Tag: history
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Happy Trails: By Garden of the Gods, a historic bridge between great views
Driving on 30th Street in Colorado Springs, the view to the west demands attention: the red rock sanctuary of Garden of the Gods in the forefront of Pikes Peak. It’s easy to miss an intrigue on the opposite side of the street. Surely you’ve passed it — that short, cobblestone bridge nestled between grassy knolls. A…
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A cannibal, killer in the attic and headless chicken: Real-life horror stories of Colorado
Colorado, like the broader West, is rooted in myth. In legends that seem to grow larger as the years go on. But somewhere between the colorful narratives are truths, or half-truths. Stories stranger than fiction — and also more terrifying than any author could spin. Ahead of Halloween, what better time to return to these?…
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Historic trains and fall colors: A match made in Colorado heaven
Come fall in Colorado, many of us drive among the golden aspen trees. Others get out to hike. And others heed a certain, loud whistle that echoes through the forests, through time, along with a certain call: “All aboard!” For their annual showcase of the season, Gazette photographers took to Colorado’s historic train tracks —…
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Historic trains and fall colors: A match made in Colorado heaven
Come fall in Colorado, many of us drive among the golden aspen trees. Others get out to hike. And others heed a certain, loud whistle that echoes through the forests, through time, along with a certain call: “All aboard!” For their annual showcase of the season, Gazette/Courier photographers took to Colorado’s historic train tracks —…
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10 facts about aspen, Colorado’s fascinating tree of fall
It is the season of envy in Colorado. The all-too-brief time of year when we admire our forests in their finest states — awash in gold. It is, of course, aspen putting on the dazzling displays. This is our celebrated tree of fall, the quaking aspen so named for those leaves that quake or flicker…
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10 facts about aspen, Colorado’s fascinating tree of fall
It is the season of envy in Colorado. The all-too-brief time of year when we admire our forests in their finest states — awash in gold. It is, of course, aspen putting on the dazzling displays. This is our celebrated tree of fall, the quaking aspen so named for those leaves that quake or flicker…
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Idaho Springs’ new golden opportunity: scenic gondola and ‘world-class’ mountain biking
In early 2018 from her home in Idaho Springs, Mary Jane Loevlie was enjoying wine with a neighbor and looking up the mountainside from the Argo Mill and Tunnel, the historic tourist destination she owns. “Out of the blue, I said, ‘Gosh, I wonder if we could put a gondola up there,” Loevlie said. More…
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A look at 9 Colorado passes over the Continental Divide — and what to see on the drives
Call it the great separator, or the thing that unifies us as Coloradans. That’s the Continental Divide, or the Great Divide, so named for the mighty formation that separates our North American watersheds between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. In Colorado, we know it as the rugged wall between the Front Range and the Western…
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An immigrant’s dream is a famous, multi-generation diner in Denver | Craving Colorado
DENVER • One spring morning in 1936, after years of trying to track him down, federal agents finally delivered an illegal immigrant to a courtroom. He was a Greek man named Efstathios Armatas. For more than a decade he’d gone by Sam Andrews. That’s how the judge that day knew him: Sam of Sam’s No.…