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With outdoor recreation tourism booming, towns pick up the tab for squeezed US Forest Service

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VAIL, Colo. — The most popular trekking route in one of Colorado’s most-visited vacation cities snakes up a narrow valley throughout quivering aspen and fragrant pine trees. The views are picture-perfect in the wilderness area here — however on a summer months, this can be tough to bring a photo that plants out the audiences.
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How college students can do Aspen on the cheap while still learning a thing or two

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After I was done using all the day&rsquo lesson, among my students taught me something. Lijin stayed I teach at Colorado State University to reveal photographs of her weekend at Aspen. “Look at the colors! ” she stated, pointing out an hillside of rsquo & town;s golden namesake climbing above orange brush and rusty red.
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Breckenridge residents want popular, wooden troll sculpture removed

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Breckenridge’s is however its lifespan might make cut short, as it seems the troll might soon fall victim. The buzz about media has been intense since the roughly troll, constructed of reclaimed wood, came up the Wellington Trail in Breckenridge for a summer arts festival. The pun ’s name is “Isak Heartstone,” given him by
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6-mile hike leads to the largest concentration of natural arches this side of Utah

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FRUITA — In Edward Abbey’s classic, “Desert Solitaire,” the seasonal ranger whined about the street building and modernization happening in Utah’s Arches National Park. “You can’t even see anything in a car,” he railed. “You’ve got to escape this (goshdarn) contraption and wander — better yet, creep — in your hands and knees, over the
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Colorado’s fall colors are beginning to explode. Here’s where to start aspen peeping.

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Care, Front Range leaf-lovers: As drought conditions in Colorado interrupt the time of the annual fall-colors burst, the aspens in Clear Creek County are ready to inspire awe. “They’re beautiful,” stated Cassandra Carroll, who operates at the U.S. Forest Service Visitors Center in Idaho Springs. “They’re at their peak, however there are patches on Guanella
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Exploring the Lesser-Known Zapata Falls Near The Great Sand Dunes

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Every summer crowds of campers make their way to Alamosa County to visit the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Reserve. On their way to the park, many pass right by another great camping destination filled with amazing hikes and beautiful views. Sitting just 12 miles South of the Great Sand Dunes is the lesser-known
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Peer into the heavens from an Ancestral Puebloan astronomical site in Colorado’s Chimney Rock

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PAGOSA SPRINGS — A blinding bolt of light zigzagged from a leaden sky. A cracking boom thundered three seconds later. “We need to get everyone off the mountain immediately,” our guide shouted. My wife and I dived into our parked car and began descending the twisty, 3-mile gravel roadway. A Noah-worthy deluge greeted us as
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