Tag: Fruita
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CBCA salutes those who combine arts and business innovation
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Tech entrepreneur and investor Dan Caruso was presented the 2026 John Madden Jr. Leadership Award on Tuesday by the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) for his work in establishing meaningful local partnerships with the Roots Music Project and Sundance Film Festival. “The arts and culture is more important now than perhaps ever,” said…
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As e-bike talks intensify in Colorado Springs, here’s a look at what other places are doing around the state
In 2015, Mary Ann Bonnell and her Jeffco Open Space team thought to bring an unusual presentation to an annual conference of local land managers around Colorado. Bonnell would speak on electric bikes, or e-bikes as they were becoming known. “We had little to no interest. I think 11 people showed up,” Bonnell recalls. “Very…
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Pizza, please: 8 favorite spots to grab a slice around Colorado
In Colorado, pizza makes sense. This is a tourist state, and what tourist doesn’t want pizza? This is an outdoorsy state, and after a long day in the mountains, what’s better than pizza? Coloradans know what’s better: pizza and beer — a match made in the craft beer heaven that is the Centennial State. Pizza…
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We’ve traveled all around Colorado sampling great food. These are 10 favorites from our Craving Colorado series.
In 2019, The Gazette launched its Craving Colorado series with the intent of highlighting eateries both known and unknown around the state. Nothing fancy, just downright delicious. And you can bet we’ve gained a few pounds. Some of the best we’ve eaten? Glad you asked. Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs: Anthony Bourdain loved a hot dog.…
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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…