Tag: trail running
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Happy Trails: Going for gold at Castle Rock’s Philip S. Miller Park
In 2014, Castle Rock opened an outdoor destination to meet the growing population between Colorado’s biggest cities. Philip S. Miller Park would have something for everyone. There would be Challenge Hill — the vertical 200 steps resembling a much smaller Manitou Incline. There would be a turf field for sports and a state-of-the-art playground. There would…
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Colorado Springs area open space introduces new trail
A new trail has opened around the Black Forest pines. El Paso County land managers are calling it Farrar Loop, for the ranching family previously on the 1,000 acres that are now Pineries Open Space. The open space debuted in 2020 with a 9-mile loop that has appealed to long-distance hikers, runners, mountain bikers and…
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Giving thanks to Colorado’s outdoors: Enthusiasts pick favorite destinations
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The mountains outside our door. A more distant basecamp for adventure. A stretch of the Colorado Trail and newly public land waiting to be explored. These were some of the responses we heard to the question we ask around this time every year: What are…
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Giving thanks to Colorado’s outdoors: Enthusiasts pick favorite destinations
The mountains outside our door. A more distant basecamp for adventure. A stretch of the Colorado Trail and newly public land waiting to be explored. These were some of the responses we heard to the question we ask around this time every year: What are we most thankful for across this state’s great outdoors? It’s…
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Colorado Springs area open space introduces new trail
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new trail has opened around the Black Forest pines northeast of Colorado Springs. El Paso County land managers are calling it Farrar Loop, for the ranching family previously on the 1,000 acres that are now Pineries Open Space. The open space debuted in 2020…
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Colorado Springs area open space introduces new trail
A new trail has opened around the Black Forest pines northeast of Colorado Springs. El Paso County land managers are calling it Farrar Loop, for the ranching family previously on the 1,000 acres that are now Pineries Open Space. The open space debuted in 2020 with a 9-mile loop that has appealed to long-distance hikers,…
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Happy Trails: A trailhead-to-trailhead tour of Ute Valley Park in Colorado Springs
Ute Valley Regional Trail Amid the forest and rocky bluffs of northern Colorado Springs, mountain bikers have come to crave fast, technical descents on narrow trails. Runners, too, have come to appreciate the flavors. Ute Valley Regional Trail is the antithesis of this. A “stroller trail,” one of those hard-wired bikers might call it. Not…
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The overlooked side of Lake Pueblo: 40-plus miles of sprawling trails through a geologic wonderland
PUEBLO • The late-morning sun is rising, boats are revving up, stand-up paddleboarders are pushing out, and beach-day tents are popping up in a classic scene of Colorado summer. This is the popular scene at Lake Pueblo. But there’s another side of the state park — a more “overlooked” side, says local outdoor enthusiast Maggie…
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Happy Trails: A splendid loop around Colorado Springs’ Bear Creek Regional Park
Not far from the heart of Colorado Springs, Bear Creek Regional Park is a lot of things. It’s a place to let the furry companions run free (the dog park is super popular). A place of playgrounds for the kids and open fields for the whole family. A place for gardening. But more than anything,…
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A dive into vaunted speed records across Colorado’s outdoors
Joseph DeMoor has a confession to make. He knows it sounds silly, but he likes to see his name listed on the first page of fastestknowntime.com/athletes. There are, at last check, 487 pages you could scroll through — names listed with their number of fastest known times, or FKTs, as the rather obscure records are…