrote. “There is a unity…
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New book by Cheyenne Mountain champion explores the curious slopes
Upon a visit to present-day Colorado Springs in 1863, the writer and explorer Fitz Hugh Ludlow remarked on a view that seemed underappreciated around town. “A mountain which I admire more than Pike’s Peak … is the grand Cheyenne,” he wrote. “There is a unity of conception in it unsurpassed in any mountain I have…