Tag: Morrison
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Red Rocks concerts generated more than $700 million for area economy in 2022, study says
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While Red Rocks has been busy smashing attendance records in the past few years on its way to becoming the world’s most attended concert venue in 2021, a research group has been working to quantify the Colorado music institution’s economic impact. Red Rocks’ concerts generated…
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‘A connection across time’: Colorado attraction is home to world-famous dinosaur discoveries, hundreds of tracks and fossils
Dinosaur Ridge, located just west of Denver, is celebrating 50 years as a National Natural Landmark. Long before that designation, the treasures encased by the Dakota and Morrison formations had achieved world-wide acclaim: hundreds of footprints and bones of prehistoric beasts, among them the first stegosaurus known to mankind. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)…
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LIFE | Walking with dinosaurs on Denver’s edge
Dinosaur Ridge, located just west of Denver, is celebrating 50 years as a National Natural Landmark. Long before that designation, the treasures encased by the Dakota and Morrison formations had achieved world-wide acclaim: hundreds of footprints and bones of prehistoric beasts, among them the first stegosaurus known to mankind. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)
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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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The good and bad times of Tiny Town, Colorado’s fantasy attraction returning this summer
MORRISON • Throughout last summer, the 71-year-old woman in charge of Tiny Town would come by the place she always knew as “happy and magical.” It was “a wonderful, miniature world,” Elvira Nedoma wrote in her book chronicling the roadside attraction’s 100 years. Nedoma started “If These Tracks Could Talk” like this: “Somewhere over the…
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LIFE | Tiny Town & Railroad
Take a look inside Tiny Town & Railroad, Colorado’s fantasy attraction that returns this summer. (Video by Katie Klann)
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U.S. 285 northbound closed in Morrison due to fatal semi-tanker rollover
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Northbound U.S. 285 is closed due to a semi-tanker rolling over Thursday afternoon resulting in the death of the driver. The tanker rolled over on its side after flipping over about 1:50 p.m. and caused it’s cab to separate from the tank it was hauling…
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Colorado has 2 new national scenic byways. Here’s a look at all 13
Coloradans know the state’s beauty to be endless, though the extent to which it is reflected in one federal record is limited. That record, however, is expanding. Two long stretches of Colorado road have been added to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s list of national scenic byways. Mountainous thoroughfares known as Highway of Legends and…
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Large grass fire in metro Denver forcing evacuations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save LAKEWOOD — A large grass fire is burning Sunday in Lakewood near Morrison Road and the Fox Hollow Golf Course. A large grass fire is burning Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in Lakewood near Morrison Road…