Author: By Seth Boster [email protected]

Colorado Springs cyclists: Mark your calendars for March 25. That’s when the city’s seventh-year bike swap is set to return to SoccerHaus, 4845 List Drive. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., riders can shop for a set of wheels or odds and ends for the season ahead. According to organizer Gabe Alvarado, around 50 individuals…

It’s about time for those hiking boots to get messy. That’s if you’re following guidance of land managers and ambassadors during the spring, when snow melts and trails get wet. The Colorado Springs parks department has been known to post signs at trailheads warning of muddy conditions. “Hike through, not around, muddy areas,” they have…

PARK COUNTY • They call it singing. They being the people who spend their days around one of the biggest sheets of ice found in the mountains between Colorado Springs and Denver. The groaning, creaking, booming — that’s the ice singing, they say. “A lot of people find it very creepy, but it’s actually the…

People concerned about the future of recreation and conservation across the Pikes Peak region are invited next week to make their voices heard during a series of sessions. Meetings are set Monday through Saturday for areas of Colorado Springs, Woodland Park, Cripple Creek and around Cañon City. These are part of what’s being called the…

Cross-country skiers in western Colorado are celebrating a new place to play. They were at a ribbon-cutting this month for a Nordic trail system spanning 8-plus miles through pine and aspen outside Montrose. That was after the U.S. Forest Service authorized the network situated near 9,000 feet on the Uncompahgre Plateau. The trails “offer a…

GEORGETOWN • On a Saturday morning, traffic crawls along Interstate 70 through the mountains, those drivers on their way to the ski slopes. Their heads turn to a frozen lake — to the scene of a much more obscure wintertime activity, but one perhaps just as quintessential Colorado. As a national trade magazine put it…

No list should determine satisfaction in Colorado’s outdoors. That should be more so determined by spontaneity, by those unexpected moments around the turn of any trail we might take. But goals are good, along with ideas. Consider these for your new year: Grand escape Grand Lake gets lots of love in the summer; it’s a…

With the new year comes a cheaper way to access Colorado’s state parks. As previously approved by legislation, a $29 Keep Colorado Wild Pass will be added to vehicle registrations in 2023 unless drivers opt out in the process online or in person. The pass will grant entry to the 42 state parks at a…

Colorado’s longest-running ski area has opened a new attraction. Tubing is now available not far from Howelsen Hill’s legendary, Olympian-molding ski jumps. A “thrilling course and new lighted lift” have been arranged near the base established in 1915, in walking distance of downtown Steamboat Springs. Discounted state parks pass now available to Coloradans through vehicle…

Keepers of record achievements in the outdoor world have announced their greatest feats of 2022. And it’s a Coloradan with the top honor. Fastest Known Time’s annual polling of athletes and enthusiasts resulted in Andrea Sansone earning FKT of the Year. That was for the Golden woman’s record push on the cult classic line known…