This mellow hike north of Nederland, Colo. offers a peaceful stroll through a large Rocky Mountain meadow, with a short side trail leading to an old silver mining camp.
Colorado Recreation & Environment
White Ranch’s Rawhide trail traverses lush hills, meadows
The Rawhide trail in White Ranch outside of Golden, Colo. is an easy 4.8-mile hike.
The many faces of Golden’s North Table Mountain Park
Hiking this quiet Golden, Colo. landmark puts the visitor high above the Front Range.
Rocky Flats Nat’l Wildlife Refuge: Remembering to not forget
Chapters in the long Rocky Flats story include decades of weapons-grade plutonium production, fires, an FBI raid, closure of the facility, more than a dozen years of cleanup activities, and countless studies by government agencies.
Mountain pine beetle: Grim Reaper, widowmaker or natural ‘change agent’ for Colorado’s forests?
The tiny mountain pine beetle has feasted on Colorado’s lodgepole pine forests, turning countless acres of trees into dead wood. An autumn presentation on the tiny but powerful bug shed some light on how Colorado’s majestic forests will be impacted by the beetle infestation.
Wildfires in the West: From fanatical fire suppression to ‘stay & defend’
The history of wildfire and fire suppression in the U.S. is replete with stories of hubris, disaster and miscalculation. Stephen Pyne of Arizona State University shared some thoughts during a lecture in Boulder.
The Ditch Project: Man-made tributaries of Boulder County transform natural landscape
By taming the water cascading down from the high mountains, water engineers turned the high-altitude, semi-arid desert of short-grass prairie into a lush, green urban landscape surrounded by irrigated farmland.