Tag: Winter Guide 2024
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Cozy glamping escapes: Enjoy the ultimate winter yurt experience at these 6 Colorado state parks
It’s natural to dip into one of Colorado’s scenic, soothing hot springs and want to stick around. Fortunately, several destinations around the state offer overnight accommodations — from the expected to the unexpected. Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort, Nathrop Front and center is the lodge complete with modern spoils you’d expect at a hotel. Other…
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Snow Mountain Ranch: Colorado’s ‘5,000-acre memory maker’ of endless winter fun
The road weaves through young pines, short enough that the view is unobstructed: the Continental Divide, Indian Peaks and high points of this western side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The sky seems endless above. And below, a snowy canvas of endless possibilities. A sign along the road points the way: “Now entering the 5,000-acre…
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Cozy glamping escapes: Enjoy the ultimate winter yurt experience at these 6 Colorado state parks
At the center of the glamping craze across Colorado and beyond are yurts. These are the round, wood-framed tents paneled by windows looking out to surrounding beauty and topped by skylights letting in the stars and the moon. Once refuges fashioned by Serbian and Mongolian nomads, yurts are now the highly sought, highly Instagrammed abodes…
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Catching up with Colorado’s famous wild ice chaser
Laura Kottlowski is, first and foremost, an explorer. “And skating is a lot of times my vehicle,” she says. That’s the opportunity that drives her to Colorado’s winter backcountry — the opportunity to skate atop a frozen alpine lake. Kottlowski is Colorado’s famous wild ice skater. Her social media following has boomed for the better…
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Colorado town to love in winter: Pagosa Springs
“Pagosa” derives from a Ute word said to mean “healing waters.” Settlers would flock, overtaking unobstructed grounds forever roamed by tribes, and a town would rise around these bubbling waters in southwest Colorado. Army surveyor and explorer Capt. James Macomb was one who came by this mountainous, river-streaked land where steam rose into the sulfur-smelling…
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Ice Castles by the numbers: A look at ‘fairy-tale’ attraction coming to Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Bringing fairy tales to life.” That’s the slogan of Ice Castles, the company behind colorful, icy, LED-lit wonderlands at select locations around the country. The fairy tale is set to expand in Colorado this winter. In addition to returning to Cripple Creek for a second…
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Ice Castles by the numbers: A look at ‘fairy-tale’ attraction coming to Colorado
“Bringing fairy tales to life.” That’s the slogan of Ice Castles, the company behind colorful, icy, LED-lit wonderlands at select locations around the country. The fairy tale is set to expand in Colorado this winter. In addition to returning to Cripple Creek for a second season, the company will add a location in Eagle off…
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Snow Mountain Ranch: Colorado’s ‘5,000-acre memory maker’ of endless winter fun
GRANBY • The road weaves through young pines, short enough that the view is unobstructed: the Continental Divide, Indian Peaks and high points of this western side of Rocky Mountain National Park. The sky seems endless above. And below, a snowy canvas of endless possibilities. A sign along the road points the way: “Now entering…
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Powder primer: Updates and must-dos across Colorado’s ski areas
ARAPAHOE BASIN What’s new: In what it calls “the best and only method to improve our arrival experience,” A-Basin will be charging for parking reservations, starting at $20, on weekends and holidays between Dec. 21-May 4. Mountain stats: 13,050-foot summit, 10,520-foot base Where to eat: 6th Alley Bar & Grill is the spot for Bloody Marys…
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Colorado town to love in winter: Walden
In this internet age where nothing is secret, where Colorado’s wonders can’t hide from social media, how can a hidden gem stay hidden? Perhaps, for one, by the limits of geography. Take the geography around Walden, for example. The Front Range masses might arrive to this northern Colorado hamlet via the long, winding drive through…