Tag: Colorful Colorado
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Bishop Castle: One man’s vision springs toward sky
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Jim Bishop and his castle are the definition of “Colorful Colorado.” Bishop, a lifelong Pueblo resident, acquired property off Colorado 165 as a teen in 1969 and used it to turn a dream into reality.…
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The Durango ranch where nature, family and burgers rule | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DURANGO • Something new grows at the James Ranch. It’s a building yet to be finished, like the brownies left out for workers hammering away, trying to finish by August after many delays. Please eat…
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Legend of Mike the Headless Chicken lives on | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save FRUITA • A fifth-generation farmer is busy tending his fields when he’s asked about the chicken. Again. “Yeah,” Troy Waters says. “Everybody asks me about the chicken.” Only because he’s most familiar with the chicken.…
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Colorful Colorado: Future tied to Vail, Crested Butte maintains humble heritage
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CRESTED BUTTE • Dawn Belloise emerges from the post office disgruntled. Oh, how the place has changed. Lines like you wouldn’t believe! An eon endured in the attempt to send or receive packages. “Like the…
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Breckenridge has a troll problem — and the hunt is on
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BRECKENRIDGE • Snow crunches. Branches snap. In the shady woods east of town, people sneak through the trees. The hunt is on. Their target? The massive troll that has taken residency in the clearing ahead,…
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The unlikely rise of the Colorado-made Dobrato, the A-lister guitar | Colorful Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GUNNISON • A peculiar, sweet sound drifts down Main Street. Castle Creek Guitars is warmly lit and cedar scented, squeezed between the humble downtown’s boutiques and bars. And inside, the owner cradles his creation. “This is the Dobrato,” Kent Viles announces, proudly introducing a dear…
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Colorado mining town embraces tradition as ‘The LAST Great Place’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CREEDE • Bill Dooley and his seven classmates had to memorize a poem in high school. “It’s day all day in the day-time,” goes the famous line. “And there is no night in Creede.” That…
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Colorful Colorado: Ghost town miraculously survives Spring Creek fire
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LA VETA • From the high gravel road, the Sangre de Cristo mountains appear to have been swallowed by a dark shadow that won’t soon rise. In view are some of the 200-plus structures that…
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Colorful Colorado: Lake City’s identity lies somewhere between scenic byways
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LAKE CITY • The day is finally here. I’m visiting with the mayor, who has the look I’d expect of this mountain town’s mayor — shorts, T-shirt, white beard and ponytail poking from ball cap…
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Colorful Colorado: State’s oldest shoe store endures life’s changes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GRAND JUNCTION – Bruce Benge ruffles through the clutter of the shoe store’s back room, determined to find the picture. “There’s a lot of cleaning that has to happen,” he says, “but it hasn’t happened yet.” So…