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Lessons from the Great Colorado Route’s 2,000-plus miles: gazette.com/2026/10/15/lesso… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Lessons from the Great Colorado Route’s 2,000-plus miles

Donovan Rice's self-charted and -titled Great Colorado Route ended this month. The loop saw him cover some of Colorado's most iconic and most overlooked places.

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What could Maroon Bells management mean for public lands in Colorado? gazette.com/2026/10/07/what-… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

What could Maroon Bells management mean for public lands in Colorado?

Federal and local officials see a change in land management setting the stage for better stewardship at one of Colorado’s most iconic destinations. Others see the move setting a dangerous precedent....

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A Colorado couple’s quest to spread the love of 13ers: gazette.com/2026/10/02/a-col… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

A Colorado couple’s quest to spread the love of 13ers

"The Climbing Cooneys" is the name that welcomes visitors to climb13ers.com, showcasing a lifetime spent together by Tim and Carrie Cooney across Colorado's peaks above 13,000 feet.

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Flying W Ranch: A western tradition triumphs over tragedy in Colorado Springs gazette.com/2026/09/29/flyin… ... via @csgazette

Flying W Ranch: A tradition triumphs over tragedy in Colorado Springs

The crowd has moved through the line, filling trays with chicken, brisket, potatoes, beans, biscuits and applesauce made just the way an adoring mother made it more than 70 years ago. Now the people...

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This story is a credit to @D_Bo20 and the Robinson Family. They want to tell you about Eli. They're hoping it helps others. It's worth remembering: “Maybe we can all be a little less certain about knowing what someone is going through." nytimes.com/athletic/7617243…

An improbable NBA breakthrough, a descent into darkness: ‘We weren’t all that different’ (Gift...

Behind Duncan Robinson’s unlikely ascent was a hidden second life — a decade spent as his brother's quiet lifeline.

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For decades at the Colorado Renaissance Festival, this guy has been taking tomatoes to the face. Why? gazette.com/2026/09/16/veget…

Vegetable Justice: A tradition like no other at Colorado Renaissance Festival

LARKSPUR — Beside a giant rocking horse and maze, and not far from the jousting arena and unicorn, a crowd gathers to see a man take tomatoes to the face. At least this is the goal for participants...

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Ghosts of Colorado’s mining past, fall colors and more along this scenic trail off Interstate 70: gazette.com/2026/09/15/ghost… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Ghosts of Colorado’s mining past, fall colors and more along this scenic trail off Interstate 70

SILVER PLUME • High on a rocky perch overlooking Interstate 70 and the mountains stands a monument in honor of a mysterious man and a certain time and place in Colorado.  This is the Griffin Monume...

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The fire that fueled and also marred his Hall of Fame basketball career never left Rick Barry. And so his life has been complicated. gazette.com/2026/08/22/the-f… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

The fire still burns in Rick Barry, Colorado Springs' complicated basketball legend 

The boys here in a Colorado Springs neighborhood don’t really know the man. They just know the basketball court in his backyard, where they are always welcome to play. Here’s Rick Barry now.  “Your...

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Fall drives, hikes and more: 6 base camps for colors in Colorado: gazette.com/2026/09/11/fall-… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Fall drives, hikes and more: 6 base camps for colors in Colorado 

Fall is all too fleeting in Colorado. It’s only for a brief time that our dearest aspens shine before shedding their leaves.  And so we should cherish the time. We should stick around scenic towns at...

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Map quest: New book brings centuries-old maps to light in tracing little-known Colorado history gazette.com/2026/09/04/map-q… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Map quest: New book brings centuries-old maps to light in tracing little-known Colorado history 

P.J. Anderson spent the better part of two years tracking down hundreds of maps long predating Colorado’s statehood in 1876 as part of a mission that took him to private collections, museums and...

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One of Colorado's most historic places is going to look different. That's the only thing that seems certain about the future of Bent's Old Fort: gazette.com/2026/09/03/color… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Colorado's Bent's Old Fort is 'endangered.' Officials are reimagining its future

On Colorado’s southeast plains, a relic of the Old West could be significantly rehabilitated or rebuilt. Or some of the adobe building could be retained or all of it torn down, with only a marked...

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Fat Marmot Week has a winner. But the struggle for survival continues: gazette.com/2026/08/31/fat-m… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Fat Marmot Week has a winner but the struggle for survival continues

The fattest marmot has been crowned.  After three rounds of bracket-style voting and social media buzz, Dawn emerged victorious from Fat Marmot Week, which was hosted for the first time by Colorado’s...

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Venturing to a sandy beach above 10,000 feet in Colorado's mountains: gazette.com/2026/08/28/ventu… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Venturing to a sandy beach above 10,000 feet in Colorado’s mountains

Imagine laying out your beach towel, digging your toes in the sand and catching some rays while serenading water laps against the shore above 10,000 feet near treeline in Colorado’s Rockies.  You can...

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Much is on the mind of #ColoradoSprings' "minded chef," much that weighs him down. The dream of a Michelin star keeps him up. gazette.com/2026/08/09/amid-…

Amid hardship, a Colorado Springs chef's relentless Michelin pursuit

This story contains references to suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK  to 741741....

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Feedback shows ‘growing sense of danger’ at sand dunes in Colorado. New management aims to resolve: gazette.com/2026/08/26/feedb… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Feedback shows 'growing sense of danger’ at sand dunes in Colorado. New management aims to resolve

A scenic site of sand dunes in northwest Colorado has also been a site of reckless behavior and danger. New land management aims to change that.  This was the message of a recent meeting in Walden as...

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Here’s a great piece on the great Rick Barry, including mentions of Soul Power! gazette.com/2026/08/22/the-f…

The fire still burns in Rick Barry, Colorado Springs' complicated basketball legend 

The boys here in a Colorado Springs neighborhood don’t really know the man. They just know the basketball court in his backyard, where they are always welcome to play. Here’s Rick Barry now.  “Your...

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Meet El Paso County’s new parks director, tasked with top destinations and bold initiatives: gazette.com/2026/08/19/meet-… ... via @csgazette

Meet El Paso County’s new parks director, tasked with top destinations and bold initiatives

Since starting this summer as executive director of the El Paso County Parks Department, Janna Tidwell has kept a pair of hiking boots in her car.  “When I’ve had some down time in between meetings,...

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Fat Marmot Week? Fat Marmot Week. gazette.com/2026/08/19/intro… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Introducing Fat Marmot Week, a celebration of Colorado’s chunky alpine dwellers

Over the past decade, Fat Bear Week has been a viral sensation ー a bracket-style competition in which people vote for the burliest of bears photographed at Katmai National Park and Preserve in...

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Summer has seen an unusual wave of fishing closures across #Colorado, where streams are running low, making them more susceptible to trout-killing heat. July ended with a broad call for anglers "to adjust practices." gazette.com/2026/08/05/troub… ... via @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Troubled waters: Closures, cautions cast cloud over fishing season in Colorado

Amid the heat of mid-July in Colorado Springs, about a dozen rainbow trout floated in a pond outside Angler’s Covey, lifeless. “We just couldn’t keep our pond cool enough, even with trying to keep...

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Celebrating Colorado’s 150th birthday with 150 miles of classic trail: gazette.com/2026/07/30/celeb… ... @csgazette/@DenverGazette

Celebrating Colorado’s 150th birthday with 150 miles of classic trail

Colorado’s trail mileage is as endless as the sky on a classic, bluebird day, as vast and varied as the elevations and wilds that joined the Union on Aug. 1, 1876. Colorado’s 150th anniversary of...

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