Category: Outdoors
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Here are some impacts to Colorado’s hunting seasons from wildfires in 2025
The Colorado 2025 wildfire season consumed more than 230,000 acres of forests, sagebrush and grassland areas, which will affect the hunting seasons. Colorado’s big game hunting season started on Sept. 2 with rifle bear and archery. Muzzleloader season starts Sept. 13, with rifle seasons starting next month. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials agreed it is…
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Outside releases environmental impact report from Denver 2025 Outside Festival
An aerial view of the estimated 16,000 people who came to each weekend day of the Outdoor Festival in Civic Center Park May 31 and June 1, 2025. OUTSIDE FESTIVAL Boulder-based Outside Interactive Inc., in partnership with Green Disco, released its sustainability impact report from the 2025 Outside Festival and Summit on Wednesday, and the…
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Progress on new trail up Colorado 14er
A new trail continues to take shape on a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado. Near the end of a fourth season of work, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) has announced opening another rerouted section of the path up Mount Shavano. The nonprofit is counting more than 1 1/2 miles of new trail finished across the mountain’s lower…
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Rocky Mountain National Park defies predictions after NPS staff cuts
At the height of the busy season at Rocky Mountain National Park, the town at its foot, Estes Park, crawled with visitors one Wednesday in the middle of summer. The parking lot of the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center was almost full, the bathrooms were clean and park staff assisted visitors with a map and a…
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Colorado’s fall colors starting early in 2025, where and when it’s best to see the leaves change
Colorado’s fall colors in the state’s mountains are emerging a couple of weeks early in 2025 as yellows and oranges are beginning to appear ahead of the annual September change over. At locations like on Fremont Pass outside Leadville, around Tolland in Gilpin County and near Frisco in Summit County, leaves have begun changing colors.…
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Coloradan Anne Flower breaks 31-year-old record at Leadville Trail 100 Run
FILE PHOTO: Anne Flower runs uphill during the Life Time Silver Rush 50 Run Sunday, July 13, 2025 in Leadville, Colorado. Flower won the Leadville Trail 100 Run on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, breaking a 31-year-old record in the process. Courtesy photo, Ken Hamblin lll A 31-year-old record was smashed in Leadville on Saturday at the…
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Sport shooting target range now open south of Idaho Springs, Colorado
The United States Forest Service opened the Devils Nose target range outside Idaho Springs, Colorado on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. Courtesy, USFS Devils Nose Target Range is now open. The Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests’ Clear Creek Ranger District announced Wednesday the range, southwest of Idaho Springs and approximately 1.5 miles northeast of Echo Lake off…
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Burros replace llamas for Leadville Trail 100 Run aid station atop Hope Pass
Penny the burro, front, and owner John Anderson hike on the Willis Gulch Trail during a burro packing expedition to near the summit of Hope Pass Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 in Twin Lakes, Colorado. Burros and mules are used to haul supplies to the summit area for racers running the Leadville Trail 100 Run race.…
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Colorado Tourism Office launches AI travel genius ‘Colorado Concierge’
The Colorado Tourism Office’s AI travel genius ‘Colorado Concierge’ is live as of Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025 and helps visitors to the state navigate all things Colorado tourism-based. Courtesy, Bryan Maltais/Colorado Tourism Office “Welcome to Colorado, I’ll be your virtual guide,” is the opening message you’ll see when first using the Colorado Tourism Office’s (CTO)…
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Popular Colorado pass visitors receive 37 ‘no parking’ tickets totaling $3,237.50 in 3 weeks
Several cars are parked near the summit of Guanella Pass west of Georgetown, Colorado in late July 2025. The Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office installed ‘No Parking’ signs near the summit to limit issues with road travel and emergency help if needed in an attempt to get people to park in designated zones only. Thirty…