Tag: Indian Peaks Wilderness
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Wilderness Act turns 60: A look at some of Colorado’s treasured lands
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In 1919, a young U.S. Forest Service ranger named Arthur Carhart was sent to high, remote reaches of northwest Colorado to scout land for homes and roads to be built. He came to a clearing, where a lake reflected the majesty of flat-top mountains marching…
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5 spots for wildflower viewing in Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ‘Tis the season when shutterbugs fill their tanks and hit the road, bound for some of the best nature photography Colorado has to offer for a short time only. But a camera isn’t required to enjoy the state’s wildflowers. The images won’t soon leave your…
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Colorado off-road enthusiasts propose return to scenic route over Continental Divide
Efforts have reemerged to reopen a formerly famous route crossing the Continental Divide in Colorado. Off-roading groups recently submitted a letter to the U.S. Forest Service requesting access to a rugged track that has been off-limits for several decades. By reopening a stretch of the Boulder Wagon Road — a toll road in the 1890s…
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As toll of 2020 is taken in Colorado outdoors, what does it mean for years ahead?
Scott Fitzwilliams was supposed to be off work. But as supervisor of America’s most trafficked national forest, “you’re never off work,” he says. So there he was Fourth of July weekend, supposed to be enjoying the serenity he had always known at a lake within White River National Forest. “Popular,” Fitzwilliams had always known it,…
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Pikes Peak’s first recorded climber had wilderness named for him, but larger dreams failed
Mark James contemplates his great-great-great-great-great uncle, the renowned peak the man famously ascended and the little-known summit that instead took his name elsewhere in Colorado. At 14,115 feet, Pikes Peak boasts a more “convoluted landscape,” James says. “All those boulder fields and arroyos and fall-offs and abysses.” The well-traveled backpacker living near the Colorado-Wyoming border…