There’s nothing quite like opening the flap of your tent to the view of a lake, watching the rising sun’s warm glow dance across the water that reflects Colorado’s mountain
The roadway that takes you from the summit to the peak of Mount Blue Sky will not open in 2025 due to a planned improvement project, the USDA Forest Service announced Thursday.
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Colorado’s highest peaks draw plenty of attention and plenty of crowds, while down below some of the state’s most pristine, unspoiled nature affords true, splendid solitude.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names has received four proposals to change the name of Mount Evans, the 14,265-foot peak that honors John Evans, Colorado’s second territorial governor — and the man who created the climate that made the Sand Creek Massacre possible, according to an investigation of his actions by the University of Denver, which Evans founded in 1864. At dawn on November 29 of that year, approximately 675 U.S. volunteer soldiers commanded by Colonel John M. Chivington attacked a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians camped along Sand Creek; about 200 were killed, most of them women, children and elderly men.
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A F-35A fighter jet flies over the Air Force Academy Friday, April 17, 2020, to honor the Class of 2020. The senior cadets graduated early because of COVID-19 the next day on the terrazzo at the center of campus rather than Falcon Stadium. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) CHRISTIAN MURDOCK/THE GAZETTE
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The class of 2020 toss their hats into the air as the Thunderbirds fly over Saturday, April 18, 2020, at the conclusion of the Air Force Academy graduation on the terrazzo of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The graduation was a closed ceremony at the center of campus rather than Falcon Stadium to allow the cadets to stay 8 feet apart. The cadets didn't march on stage to receive their diplomas and high fives and hugs were banned. The academy graduated 967 cadets. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)