Tag: Cripple Creek
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LIFE | This club cares for Cripple Creek’s famous donkeys
The Two Mile High Club, initially called the Mile High Club, was formed in 1931 when local business owners banded together to care for the free-roaming donkeys that had been freed from working in local mines. The donkeys now spend the winters in a pasture just outside of town, being cared for by the club…
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Bring out the chainsaws! Cripple Creek Ice Fest returns this weekend after two-year break
Put on your gloves and crank that chainsaw. It’s back! The Cripple Creek Ice Festival is returning after a two-year break brought on by the pandemic. The two-week- long festival will kicked off Saturday, and the party will continue through Feb. 26. “It’s really been a collaboration between people who love the event fighting to…
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Cripple Creek Ice Festival set to return after two-year hiatus
After two years of cancellations, the Cripple Creek Ice Festival will once again take over the tiny mountain town. Ice-carving teams and their sculptures, along with vendors, music and more, will populate Bennett Avenue Feb. 18-20, including Presidents Day, and 25-26. The festival, one of the largest ice-carving events in the country, was canceled due…
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Cripple Creek theater company to stage spoof ‘Young Frankenstein’
Mel Brooks and Mary Shelley seem unlikely writing partners, but in a sense, they were. The English author Shelley came first, of course, with her 1818 classic horror novel “Frankenstein,” about Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who brings his science experiment to life. Brooks followed up a century and a half later with his 1974…
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Looping through relics of Pikes Peak past, this trail is ‘a treasure trove of history’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save VICTOR — It’s best to go on the trail with a poem. The words are found in a commemorative book from 1993, celebrating 100 years of this once mighty gold camp. The relics from those days still stand, those towering headframes along the Vindicator Valley…
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Want to catch a fireworks show in Colorado this weekend? Here’s where to go
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The skies above Denver and across the state are set to boom and sparkle with twinkling colors this holiday weekend, as firework displays are scheduled across the state in honor of Independence Day. Firework shows will begin on Friday and continue through Monday. Here’s a…
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Gold awaits! 10 places to explore mines and pan for gold in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Long after their heydays, several mines in Colorado carry on as tourist destinations. And in parks and streams, gold still awaits seekers with the hand tools and know-how. If digging and panning, be aware that some locations require permits. Here are options to relive that…
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A timeline of Colorado’s mining heyday
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado would not be booming today were it not for the mining booms of the past. The frenzy put the territory on the map before it was recognized as a state in 1876. Here’s a timeline covering the most significant era of the industry: 1858:…
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Hotel building boom underway in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One of the Colorado Springs area’s biggest waves of hotel construction in the last quarter century will add three-dozen new properties and more than 4,100 rooms over the next two years, including a high-profile downtown hotel set to open this week. A healthy economy and…
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Colorado snowstorm disrupts events, knocks out power for thousands
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denverites and people across Colorado traded in their shorts and t-shirts for parkas and snow pants on Saturday as a late-season storm rocked the state with wet and heavy snow. Snowfall died down during the mid-morning hours in Denver but dropped between 1.7 and 14.5…