Tag: ute valley park
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Happy Trails: Catching the best views at Ute Valley Park in Colorado Springs
On a recent hike in Ute Valley Park, we got to thinking about how fortunate we are here in Colorado Springs. About how fortunate we are for this park between north side neighborhoods, this place close to home but seemingly far away, wild. From certain vantage points, it’s easy to imagine homes marching on here…
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Trackchairs coming to 2 more parks in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs officials are expanding a program aimed at getting people with disabilities out on the trails. Since last year, the city’s Parks Department has reserved free, guided trips at Red Rock Canyon and Blodgett…
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Happy Trails: A portal to serene, quiet nature at this northwest Colorado Springs park
The contrast is stark at a corner in northwest Colorado Springs: a massive manufacturing center under construction across the street from a portal to quiet nature. This is South Rockrimmon Trailhead in Ute Valley Park. This is the entry to some of the newer trails in the park, including a mountain bike-only pocket. It’s the…
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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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Fifth-year Pikes Peak Apex maintains mission to be ‘world-class’ mountain bike race
A mountain bike race unlike any before in Colorado Springs heads into its fifth year with an eye, as ever, toward the future. Starting June 7, the three-day Pikes Peak APEX aims to draw closer to 200 riders, up from last year’s 162, said organizer Micah Rice. For the event boasting big mileage and elevation…
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Happy Trails: Feeling gratitude on upper loop of north Colorado Springs park
Along the upper reaches of Ute Valley Park, it’s easy to appreciate this wild parcel on Colorado Springs’ north side. It’s easy, because the wildness appears in such stark contrast to the view of the neighborhood.
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LIFE | Mountain Unicycling in Colorado
Mountain unicyclists are a strain of mountain biker, preferring the same rough and steep terrain while ditching one wheel. They are, as The New York Times once observed, “putting an extreme twist on the most whimsical of devices.” They’re a rare breed, says unicyclist Rob Urban, who often rides with his son in Colorado Springs…
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PHOTOS: Air Academy mountain bike team joins volunteers at Ute Valley Park
Members of the Air Academy mountain bike team joined volunteers with Friends of Ute Valley Park and park ranger Mark Tatro for an evening of trail closure and restoration efforts. Volunteers and city employees have done large amounts of work in the park, including erecting fences, installing signs, closing rouge trails and habitat restoration efforts…
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Happy Trails: Natural arch among little wonders at Colorado Springs park
Recently at Ute Valley Park, we ran into people asking for directions three times. “We always get lost here!” remarked one woman alongside her partner. She smiled, as if accepting this park on Colorado Springs’ north side. As if knowing that, yet again, she would find her way back to the parking lot. If not…