Author: Seth Boster seth.boster@gazette.com
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Colorado’s Bent’s Old Fort is ‘endangered.’ Officials are reimagining its future
On Colorado’s southeast plains, a relic of the Old West could be significantly rehabilitated or rebuilt. Or some of the adobe building could be retained or all of it torn down, with only a marked “footprint” between trails, signs and exhibits telling of a bustling trading post that rose here in 1833. These are possibilities…
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Wine for the win: Voters’ favorite bars around Colorado Springs
In this weekly feature, we’re celebrating the best of Colorado Springs’ food and drink scene ー as determined by voters in the 2026 Best of the Springs (thebestofthesprings.com). We’ll throw in our own recommendation, too. Up this week: Wine bars. Gold: Uva Wine Bar A local couple opened this snazzy nook on the north side…
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Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse: A stunning creation built through an international bond
BOULDER — To step into Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse is to step across time and space, to witness thousands of years of tradition and to travel to the namesake city half a world away. Dushanbe is the capital of Tajikistan, a mountainous country between China and Afghanistan. It was here in the 1980s that 40 artisans…
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Pikes Pick: Phoebe Bridgers continues her rise as a generational voice
With a six-year gap between albums of her own, it seems strange to say Phoebe Bridgers has been a rising voice of a generation. It took six years between “Punisher” and the recent, critically acclaimed “Lost Weekend,” but Bridgers has still been busy. Her 2023 collaboration called Boygenius was, well, pretty genius. And now comes…
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Colorado 150 mag intro
In August of 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation making Colorado the 38th state in America. By then, gold miners had rushed to Pikes Peak and other mountains beyond Denver in hopes of striking it rich. Hopes and dreams would soon die inside the mining industry. But hopes and dreams are alive and…
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Fat Marmot Week has a winner but the struggle for survival continues
The fattest marmot has been crowned. After three rounds of bracket-style voting and social media buzz, Dawn emerged victorious from Fat Marmot Week, which was hosted for the first time by Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Weighing in at 13 pounds, Dawn prevailed over G in a field of eight photographed in their chunky, pre-hibernation…
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5 hot picks for streaming on this August weekend
Peacock’s “Married at First Sight” is exactly what the title promises: After putting their trust in professional matchmakers, strangers meet for the first time at the altar and say “I do.” Then, they have four weeks to live together, navigate their new marriages and decide whether they want to make it work or call it…
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Venturing to a sandy beach above 10,000 feet in Colorado’s mountains
Imagine laying out your beach towel, digging your toes in the sand and catching some rays while serenading water laps against the shore above 10,000 feet near treeline in Colorado’s Rockies. You can imagine this ー or you can hike to Sandbeach Lake. Yes, high in a secluded pocket of Rocky Mountain National Park is…
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Happy Trails: A loop to appreciate Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs
Blackmer Trail forms one of Cheyenne Mountain State Park’s premier loops. And like other trails here at the base of the granite marvel on Colorado Springs’ south side, you can bet on solitude. Consistently whenever we visit, it seems to us hikers and mountain bikers overlook the park, opting instead for busy destinations across the…
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‘Full demolition and reconstruction’ to close popular campground in Colorado
Changes are coming to a popular campground and scenic site in Colorado. The U.S. Forest Service recently announced a major overhaul for the Lake Irwin Campground and Day Use Area near Crested Butte that will keep overnighters away next year. The campground will close for the season Sept. 8, while the day use area will…