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The best Colorado campgrounds? We asked guidebook pros
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gil Folsom views Colorado’s outdoor craze from his home near Golden. “I live on the side of a mountain. I see I-70 in the distance,” he says. “When you look at the traffic going up…
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New book features 45 high alpine trail runs in Colorado — we asked for some favorites
As a teenager in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, Annalise Grueter could not believe the order of her cross country team coach. “We were going to be hiking/jogging a (13,000-foot mountain) for training that July day,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘What are we doing? This is a thing?’” Flash forward to today, running up mountains…
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11 reasons to be thankful for Colorado outdoors
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Around this time every year, we’re asking outdoorsy Coloradans to give thanks to the places they adore the most. Let their gratitude inspire your own (and tell us what you’re thankful for in the comments section at the end of the story): John Fielder, Summit…
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Meet the woman behind Colorado’s new 100-mountain record
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On her drive home after another ascent of 14,005-foot Mount of the Holy Cross, Andrea Sansone got a call from her boyfriend, Andrew Hamilton, who said a reporter was looking to interview her. “I was like, Why?” Sansone recalls. “Like, no one ever wants to…
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Flash flood warnings, closures for several Colorado burn scars
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Western Colorado saw flash flooding near several burn scars as rain and thunderstorms continued throughout the state Wednesday, causing I-70 to be closed for several hours. I-70 opened back up at around 8:20 p.m. on…
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Stargazing at Colorado’s otherworldly dunes, and the plight of dark skies beyond
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MOSCA • The campground opened for the season this month, and of course it was full. Of course people from near and far came for this certain spring awakening in Colorado’s most mystical realm. “A delight,” one camper called the celestial show over Great Sand…
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Your 2021 Colorado bucket list for outdoor adventure
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For better or for worse, the pandemic gave many of us more opportunities to achieve our outdoor goals. We crossed off much from our bucket lists in 2020. Yet still, Colorado never ceases to beckon. For your consideration this year: Pay respects to the ancestors…