Tag: Fruita
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Annual mountain bike celebration returning to Colorado desert
A destination mountain bike celebration is returning to the western Colorado desert. Fruita’s three-day Fat Tire Festival is kicking off May 12 for a full weekend of live music, food, beer and, most importantly, gear and singletrack. Organizers call it “one of the nation’s longest-running, non-race mountain bike events,” where the focus is not on…
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‘Jurassic Park’ in Colorado: Discover dinosaurs at these 8 sites
Near the northern Colorado-Utah border, there’s a river-cut land of colorful rock traversed by the short Fossil Discovery Trail. It is an interpretive trail, with educational signs and remembrances of Earl Douglas. He is the paleontologist credited with the 1915 establishment of Dinosaur National Monument. Along that trail through this sweeping dinosaur graveyard, one panel…
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Happy Trails: In western Colorado, marvelous tour through 50 million years of geology
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Monument Canyon Trail By the lack of people we saw at last visit to Colorado National Monument, we developed a theory. We got to thinking people from the Front Range driving west all too often…
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Waking dream: One-of-a-kind Colorado water park surprises on Western Slope
FRUITA • Another day at the lake finds Victor and Kodi Imondi dreaming again. Husband and wife are thinking about adding a new activity to the aquatic business that surprises here on Colorado’s far west desert: scuba diving. They’re thinking about some kind of scavenger hunt, things to find 20-plus feet underwater. Perhaps an old…
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Palisade: An irresistible detour en route to Grand Junction
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Driving through the desert of far western Colorado, something like a dream appears. Between the dirt and rock faces of buttes and mesas, there’s an ocean of green waving along Interstate 70. That’s not a mirage. That’s Palisade, an irresistible detour en route to Grand…
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Hot Tomato pizza about as legendary as mountain biking in western Colorado | Craving Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save FRUITA • For his first shift at Hot Tomato eight years ago, Aaron Knapp was told to wear a costume. “I was just like, is this a prank? Are they hazing me?” he recalls. “I wore a costume, and sure enough, everybody was in weird…
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11 reasons to be thankful for Colorado outdoors
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Around this time every year, we’re asking outdoorsy Coloradans to give thanks to the places they adore the most. Let their gratitude inspire your own (and tell us what you’re thankful for in the comments section at the end of the story): John Fielder, Summit…
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New mountain biking destination to debut in western Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A debut is on the horizon for some highly-anticipated trails in western Colorado. The Grand Hogback network’s first 6.3 miles could be unveiled to mountain bikers as early as April 15, when closure for wintering…