Tag: Colorful Colorado
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An overlooked town of hot springs, and more than meets the eye | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS • Drivers veering off Interstate 70 go up and over Berthoud Pass to meet the youngest addition to a storied, once-isolated land. Winter Park Resort joined Grand County to forever change it. Should drivers continue on U.S. 40, they’ll meet Fraser, where…
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‘It shouldn’t even exist:’ Living the sweet life in Palisade | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PALISADE • There’s an old saying here. Mothers and grandmothers say it to their babies before they leave for college or take a job far away or otherwise feel finished with small-town life. If you don’t take any dirt, they say, you’ll come back. Apparently…
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In Colorado desert, 65-foot-tall tank offers otherworldly experience | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In Rangely, Colo., a 65-foot tank once built to store water has been converted into a musical oasis for musicians and experimental sound artists. The tank, known as the Center for Sonic Arts, is now a recording studio and music venue. (Video by Skyler Ballard)…
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Can the dream of Silverton prevail into the future?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SILVERTON • Patrick Clute is an outsider here. He knows his place. But he couldn’t help but disagree with a lady he came by on his walk this morning, a longtime resident. She complained about the issue that was once again front-page news this morning:…
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Can the dream of Silverton prevail into the future? | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SILVERTON • Patrick Clute is an outsider here. He knows his place. But he couldn’t help but disagree with a lady he came by on his walk this morning, a longtime resident. She complained about…
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Was the teddy bear born in Colorado?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GLENWOOD SPRINGS • At the Hotel Colorado gift shop called Legends, teddy bears range in price from $20 to $40, the most expensive of which wears an old-style vest and spectacles on the bridge of his nose, resembling the folk hero president. Near the back…
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Lions, tigers, bears roam in northeastern Colorado — and a massive mission grows larger
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colo., is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating people about the captive wildlife crisis in America. The 789 acre-sanctuary is home to 400-plus lions, tigers, bears and other animals. (Video by Skyler Ballard) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “LIFE…
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From underground, typewriters rise thanks to man and bird | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GLENWOOD SPRINGS • It’s easy to stroll Grand Avenue, spot the overhead sign for Raymond’s Office Machines and Supplies and wonder where Raymond is. From the sidewalk, the storefront is for a chic boutique. But…
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24 tons of (tasty?) testicles served at Colorado bar | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SEVERANCE • Folks here have a tradition when it comes to Rocky Mountain oysters: Don’t tell the kids what they are. “They’re chicken fingers,” James Anderson recalls telling his 6-year-old daughter back when. Chicken fingers,…
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Out on the plains northeast of Colorado Springs, a whimsical refuge for car and man | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ELBERT COUNTY • The destination is as unexpected as the shifting landscape: rolling fields before thick woods, then barren again, then the pines again. It’s as if the road is going nowhere, until the town…