Author: Rachel Riley
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Is the Hyperloop in the blueprint for Colorado’s transportation future?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than 18 months after a Los Angeles-based company announced it was eyeing Colorado for its first Hyperloop system, there’s been few signs that the proposal has progressed beyond a cutting-edge concept. Virgin Hyperloop One…
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Six years after fire, Black Forest Regional Park gets major upgrades
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Jason Meyer remembers celebrating the completion of three miles of new trail at Black Forest Regional Park the day the fire sparked. Then, suddenly, “it was starting all over from square one,” said Meyer, an…
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Newborn sloth welcomed at Colorado zoo
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Chalupa and Bosco, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s resident male and female sloths, haven’t shown any signs of attraction in the nearly four years they’ve been hanging out together in the Monkey Pavilion. So zookeepers were…
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Rainbow Falls to reopen to public months after closure
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Rainbow Falls Historic Site reopens for the season this weekend, it will be a little less colorful. Most of the graffiti has been removed from the rocks surrounding the waterfalls at the popular recreation…
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Find the Pickle Shack at the Base of a Famous 14er
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Wendy Beisel’s husband first suggested pickles might be a perfect commodity to offer for sale in the shop they planned to open at the base of Pikes Peak, she thought he might be joking.…
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Craft brewers face dry spell due to government shutdown
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Paradox Beer Company on Thursday debuted its Maple Manhattan, a cocktail-inspired brew aged in maple wood barrels with maple syrup and Italian amarena cherries. But customers in the 17 other states to which the brewery…
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Pikes Peak Cog Railway to reopen in 2021
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Pikes Peak Cog Railway will run again. A nearly $100 million reconstruction of the iconic tourist attraction is expected to be in full swing by next spring, according to Oklahoma Publishing, the parent company…
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Endangered wolf escapes Colorado wildlife center; Likely still on the prowl
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A young Mexican wolf is believed to be wandering the Divide area after escaping from a wildlife center more than a week ago. Employees at the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center noticed that the wolf…
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New “parking” deal could make Cog Railway reopening a reality
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Owners of the Pikes Peak Cog Railway will help Manitou Springs establish 300 to 400 new parking spaces for visitors if the city signs a fifty-year tax incentive agreement that the railway’s owners says they…
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State Board Rejects Application for New Quarry in El Paso County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The state mining board on Thursday again denied a local concrete company’s request to mine a rugged patch of land in southeastern El Paso County, saying the company failed to prove a quarry wouldn’t do…