Seth Boster

Near Leadville, Ski Cooper is scheduled to kick off its season Dec. 11 in what will be the first day of a new deal: $45 lift tickets Mondays-Thursdays, regardless if one buys online in advance or at the window.

The mountains outside our door. A more distant basecamp for adventure. A stretch of the Colorado Trail and newly public land waiting to be explored.

Every half hour and hour, a home in Colorado Springs comes to life.

Jim Bishop, creator of Bishop Castle in southern Colorado, has died at 80. He leaves behind a legendary roadside attraction. And a complicated legacy.

Every half hour and hour, a home in Colorado Springs comes to life.

A new trail has opened around the Black Forest pines northeast of Colorado Springs.

For nearly 30 years, University of Colorado Boulder athletes and everyday folk alike have gotten their breakfast fill at The Buff

Amid some local angst, planners of a scenic gondola and mountain bike trail network in Colorado's central mountains are celebrating "another little piece of the puzzle." That's how Mary Jane Loevlie described Idaho Springs voters approving a land swap in this month's general election.

Durango-based author Eilene Lyon traveled across Colorado to many of the state's oldest burial places. The result is "What lies Beneath Colorado: Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards."

As more Colorado ski resorts open this month, here's a look at some notable developments and updates for the season ahead from Aspen to Monarch to Crested Butte to Vail and Breckenridge.

There is a nostalgic pleasure to “Music by John Williams,” the documentary taking us to familiar scenes of “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park” and other moments of our memory, as

The U.S. Forest Service recently announced tree cutting permits for sale, applying to certain times and areas across national forests. That includes national forests closest to Front Range families: Pike and San Isabel National Forests and Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests.

Just as winter is about skiing in the mountains in Colorado, it’s about finding comfort back home. It’s about finding a taste of home — that heavy chow that brings

Douglas County open spaces: 6 to see between Colorado Springs and Denver

Eldora Mountain this season will debut the Caribou Lodge, which will serve as the new center for a long-going nonprofit getting people with disabilities out on the snow. Ignite Adaptive Sports will have state-of-the-art digs that would have been hard to imagine in the 1970s, when what was then called the Eldora Handicapped Recreation Program started out of a van.

Just as winter is about skiing in the mountains in Colorado, it’s about finding comfort back home. It’s about finding a taste of home — that heavy chow that brings

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The city added 4,700-plus linear feet to Bear Creek Regional Trail, extending it from the boundaries of El Paso County's Bear Creek Regional Park. The extension reaches up to Gold Camp Road, where a runner or cyclist might venture on. (Stephanie's Trail, for one, provides a nice loop around Bear Creek Canon.)

Along Interstate 25 between Colorado Springs and Castle Rock, urban sprawl ends and land and sky prevail. Driving this stretch means more to some people. People like Mark Weston.

Douglas County open spaces: 6 to see between Colorado Springs and Denver