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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.

Denver decided last year not to renew a contract with the family that had operated Echo Lake Lodge beneath Mt. Evans for decades.

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,...