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This Old-School Town Hidden In The Midst Of The Colorado Mountains Is A Charming Gem With Art And Trails

Hidden deep in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, this former mining town is now an epic escape that offers high-elevation trails ...
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Monarch Mountain Reveals New Trail Map for Exciting Terrain Expansion

No Name Basin will add hundreds of acres and a dozen new trails to this Colorado Gem’s footprint. Monarch Mountain, Colorado isn’t the state’s most popular ski resort, but the down-home feel, ...
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Measuring Colorado’s Mountains, One Hike at a Time

In the middle of a chilly October night in 2025, my two friends and I suited up at the Cottonwood Creek trailhead and started a trek into the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado. It was a little ...

Colorado weather: More than a foot of snow expected in mountains

By 5 a.m. Thursday, 20 inches of snow is expected to fall on Mount Zirkel, the highest peak of Colorado’s Park Range of the ...