Tag: Fishers Peak
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A checklist of 20 great (non-14er) summits on Colorado’s Front Range
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just because you set your sights lower than 14,000 feet doesn’t mean you’re setting a low bar. No, these aren’t the highest mountains on Colorado’s Front Range. But they could be called just as quintessential — much closer to home and providing a scenic, rewarding…
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Giving thanks to Colorado’s outdoors: Enthusiasts pick favorite destinations
The mountains outside our door. A more distant basecamp for adventure. A stretch of the Colorado Trail and newly public land waiting to be explored. These were some of the responses we heard to the question we ask around this time every year: What are we most thankful for across this state’s great outdoors? It’s…
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Iconic summit trail in southern Colorado making summer debut
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A trail to the top of an iconic mountain in southern Colorado is about to open for its first summer. Starting Aug. 1, the seasonal closure for raptor nesting on Fishers Peak’s upper cliffs will lift — granting hikers access to the chimney-like summit looming 9,600…
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Summit trail to Fishers Peak could soon be realized
A highly anticipated trail project in southern Colorado could cross the finish line in the coming months. Fishers Peak State Park Manager Crystal Dreiling said builders will soon return to the mountain, where they’ll be “fine tuning and cleaning up” the majority of the summit trail roughed-in last fall before continuing the final three miles…
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Happy Trails: A marvelous tour of trails around Fishers Peak
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The path to the top of Fishers Peak, one of southern Colorado’s most recognized promontories, could be finished and opened late this summer. It’ll be seasonally closed March through July for falcons nesting in the uppermost cliffs. But one doesn’t need to wait until then…
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Military, conservation groups eyeing 75,000-plus acres on Colorado Springs outskirts
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs military installations and leading conservation groups are set to embark on a multi-year mission intended to achieve operational buffers for those installations and simultaneously realize a new vision of open space on the city’s peripheries. The unique arrangement was recently cleared by the…
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5 Colorado towns where history lives — and what to see and do while you’re there
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Breckenridge Claim to fame: Gold was discovered along the Blue River in 1859, attracting waves of people who would create Breck as we know it today. In 1887, a 13 1/2-pound gold nugget was unearthed, considered the largest of its kind ever in Colorado. Today:…