Tag: san luis valley
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CIA website features report of “frightening” UFO sighting that occurred in Colorado
For many years, residents and visitors of Colorado’s mysterious and vast San Luis Valley have claimed to witness odd and unexplained phenomena taking place in the night sky. One of those ‘events’ was apparently deemed notable enough to be published on the C.I.A. website. That document captures an article titled ‘Pair of Pueblo Youths Photograph…
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Pikes Pick: Cumbres & Toltec offering Dark Sky Train into San Luis Valley
Dark skies, stars and a train ride. It’s giving perfect autumn vibes. Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is offering a Dark Sky Train on Saturday and Oct. 3. Passengers will travel along the Colorado and New Mexico border and into the San Luis Valley, where they’ll stop at Big Horn Wye, a location unreachable by…
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’12 Days of Colorado’: Celebrating the state’s natural gifts, verse by verse, this holiday season
A “true love” is the gift-giver of a carol we sing every holiday season. Colorado’s gift-giving, meanwhile, is year-round — and the gifts are many more than a dozen. But sure, we’ll call it “The 12 Days of Colorado.” And we’ll even match the rhythm and rhymes of the old song. We’ll walk you through…
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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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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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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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‘The quirky lovechild of a bicycle and train:’ The railbike revolution is underway in Colorado
They were referred to as “velocipedes,” an early French term for bicycles. They were also called handcars, these people-powered transports that indeed looked very much like bikes atop the tracks in the 19th-century heyday of American railroading. “They were used as maintenance vehicles,” says Robert Harte. “Instead of taking a whole steam engine out ……
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From harsh rituals to hard-earned play, legends grow in this Colorado canyon
SAGUACHE COUNTY • Fields of crops and sage sprawl toward the Sangre de Cristo peaks in one direction, the San Juans in another, their wonders seemingly far away on this lonely, dusty stretch of U.S. 285. But here in the San Luis Valley, wonders tend to appear out of nowhere. There was Bob D’Antonio in…
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Annual beach scene starting to form in Colorado
Colorado’s most curious beach is starting to take shape. As April was turning to May, Medano Creek was making its annual appearance at the foot of North America’s highest sand dunes. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve reported “a shallow, gentle flow,” with initial snowmelt yielding “braided channels” running 20 feet wide and an…