Author: By Seth Boster [email protected]
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20 curiosities along Interstate 25 in Colorado — from ancient cone, to ‘Batman building,’ to Natural Fort
Coming from New Mexico or Wyoming, Interstate 25 travelers into Colorado are greeted by that familiar sign. “Welcome to Colorful Colorado.” Travel the extent of that interstate running through the Front Range, and it’s easy to understand the moniker. From Fishers Peak in Trinidad, to Greenhorn Mountain closer to Pueblo, to Castle Rock and the…
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20 curiosities along Interstate 25 in Colorado — from ancient cone, to ‘Batman building,’ to Natural Fort
Coming from New Mexico or Wyoming, Interstate 25 travelers into Colorado are greeted by that familiar sign. “Welcome to Colorful Colorado.” Travel the extent of that interstate running through the Front Range, and it’s easy to understand the moniker. From Fishers Peak in Trinidad, to Greenhorn Mountain closer to Pueblo, to Castle Rock and the…
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The rise, fall and resurrection of Colorado’s ‘Castle of the Plains’
LA JUNTA • It is out near a crossroads in southeast Colorado, somewhere between parched fields and dusty towns abandoned by industries that built them, between struggling farms and crumbling homes and wide-open grasslands that go unchanged, preserved, appearing just as they did in the days of wagons over the Santa Fe Trail. It is…
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Colorado study confirms: Outdoors were saving grace at start of pandemic
A new study out of the University of Colorado at Boulder provides empirical proof to claims heard widely at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic: The outdoors were a guard against anguish. Researchers surveyed 1,200 residents around Denver and rated depression and anxiety “scores” to draw correlations with time in green spaces. Among those who…
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Colorado study confirms: Outdoors were saving grace at start of pandemic
A new study out of the University of Colorado at Boulder provides empirical proof to claims heard widely at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic: The outdoors were a guard against anguish. Researchers surveyed 1,200 residents around Denver and rated depression and anxiety “scores” to draw correlations with time in green spaces. Among those who…
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Heaping plates of pasta, singing waiters delight at this Italian restaurant in southern Colorado | Craving Colorado
TRINIDAD • Pardon the silence. Frank Cordova is busy. It’s hard to find time to sing between filling gaps in his staff, notably in the kitchen. The 78-year-old founder and owner of Rino’s Italian is cooking this night. He’s dashing from the back to the front to greet guests, dashing back and forth as if…
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Singing and feasting at this Italian restaurant in southern Colorado | Craving Colorado
TRINIDAD • Pardon the silence. Frank Cordova is busy. It’s hard to find time to sing between filling gaps in his staff, notably in the kitchen. The 78-year-old founder and owner of Rino’s Italian is cooking this night. He’s dashing from the back to the front to greet guests, dashing back and forth as if…
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Approaching 90, Breckenridge’s Trygve Berge enjoys everlasting ski glory
BRECKENRIDGE • Trygve Berge doesn’t dwell on limitations, but he’s aware of them. He’s aware that today is a not-so-good day for skiing. It’s a good day for everyone else at the ski area he co-founded 60 winters ago — the snow keeps piling up out there — and that’s part of why it’s a…
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Approaching 90, Breckenridge’s Trygve Berge enjoys everlasting ski glory
BRECKENRIDGE • Trygve Berge doesn’t dwell on limitations, but he’s aware of them. He’s aware that today is a not-so-good day for skiing. It’s a good day for everyone else at the ski area he co-founded 60 winters ago — the snow keeps piling up out there — and that’s part of why it’s a…
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The rise, fall and resurrection of Colorado’s ‘Castle of the Plains’
LA JUNTA • It is out near a crossroads in southeast Colorado, somewhere between parched fields and dusty towns abandoned by industries that built them, between struggling farms and crumbling homes and wide-open grasslands that go unchanged, preserved, appearing just as they did in the days of wagons over the Santa Fe Trail. It is…