Although narrow single track, this rollicking lakeside route delivers fast and relatively easy access around most of the reservoir. Some technical single-track sections offer a thrill or two close to the water’s edge.
Colorado Recreation & Environment
A separate reality thrives in Boulder, Colorado
Boulder’s brilliance as a world-class recreation mecca is etched in stone as dramatically as the magnificent Flatirons rise from the rolling Colorado plains.
Treasure in the San Luis Valley: The golden horde
The San Luis Valley has had more than its share of unexplained occurrences. Combine this documentation with countless little-known myths and legends, and this remote region’s documented history, and you have served before you a feast of blatantly subtle examples of the mysterious, the outrageous and the sublime.
Colorado’s San Luis Valley
Notes from Christopher O’Brien about strange occurrences in Colorado’s San Luis Valley
Environmentalists oppose ‘Super Vail’ expansion
The proposed expansion would involve construction of four lifts and 885 acres of ski runs, 12.2 miles of service roads and a new restaurant. The Colorado Environmental Coalition believes this development would destroy or fragment most of the wildlife habitat in the area.
Chasing ski history on Colorado’s Trail of the Tenth
One of Colorado’s finest backcountry tours, the Trail of the Tenth, was actually the WWII training ground for a famous group of ski pioneers.
Drive and go to heaven at Purgatory, Wolf Creek
Light years from the corporate ski resorts along the I-70 corridor of central Colorado, Purgatory and Wolf Creek offer a divine reward for a little extra travel time — a touch of ski heaven