Tag: Southern Colorado
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Trails expanding at Colorado’s newest state park
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The possibilities for adventure are growing around one of southern Colorado’s most iconic mountains. Construction recently started on about 10 miles of new trail at Fishers Peak State Park — adding to the network that has steadily expanded at Colorado’s newest state park. Spanning more than…
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Southern Colorado ski area set to revive after long-awaited deal is finalized
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After years of contentious talks, a plan is in place for the next life of a southern Colorado ski area. Huerfano County commissioners recently approved a 40-year operating agreement with a nonprofit to run county-owned Cuchara Mountain Park, home to the old ski area that…
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‘The heart of Pueblo:’ A mural grows again along the Arkansas River
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One morning this spring, as dawn broke over the mountains in southern Colorado, Valrie Eisemann loaded her truck with paint and climbing gear and drove about 65 miles to her canvas: a concrete wall angling high above the Arkansas River. She arrived at her place…
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Soul of Sopris: Remembering a Colorado town now under water
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One day in 1970, Giuseppe Incitti took a pencil to paper and grieved the loss of his southern Colorado home. “Consider the town of Sopris finished,” he wrote, translated from his native Italian. “It will…
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Colorado 14er reopens through waiver requirement
Legal access is returning to a 14,000-foot peak in Colorado. Mount Lindsey is reopening to individuals through an online waiver, which Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) announced in a Facebook post Tuesday. The post included a link to the website, mountlindseywaiver.com, where the waiver can be electronically signed and kept before one embarks to the privately…
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2025 bucket list for Colorado adventure: 10 things to see and do
Hopefully for you, it’s the end of an adventurous year. And hopefully, it’s the start of another. It’s about time for a 2025 bucket list. Here’s what we’ve got in mind: Delight in Rocky Mountain winter rocky mountain national park Lucas Oubre, 5, left, and Logan Oubre, 10, pull their sleds to the top of…
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Private 14er in Colorado opens hiking reservations
Reservations have opened to hike a privately owned 14,000-foot mountain in southern Colorado. The mountain is “like no other,” reads the billing on Cielo Vista Ranch’s website: “Culebra Peak offers a unique climbing experience. Unlike any other fourteener in Colorado, hiking impacts are largely absent — Culebra is essentially ‘untrailed.’” Unlike every fourteener sitting on public…
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Long abandoned ski area in Colorado opens for season after major funds
Editor’s note: Cuchara Mountain Park’s “ski bus” started running over the weekend (Dec. 14-15) for skiers interested in a ride up the slopes of the formerly abandoned ski area. Nonprofit Panadero Ski Corp. will be selling $40 tickets on Saturdays and Sundays when conditions allow. If the saga of a southern Colorado ski area revival…
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Mixed reactions to draft plan for target shooting in Pike National Forest
Amid mixed support and opposition, officials have drafted a plan for managing recreational shooting across the national forest near Front Range populations. The plan has been years in the making — the “Integrated Management of Target Shooting Project,” the U.S. Forest Service calls it. The project was formally launched in 2021 to address what the agency…
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Iconic summit trail in southern Colorado making summer debut
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A trail to the top of an iconic mountain in southern Colorado is about to open for its first summer. Starting Aug. 1, the seasonal closure for raptor nesting on Fishers Peak’s upper cliffs will lift — granting hikers access to the chimney-like summit looming 9,600…