Tag: Eagle
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Surfing in Colorado? Yes, and it’s booming where you might least expect it
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Eric Thomas spent the 1980s and ’90s surfing waves off Florida, California and Hawaii, with other stops around the Bahamas and tropics in what became a professional career on the oceans. Then he looked to a land-locked state. “I wanted something totally different,” Thomas said.…
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A frozen palace rose in Colorado’s mountains nearly 130 years ago
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By now in Colorado, we know of the Ice Castles. The frozen attraction has once again opened to great fanfare in Cripple Creek, just as the Utah-based company has debuted another colorful complex of towers, arches and tunnels in Eagle. Lest we forget, a more…
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Colorado mountain towns tap tourists to help address housing, child care for workers
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Editor’s note: Today, The Gazette begins publishing stories from the Colorado Network, a new cooperative of freelance journalists focused on covering news from all corners of the state, particularly areas that are undercovered now. DURANGO • Durango and La Plata County have come up with an innovative way to address acute shortages in housing and child…
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National bird: Best spots to view bald eagles around Colorado Springs
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North America’s great white-capped bird of prey is finally official. On Christmas Eve, President Joe Biden signed a law making the bald eagle the national bird of the U.S. It’s been a long time coming, especially since many Americans already thought the bird was our national bird. “I get why it’s the eagle. They represent…
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Ice Castles to add new Colorado location, returning to I-70 corridor
Coloradans will have two options to experience the wintry attraction, Ice Castles, with a new location in Eagle to join the second year in Cripple Creek. “We are thrilled to add a second location in Colorado this winter where we can create a sense of magic and wonder for our guests,” said Ice Castles CEO…
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8 whitewater parks around Colorado
Drop into many of Colorado’s riverside towns and you won’t need to go far to find the culture of play. Increasingly over the years, towns have built and expanded central meeting places for enthusiastic kayakers, tubers and stand-up paddleboarders: whitewater parks of rock-made waves, drops and rapids. Whether you partake or spectate, here are eight…
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I-70 Glenwood Canyon bypass plan moving forward on Cottonwood Pass
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The narrow, winding, often impassable dirt road between Gypsum and Glenwood Springs used by drivers to get around emergency closures of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon looks like it might be getting safety improvements — eventually. Two open house presentations by the Colorado Department of Transportation…
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I-70 eastbound reopened after jackknifed semi left hazmat spill
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I-70 eastbound was closed this morning due to a crash near Eagle, Colorado Department of Transportation said in a tweet. CDOT tweeted just before 8 a.m. that I-70 eastbound was closed at mile post 147 near Eagle due to a jackknifed semi at mile post…
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Dormant railroad that served Camp Hale National Monument looking to come back to life
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A complex, multifront battle over a dormant railroad from Pueblo to Minturn and Eagle continues to simmer. The Tennessee Pass rail line, built in 1881 and taken out of service in 1997, recently attracted interest in reviving the line from both a company wanting to…
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Officials eye completion of 63-mile trail in Colorado mountains
A scenic Colorado bike trail many years and many dollars in the making is down to the last 12 miles. Work has been underway this summer on a stretch of pavement connecting Dotsero to Gypsum — one of the last four segments needing construction to realize the full Eagle Valley Trail. Once complete, cyclists will…