Tag: trails
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$45,000 grant to jump-start planning for Waldo Canyon Trail restoration
Five and a half years after a devastating wildfire followed by floods and mudslides, Jennifer Peterson can deliver some good news about the Waldo Canyon Trail. The Rocky Mountain Field Institute received a $45,000 planning grant for the trail and canyon from Colorado Parks and Wildlife State Trails Program, Peterson, the nonprofit’s executive director, announced…
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Favored trail reroute emerges as Bear Creek watershed project enters standstill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An alternative to an alternative has emerged to the forefront of the greatly debated plan to reroute a popular trail around the Bear Creek watershed in Colorado Springs’ southwest mountains. On Wednesday, U.S. Forest Service…
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Favored trail reroute emerges as Bear Creek watershed project enters standstill
An alternative to an alternative has emerged to the forefront of the greatly debated plan to reroute a popular trail around the Bear Creek watershed in Colorado Springs’ southwest mountains. On Wednesday, U.S. Forest Service officials met again with the outdoors advocates who have been consulted on the project since its beginnings in 2012, when…
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State grant will help complete trail around downtown Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A $1 million state grant will be awarded to Colorado Springs to complete its long-sought Legacy Loop trail around downtown. Great Outdoors Colorado, or GOCO, announced the award Tuesday in a news release. It is…
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State grant will help complete trail around downtown Colorado Springs
A $1 million state grant will be awarded to Colorado Springs to complete its long-sought Legacy Loop trail around downtown. Great Outdoors Colorado, or GOCO, announced the award Tuesday in a news release. It is among 37 GOCO grants approved Tuesday that will be distributed statewide. The GOCO money will help fund 2.3 miles of…
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HAPPY TRAILS: The Rock Island Trail
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This mostly paved bike and pedestrian path winds from downtown east through the suburbs and rolling hills to Powers Boulevard, where you’ll have to turn around and return the way you came. But with a…
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HAPPY TRAILS: The Rock Island Trail
This mostly paved bike and pedestrian path winds from downtown east through the suburbs and rolling hills to Powers Boulevard, where you’ll have to turn around and return the way you came. But with a tunnel under Powers planned and other trail connections in the works, you will be able to sense the potential of…
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This week in Happy Trails, finally, the Manitou Incline
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For more than 17 years, we’ve been bringing you Happy Trails. And yet what has become the region’s most popular trail, the Manitou Incline, never has appeared in our weekly trail guide. For good reason.…
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This week in Happy Trails, finally, the Manitou Incline
For more than 17 years, we’ve been bringing you Happy Trails. And yet what has become the region’s most popular trail, the Manitou Incline, never has appeared in our weekly trail guide. For good reason. It was illegal to hike the former railroad line, but that didn’t stop hundreds of thousands from trespassing each year.…
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Three ways to Barr Camp
Caretakers Neal and Teresa Taylor love visitors at Barr Camp, the rustic camp at 10,200 feet on Pikes Peak. It’s a long distance to get there, but hikers are rewarded with a friendly greeting, a bed or place to camp if staying overnight and if they’re lucky one of Neal’s Pikes Peak Power Pancakes. Here…