Tag: Pueblo Mountain Park
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Oak Ridge fire reaches 25% containment,1,193 acres burned
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Oak Ridge fire west of Beulah in Pueblo County was 25% contained Thursday morning. According to Rocky Mountain Area Complex Incident Management Team 3, the total acreage burned remained unchanged from the previous night but grew slightly to 1,193 Thursday evening from drier weather, warmer…
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Colorado author’s new hiking book explores state’s ‘hidden gems’
While writing his next guide to Colorado’s outdoors, Stewart Green heard the naysayers. “I did get a bunch of crap from a few people,” says the Colorado Springs native with a bibliography spanning the better part of 40 years. “‘Oh, you’re giving away all this information, and all the trails are gonna be trampled, and…
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Happy Trails: This southern Colorado trail delights ‘off the beaten path’
Mace Trail, Pueblo Mountain Park People who know Pueblo Mountain Park know the name to be deceiving. The preserve resembles no part of the city built on steel. During the 1920s boom, the city established this preserve in the Wet Mountains about 30 miles west. Now the park is maintained by a nonprofit. Nature and…
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A scenic mountain park awaits former glory in southern Colorado
BEULAH • Colorado 78 runs west of Pueblo through open ranch land that is like a sea dividing nations. Sudden, rugged bluffs rise and fall across pastures. The distance from that industrious city to this nostalgic mountain town is about 25 miles, but it seems much farther. Beulah is a name with biblical meaning, a…