Tag: Staunton State Park
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Volunteers needed to help preserve historic Staunton homestead cabin
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There is nothing stronger than Mother Nature. Not the world’s tallest building, or the world’s strongest bodybuilder, and certainly not a 102-year-old historic log cabin. In an effort to preserve one of eight historic structures within Staunton State Park, officials are seeking volunteers to assist…
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Missing Colorado hiker found dead at state park
Officials from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office discovered missing 60-year-old Steven Kost dead Wednesday night at Staunton State Park. Kost’s family reached out to the sheriff’s office after he didn’t return from his hike Tuesday. Officials said Kost left for Staunton State Park at 9:30 a.m. and was supposed to be home at 6 p.m.,…
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Record visitation at Colorado state parks in 2020 spells ‘high-use’ fees
FRANKTOWN — Inside Castlewood Canyon State Park, where worldly troubles seem to float away with the creek and with the clouds out to snowcapped peaks beyond, a certain reality occurred to Trevor Girten. “Prices are only going up it seems,” he said Friday on his first hike of the new year. That was the case…
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Record visitation at Colorado state parks in 2020 spells ‘high-use’ fees
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Data confirms what the eye suggested at Colorado’s state parks in 2020: unprecedented visitation. Numbers were not yet final by the end of December, with counts still being logged from that month and some of November. But the 18.3 million visitors reported so far were up from the 14.8 million total in 2019 — a…