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Hiking Cherry Creek State Park
I’ve lived in the Denver metropolitan area for nine years and had not set foot in Cherry Creek State Parkuntil today. The park, which is popular with water sports enthusiasts, hikers and bikers, sits right in the middle of the greater metro area, and I’ve drive by it tons of times, but it’s always been […]
Hiking Eldorado Canyon State Park
I’m going to make it a point to get back up to Eldorado Canyon State Park this summer to do another couple of hikes. I was there just this past week with a friend and a visiting journalist from Germany to do a hike and I really enjoyed it. But one hike in there seemed […]
Rocky Mountain National Park Snowshoeing
I finally went snowshoeing, something that I had been wanting to do for the last several years I’ve lived in Colorado. It was a difficult trek, taking us to about 10,000 feet about sea level, to Mills Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. But, once there, the view did not disappoint. Mike, our guide, was […]
Touring the Denver Zoo
The other day I had a discussion with a friend about zoos when I told him that I was going to go to a free day offered by the Denver Zoo, which so happened to be today. My friend believes that zoos are inhumane and essentially take the animal out of the animal. They become […]
Aspen Hunting on the Peak-to-Peak
This past week the Rocky Mountain News ran a special section on good spots to see Colorado’s golden Aspen trees by driving, hiking and biking. I was interested in getting out to see the colors already, so this was all the extra incentive I needed. I had never driven on the Peak-to-Peak Highway (Colorado Highway […]
Learning About Colorado at the History Museum
This summer I’ve tried to make a better effort to visit some of the local museums and sites and try to further my knowledge of Denver and Colorado. I figure I have no excuse not to with three day weekends. This past Thursday I made my second trip to the Colorado History Museum. A few years […]
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