Tag: Victor
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Cripple Creek Ice Festival adds more days to popular event
Ice carving is art, pure and simple. And that’s why so many are so enamored with the long-running, popular Cripple Creek Ice Festival. This year’s event will offer even more opportunities for the public to partake, as the festival will run almost every day from Saturday through Feb. 23, minus Tuesday, when the town will…
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Dambo’s latest massive troll installation takes shape in Victor: ‘It’s the perfect spot’
The “troll bubble” is Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo’s happy place. The real world melts away when he’s inside the invisible cocoon of creativity. That currently includes his twin sons turning 1 year old on Saturday, occupancy issues with his home in Denmark, and having less than two months to achieve his goal of building…
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Move over, Isak Heartstone: Colorado is getting a second giant troll sculpture
In folklore, mean hungry trolls live under bridges. In the 21st century, human trolls lie in wait as internet agitators. Throughout history, the creatures have been known to be big or small, ugly or cute, contrarian or charmer. But the Victor troll, which will start to take shape on Friday, will be a tongue-in-cheek lifesaver…
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A look at 8 ghost towns in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save They are abandoned but not forgotten. They are the forefronts of classic Colorado images, destination reminders of the bold pioneers that built this state. One might say their spirits linger across the mountains — their shouts and cries still heard in the night between cabins…
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A hotel of horror in an old, remote mining town of Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VICTOR • The Victorian building sat on the corner vacant for many years, like so many buildings in this ghostly quiet town in the hills like a rolling graveyard, scattered with splintered wood and rusted metal of shafts and A-frames and other mining skeletons. In…
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Looping through relics of Pikes Peak past, this trail is ‘a treasure trove of history’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VICTOR — It’s best to go on the trail with a poem. The words are found in a commemorative book from 1993, celebrating 100 years of this once mighty gold camp. The relics from those days still stand, those towering headframes along the Vindicator Valley…
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Colorado’s state sport? Burro racing. Here’s where you can catch the races this summer.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s not baseball. Not football. Not hockey. Not basketball, cycling, golf or pickleball (though that last one sure is getting popular). It’s not even mountain climbing. Colorado’s state sport? Burro racing. The technical term is…
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Colorado has 2 new national scenic byways. Here’s a look at all 13
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Coloradans know the state’s beauty to be endless, though the extent to which it is reflected in one federal record is limited. That record, however, is expanding. Two long stretches of Colorado road have been added to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s list of national…
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Colorado towns offer holiday lighting displays on historic mine headframes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Many holiday traditions will look vastly different this year, but one will stay the same. The annual Holiday Headframe Lighting in Victor and Cripple Creek will come ablaze every night from Friday through Jan. 1, providing some much-needed comfort in the wake of so many…