Tag: Fishers Peak State Park
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Trails expanding at Colorado’s newest state park
The possibilities for adventure are growing around one of southern Colorado’s most iconic mountains. Construction recently started on about 10 miles of new trail at Fishers Peak State Park — adding to the network that has steadily expanded at Colorado’s newest state park. Spanning more than 16 miles currently, the network includes a long path to…
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More trails coming to Fishers Peak in southern Colorado
Trails are set to expand around an iconic mountain in southern Colorado. Fishers Peak State Park Manager Crystal Dreiling said the park’s next “trail package” would soon go out to bid — a project adding about 10 miles to the network that has steadily grown around the flat-top mountain overlooking Trinidad. The aim is to…
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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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Colorado’s first state park gets its first mountain bike trails
Colorado’s first state park has its first mountain bike-optimized trails. A flowy, buffed-out network roaming about 4 ½ miles is making its summer debut at Lathrop State Park, near Walsenburg. Also open to hikers, the trails more than double the dirt options at the park, which is overlooked by the Spanish Peaks and defined by…
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Trail to iconic Colorado summit opens as a town contemplates a new future
Around Trinidad, people have come to recognize Crystal Dreiling as the face of Fishers Peak State Park. “When I see people, they don’t say, ‘Hi, Crystal, how are you doing?’” said Dreiling, the park’s manager. “They say, ‘When are you going to get that peak open?’” They can stop asking now. Four years after Colorado’s…
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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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Your bucket list for Colorado outdoor fun in 2023
No list should determine satisfaction in Colorado’s outdoors. That should be more so determined by spontaneity, by those unexpected moments around the turn of any trail we might take. But goals are good, along with ideas. Consider these for your new year: Grand escape Grand Lake gets lots of love in the summer; it’s a…
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Touring the new trails at Fishers Peak State Park
TRINIDAD • Hiking through the pinon-juniper forest above town, three women reach a place they’ve been before. Now, the scene looks different. “This is all new,” says one, Kristina Birt. Now at this junction of Fishers Peak State Park, the trails keep going. The available mileage has gone from 2 — the initial, “first look”…
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New trails open at Fishers Peak in southern Colorado
After years in busy Boulder and busier Denver, Juan Delaroca was looking for something else. In 2015, he found it driving through Trinidad near Colorado’s southern border with New Mexico — found it in the sight of a mighty flattop, Fishers Peak, which was privately held at the time. “I just kind of looked around and…
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Draft plan for new state park in Colorado foresees 80-plus miles of trail
A recently released draft master plan paints the picture of a state park under development in southern Colorado. Three years after Fishers Peak State Park was established, a document spanning 188 pages lays out a detailed proposal for the future of the 19,000-plus acres. That includes plans for hikers to finally reach the iconic, flattop…