Tag: Woodland Park
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Forest Service bans recreational shooting across much of Pike National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service has announced major changes to recreational shooting in one of the Front Range’s most popular national forests. Supervisor Ryan Nehl recently finalized a plan several years in the making to address what land managers have called “unsustainable” gunfire across Pike National Forest, encompassing El Paso, Teller, Douglas and Park counties. The…
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Cutting your Christmas tree in Colorado? Make a plan now
It’s not the plastic one from a box or the real one for sale in a parking lot that some Coloradans seek, but rather that Christmas tree waiting to be cut in a memory-making adventure. Now is the time to make a plan. The U.S. Forest Service recently announced tree cutting permits for sale, applying…
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Questions remain two years after murder-suicide of popular Charis Bible College couple
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At the big-boy age of 8, the oldest son of Adrianna Trujillo is a star in club baseball. Her 7-year-old daughter recently received two awards in school and lost another tooth. The baby of the…
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‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ deal done for open space near Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A “once-in-a-lifetime” deal is done for an open space west of Colorado Springs. “Once in a lifetime” is how the city of Woodland Park recently described its closing on 120 acres of rolling aspen and pine called Avenger Open Space. The announcement officially completes a…
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A ‘straight-up cowboy town’: Longtime western store in Woodland Park harks back to nearly forgotten past
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WOODLAND PARK • On quiet days like these in her family’s nearly 60-year-old western store, it’s easy for Merry Jo Larsen to look out the window, to look just past the main street traffic, and reminisce. She points across the street, to the vacant park…
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Developer seeks to relocate Woodland Park’s memorial cog car; local family opposes the move
Few things are more unstoppable than a train in motion. The family of the late Duane Carter is hoping that a parked one may prove to be unmovable. The source of the controversy is Memorial Cog Car #15, now named “Myrna” after Carter’s late wife and the mother of the Carter children, Susan (Carter) Ball, Steven…
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8 places to camp with a rocky view in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There’s nothing quite like crawling out of your tent to Colorado’s cool, crisp mountain air and watching the sunrise color some awe-inspiring view. Most inspiring? Perhaps the sight of some imposing rock that makes you feel small. Here we take a look at some camping…
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While aspens steal the show in Colorado, this native tree also delivers fall colors
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Come fall in Colorado, aspen gets all the love. But yellow isn’t the only color in the hilly palette. However short lived and uncertain the display, it’s all the more reason to appreciate the underappreciated native that is Gambel oak. For fall colors, Pikes Peak…
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Construction on Charis Bible College student housing starts same day ministry donates $250,000 to city
WOODLAND PARK • Construction on apartments for Charis Bible College students started Thursday on the nearly 500-acre Andrew Wommack Ministries campus in Woodland Park, the same day the organization presented a “goodwill” donation of $250,000 to the city following a heated community dispute over the student-housing project. Each 40-bed complex will cost an estimated $6.5 million…
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In Woodland Park the doughnuts are larger than life, so are the stories | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WOODLAND PARK • Michael Sturdevant always marvels at the world map on the wall. Every corner is covered by pins, a reminder that people from everywhere have made their way to this little blue house in the little town up the mountain pass from Colorado…