Tag: Denver-gazette
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife on lookout for next state park
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While Coloradans have been granted a “sneak peek” of their 42nd state park — a small slice of Fishers Peak State Park in Trinidad was unveiled last month — they are now being asked to dream about the 43rd. Through a new online system, people…
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Another mini Incline set to open on Colorado Front Range
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A little sibling of the Manitou Incline is ready for its public debut, just in time for fitness fanatics to work off that turkey feast. The Incline Challenge, as a local government collaboration is calling…
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How health care workers are finding aid in Colorado’s great outdoors
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Dark clouds were building. A cold wind howled through the valley. But here in the mountains west of Colorado Springs, a dozen hospital workers stood at the base of a towering crag, appearing unfazed by the elements. They had just hiked about 3 miles to…
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Happy Trails: Mount Carbon a serene loop trail at Denver oasis
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mount Carbon loop Upon entering Bear Creek Lake Park in Lakewood, we wondered: Would adjacent U.S. 285 be the cacophony of this retreat? Would we be joining the people on foot and bike along the…
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Colorado winter fantasy returning, but this time with restrictions
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While Coloradans will once again be able to escape to a colorful fantasyland this winter, the harsh realities of the COVID-19 pandemic still linger. Ice Castles is set to return to the Summit County town…
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The hot, toxic, uphill battle against Colorado’s underground fires
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In Craig Amichaux’s childhood memories, there’s a mystical land not far from his Glenwood Springs home, close but deep in the mountains. “A beautiful country,” he says. “Bears and elk. And the fascination of it is there’s thermal hot springs out there, a hippie dip.”…
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Was the teddy bear born in Colorado?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GLENWOOD SPRINGS • At the Hotel Colorado gift shop called Legends, teddy bears range in price from $20 to $40, the most expensive of which wears an old-style vest and spectacles on the bridge of his nose, resembling the folk hero president. Near the back…
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Smoke, pandemic marks challenging chapter in colorful story of northern Colorado state park
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sights and sounds from Lory State Park near Fort Collins. (Video by Seth Boster) { “@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “VideoObject”, “name”: “LIFE | Lory State Park”, “description”: “Sights and sounds from Lory State Park near Fort Collins. (Video by Seth Boster)”, “thumbnailUrl”: “https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/denvergazette.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/ce/fce241cd-ff06-589b-8532-c75ff17de7fa/5f820c70361a2.image.jpg”, “uploadDate”: “2020-10-10T13:06:00-06:00”, “contentUrl”:…
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Paul Klee: Broncos schedule changes, coronavirus life got you down? Check out what Nugget Gary Harris did
DENVER — We’ll get to the details of the Broncos’ schedule changes, how on Sunday the NFL postponed the Patriots game to next week and remade Denver’s season into a labyrinth of hope and crossed fingers. First I want to tell you about Gary Harris — the Nuggets guard, nothing to do with the Broncos…