Tag: Travel
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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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Frontier Airlines offers summer, full-year passes for flexible flyers
Denver-based Frontier Airlines (NASDAQ: ULCC) has launched an addition to their Go Wild pass, a flight credit system that gives customers the opportunity to fly on short notice at a set cost. The “GoWild!” all-you-can-fly pass was first announced in November 2022 with a limited-time special for a full-year pass at $599. That same pass,…
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Colorado town to love in winter: Grand Lake
There’s no denying Grand Lake in the summer. With the boardwalks connecting charming shops and eateries, and with the state’s largest natural body of water only steps away, the town in Colorado’s central mountains feels something like a beach getaway. But in the cold of winter, Grand Lake shines no less. The quaint hamlet often…
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A look at 8 ghost towns in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save They are abandoned but not forgotten. They are the forefronts of classic Colorado images, destination reminders of the bold pioneers that built this state. One might say their spirits linger across the mountains — their shouts and cries still heard in the night between cabins…
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A hotel of horror in an old, remote mining town of Colorado
VICTOR • The Victorian building sat on the corner vacant for many years, like so many buildings in this ghostly quiet town in the hills like a rolling graveyard, scattered with splintered wood and rusted metal of shafts and A-frames and other mining skeletons. In 2017, that old building caught the eye of a passerby…
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Since 1929, this Colorado family has perfected the cherry pie | Craving Colorado
LYONS • A sweet smell drifts through the sweetest memories of Anthony Lehnert. He’s transported to an old home in the Wisconsin countryside, a converted school house where there always seemed to be a pie in his grandma’s oven. “You could smell that burnt apple when you woke up,” Lehnert recalls. Now, you can smell…
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By a master’s hands in the Colorado mountains, the bamboo fly rod lives on
LYONS • It’s not often Mike Clark shows guests to the back of his shop. It is, after all, his space. His domain. A little, wooden world of fine, meticulous work. One might say magic happens here, if they are so romantically inclined to the bamboo fly rod. Clark is not all that inclined, a…
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Enter ‘the soul of the Rockies’ in this beachy town | Main Street Colorado
At last visit to Grand Lake, we happened upon Bob Scott’s Authentic Indian Jewelry. This was the man’s 51st summer in town, and he was cheery as ever. He answered phone calls with the usual line. “It’s a beautiful day in Grand Lake, Colorado. Don’t you wish you were here?” It’s easy to wish. Bob…