Tag: Trinidad
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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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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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More trails coming to Fishers Peak in southern Colorado
Trails are set to expand around an iconic mountain in southern Colorado. Fishers Peak State Park Manager Crystal Dreiling said the park’s next “trail package” would soon go out to bid — a project adding about 10 miles to the network that has steadily grown around the flat-top mountain overlooking Trinidad. The aim is to…
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U.S. Highway 6 closed over Loveland Pass
Snowy and dangerous conditions shut down U.S. Highway 6 over Loveland Pass Friday night. Heavy snow is moving through the mountains and could drop up to 10 inches at Loveland, according to the National Weather Service. Traffic cameras operated by the Colorado Department of Transportation show a messy, snow-covered roadway, and the transportation agency says…
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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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Lakeside camping in Colorado: A quick guide to 7 of the state’s best spots
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There’s nothing quite like opening the flap of your tent to the view of a lake, watching the rising sun’s warm glow dance across the water reflecting Colorado’s mountain majesty. Trappers Lake is the second largest natural lake in Colorado behind Grand Lake and sits…
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Summit trail to Fishers Peak could soon be realized
A highly anticipated trail project in southern Colorado could cross the finish line in the coming months. Fishers Peak State Park Manager Crystal Dreiling said builders will soon return to the mountain, where they’ll be “fine tuning and cleaning up” the majority of the summit trail roughed-in last fall before continuing the final three miles…
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Overlooked beauty, history and eats: Trinidad is a Colorado town to love in summer
It is an easy town to locate, impossible to miss at the southernmost end of Interstate 25 in Colorado. Trinidad’s identity, however, is much harder to pinpoint. Look around and you’ll see plenty of symbols of industries past and present. Walk up and down the red-brick Main Street, and you’ll come to understand a town…
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Denver mayoral candidate Trinidad Rodriguez announces public safety plan
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the shadow of the Denver Police Department headquarters at 1331 Cherokee St., mayoral candidate Trinidad Rodriguez — just like several of his counterparts in previous weeks —announced his public safety plan Thursday. Rodriguez is one of 17 candidates running for Denver Mayor in the…
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Wildlife officials searching for bear after attack near Trinidad
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are searching for a bear that attacked a woman near Trinidad on Friday. CPW said the bear swatted at the woman around 2 a.m. at the Monument Lake Resort, which is 37 miles west of Trinidad. The victim told wildlife…