Tag: Outdoors
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Colorado’s largest wilderness area growing, popular trails protected
Colorado’s biggest wilderness area is getting bigger, and popular trails are gaining protections. That was the message of a recent announcement by The Wilderness Trust, which has long worked to acquire privately owned pockets within the nation’s most protected landscapes. A focus lately has been the Weminuche Wilderness, spanning 499,771 acres of western Colorado —…
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Rocky Mountain National Park at ‘tipping point’ with moose, embarks on plan
Moose’s impact on one of Colorado’s most cherished landscapes has been a concern over the years. Now Rocky Mountain National Park officials are launching an effort to address it. A recent webinar marked “the very beginning of this planning process,” the park’s large mammal ecologist, Will Deacy, emphasized to the virtual audience. This was in…
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A ‘dinosaur tree’ and its prehistoric journey to a Colorado greenhouse
Back in September, Malinda Barberio received an email from someone claiming to have a Wollemi pine. No way, thought Barberio, the University of Colorado greenhouse manager. “Because I know what they are,” she said. She knew the Wollemi pine to be extremely rare, previously thought to be gone with the dinosaurs, which are believed to…
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Colorado’s Cam Smith heading to Olympics for first year of ski mountaineering
In the first year of an Olympic sport, Colorado will represent. That’s after Crested Butte’s Cam Smith raced to a stunning victory at the ski mountaineering World Cup at Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah. He did so alongside Anna Gibson of Jackson Hole, Wyo., the two of them forming the first-place relay team that some…
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Proposed development sparks rally to ‘save’ trail, open space south of Denver
For the past 25 years around Denver’s south metro area, Mike Smith has watched homes, offices and commercial centers rise in open spaces he once viewed from the seat of his bike. But then there’s what he calls “the heart of Lone Tree.” To catch the sun rise or set or to ease the stress…
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51 acres of private Colorado inholdings secured by land trust in two popular wildernesses
Acquisitions will help to add onto public lands in pristine state ecosystems The Montana-based Wilderness Land Trust announced Wednesday it recently acquired two private inholdings within Colorado wildernesses, expanding 51 acres for future public use. The two properties are the 20-acre Busher Claim in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness and the 31-acre Great Western Lode in…
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Musical headliners named for 2026 Outside Days festival, presale tickets on sale Wednesday
Outside Interactive Inc., in partnership with the State of Colorado’s Outdoor Recreation Industry Office and presented by Capital One and REI Co-op, announced Wednesday the headliner music acts for the 2026 Outside Days in downtown Denver. Known as the Outside Festival & Summit the last two years, 2026’s music line up features headliners Death Cab…
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Camping Memorial Day weekend in Colorado? You might want to reserve a spot now
Coloradans are thinking about Christmas, not Memorial Day. But if they’re wanting to camp that holiday weekend in the summer, they might want to start planning now. Some of the state’s most popular campgrounds take reservations six months in advance. That includes campgrounds at Rocky Mountain National Park. At the start of this month, a…
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New stretch of Peaks to Plains Trail in canyon west of Denver
Another stretch of a long-dreamed trail has opened in a canyon west of Denver. Jefferson County officials and enthusiasts recently gathered for a ribbon cutting at a new trailhead in Clear Creek Canyon Park — the rugged, scenic site of progress on the Peaks to Plains Trail. A 2006 feasibility study envisioned what’s been called…
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1,420 people needed to break unofficial ‘world record’ in Breckenridge at Ullr Fest
The magic number of participants the Breckenridge Tourism Office in Breckenridge, Colorado is looking for to break the unofficial world record for most people doing a Shotski at one time is 1,420. Tickets for the 2025 Shotski event go on sale on today, which is one of the kick off celebrations of Breckenridge’s Ullr Fest,…