Tag: south slope recreation area
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Pikes Peak’s scenic South Slope opening for season — with changes
This summer presents a rare opportunity to enjoy a rarely-visited side of Pikes Peak. South Slope Recreation Area opened for the summer on May 29 — welcoming back permit-holding sightseers, hikers and anglers who come for the remote, trout-teeming fisheries reached at the end of a rugged drive outside Victor. The experience will be different…
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Why access remains restricted at this ‘amazing gem’ in Colorado — despite it opening to the public 10 years ago
The scene comes back to Mary Burger like a dream: crystal-clear waters tucked between stream-lined meadows and forests and Pikes Peak’s granite shoulders, rising and falling around this glacier-carved basin above 10,000 feet. This is Pikes Peak’s south slope, where Burger led volunteers a lifetime ago as a founder of nonprofit Friends of the Peak.…
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Why access remains restricted at this ‘amazing gem’ in Colorado — despite it opening to the public 10 years ago
The scene comes back to Mary Burger like a dream: crystal-clear waters tucked between stream-lined meadows and forests and Pikes Peak’s granite shoulders, rising and falling around this glacier-carved basin above 10,000 feet. This is Pikes Peak’s south slope, where Burger led volunteers a lifetime ago as a founder of nonprofit Friends of the Peak.…
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Less-explored waters high on Pikes Peak set to open for season
A hidden chain of lakes high on Pikes Peak is set to open for the season. The gate is expected to be lifted June 13 at South Slope Recreation Area. That’s the remote, high-altitude area that opened 10 years ago to fanfare among anglers, hikers and mountain bikers who long sought the reservoirs tightly guarded…