Ryan Spencer

1 week ago | summitdaily.com | Ryan Spencer

As Colorado residents and visitors begin planning summer trips, transportation officials are reminding travelers that summer is also road construction season in the mountains. Beginning in June, work on critical infrastructure projects will have noticeable impacts on travel along some popular routes, according to a news release from the Colorado Department of Transportation.

1 week ago | skyhinews.com | Ryan Spencer

Use of psilocybin — the psychedelic compound found in “magic mushrooms” — has doubled among U.S. adults since Denver began decriminalizing the drug in 2019, according to researchers with Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety. Joshua Black, one of the authors of the peer-reviewed study published last month in the Annals of Internal Medicine, explained that researchers used 2019 as a reference point because that was the first time a government in the U.S. had decriminalized psilocybin.

1 week ago | summitdaily.com | Ryan Spencer

Use of psilocybin — the psychedelic compound found in “magic mushrooms” — has doubled among U.S. adults since Denver began decriminalizing the drug in 2019, according to researchers with Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety. Joshua Black, one of the authors of the peer-reviewed study published last month in the Annals of Internal Medicine, explained that researchers used 2019 as a reference point because that was the first time a government in the U.S. had decriminalized psilocybin.

1 week ago | aspentimes.com | Ryan Spencer

More than 125 years ago, decades before Colorado became the popular tourist destination it is today, the people of Leadville dreamt up a grand vision to attract visitors from around the world: building a palace out of ice. In her new book, “The 1896 Leadville Ice Palace,” Colorado author and historian Afton Rorvik describes how Leadville city leaders decided to build an elaborate ice palace, constructed it in a matter of weeks and invited the world to see it.

1 week ago | summitdaily.com | Ryan Spencer

Both the Dillon Reservoir and the Green Mountain Reservoir are expected to reach capacity this summer, Colorado Division of Water Resources division engineer James Heath said at the State of the River in Silverthorne on Thursday, May 22. The Dillon Reservoir, Denver Water’s largest reservoir, supplies water to Denver and the Front Range through the Roberts Tunnel, which crosses beneath the Continental Divide.