How do you get to the summit of Pikes Peak? You can walk, run, bike, ride, drive, ski, snowshoe, take the cog railway, jeep or bus tour, or even crawl up a trail pushing a peanut with your nose. In any case, it’s steep, exhilarating and often challenging. The first...
EL PUEBLO HISTORY MUSEUM Located downtown at 302 S. Union Ave., is a museum whose building is a recreation of the 1842 El Pueblo trading post which originally occupied this site. Archeologists first pinpointed the site in 1989, and the city partnered with the Colorado...
In 1890, the site of Cripple Creek was just rolling ranchland on the backside of Pikes Peak. Long inhabited by the Utes, the United States government had formally dispossessed them of their ancestral lands and forced them into reservations hundreds of miles to the...
The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center is the brainchild of executive director Darlene Kobobel, who cautiously adopted a wolf-dog hybrid in 1993. Â Chinook, a two-year old female hybrid, had been scheduled for euthanasia in a local shelter. Kobobel quickly became aware...
When Katharine Lee Bates wrote about her visit in 1891 to Pikes Peak, she marveled at the spacious skies, amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties. Had she scrambled over the summit boulder field and looked west, she might have added a verse about the...
The Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort is a family-owned, vintage hotel with a western theme. Located on a designated bike route connecting Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs, the spacious cyclist-friendly establishment is close to multiple hiking/ biking/climbing venues...
At the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020, longtime Terra Verde employees (and Colorado Springs natives) Carrie Hibbard and Leah Riehl bought the iconic downtown women’s boutique from owner/founder Chris Sonderman. For Hibbard, it was a particularly poignant and proud...
One of the easiest, most interesting, and least stressful ways to experience the Pikes Peak Region is to ring “The Peak” by car. There are multiple routes, takeoff points, and degrees of difficulty. The Region doesn’t have specific boundaries — you’re in it if you can...
For many cities and regions, the seemingly endless months of the late and unlamented pandemic meant quiet streets, paused projects, deserted downtowns and dreary Zoom meetings. We had all but one of those in Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region, where...
It's 7:45 on a warm Saturday morning. We’re walking our dogs through Old Colorado City. Most of the stores are closed, but the 130-year-old commercial district is coming to life. At Carnelian Coffee half a dozen customers enjoy the sunlight streaming through the...
Strolling down Madison Avenue decades ago, I had an interesting interaction with a mega- snooty Manhattan gallery. An interesting painting caught my eye as I walked by the upscale business, so I tried to walk in and check it out. The door was locked, so I knocked and...
There are wolves, dogs, and wolf/dog hybrids – so what’s the difference? There are multiple answers to that simple question; one that has engaged dog lovers, wolf advocates and animal behaviorists for many decades. The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) may have...
