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A checklist of 20 great (non-14er) summits on Colorado’s Front Range
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just because you set your sights lower than 14,000 feet doesn’t mean you’re setting a low bar. No, these aren’t the highest mountains on Colorado’s Front Range. But they could be called just as quintessential…
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North Cheyenne Cañon to reopen Friday following roadway repairs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save North Cheyenne Cañon is set to reopen to the public Friday afternoon after heavy rain washed away parts of a road that led to the canyon, the city of Colorado Springs announced. The North Cheyenne Canyon Road has been repaired after heavy rain eroded roadway infrastructure,…
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Neighbors concerned about new open space in Colorado Springs
A draft plan for a new open space in Colorado Springs was recently presented, ending in applause from an audience foreseeing the next great escape around the city’s southwest mountains. Not all were happy. “Think about us please,” Sandie Gilliam pleaded to the crowd, referring to her fellow residents of the Broadmoor Bluffs neighborhood. The…
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Giving thanks to Colorado’s outdoors: Enthusiasts pick favorite destinations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The mountains outside our door. A more distant basecamp for adventure. A stretch of the Colorado Trail and newly public land waiting to be explored. These were some of the responses we heard to the question we ask around this time every year: What are…
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Giving thanks to Colorado’s outdoors: Enthusiasts pick favorite destinations
The mountains outside our door. A more distant basecamp for adventure. A stretch of the Colorado Trail and newly public land waiting to be explored. These were some of the responses we heard to the question we ask around this time every year: What are we most thankful for across this state’s great outdoors? It’s…
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Great hikes for fall colors close to Colorado’s big cities
Come fall, Colorado’s city dwellers are quick to swap the concrete for nature’s glow. Except that doesn’t always happen so quickly. One often travels great distances, to great displays across the Continental Divide. But one doesn’t have to. Here are some great hikes within about an hour’s drive of the state’s two biggest cities. Denver…
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Pikes Pick: Take a scenic drive down Gold Camp Road
When its a little too hot to go for a hike, try taking a drive along Gold Camp Road. With amazing views, tunnels and scenic lookouts, it makes for a relaxed activity where you can still enjoy the beauty of Colorado even during a heat wave. — Kelly Hayes, The Gazette
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Jones Park plan closer to approval; Colorado Springs trail enthusiasts push back
A long-awaited master plan for a long-debated park in Colorado Springs’ southwest mountains has gained initial approval. That’s against continued pushback. Ahead of considerations by Palmer Land Conservancy and El Paso County commissioners, the county’s parks board has unanimously approved a master plan for Jones Park. That’s the nearly 1,200 acres in the Bear Creek…
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A Colorado Springs writer of today reflects on Helen Hunt Jackson’s words of yesterday
Ahead of Red Rock Canyon opening in 2005 to be one of Colorado Springs’ favorite public grounds, Stewart Green was tasked with establishing climbing routes across the sandstone walls. This led him to naming some of the formations. One was the unmistakable behemoth appearing to submerge near the park’s center — “the whale,” Green called…
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Long-awaited plan taking shape for Colorado Springs’ Jones Park
A long-awaited master plan for a highly debated place of recreation and conservation in Colorado Springs’ mountains is closer to a finish line. El Paso County parks officials recently fielded questions from mountain bikers and motorcyclists about a proposed guiding document for the next decade of management at Jones Park, the nearly 1,200 acres in…