Seth Boster
Features Writer at The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)
Features at @csgazette/@denvergazette about the outdoors, people & places making Colorado colorful | [email protected]
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One day in the late 1990s, Colorado Springs history buff David Swint came across an old, dusty mug with a curious inscription. “Heidelberg Inn, Ramona, Colo.”Where was Ramona, Swint wondered. Ramona, it turns out, was a former town inside his current town. On Colorado Springs’ west side, around Thorndale Park and the neighborhood off Uintah and 24th streets, there was once a town built for one purpose, more or less: to keep the Wild West alive. This was in 1913, as prohibition won in Colorado City.
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1 week ago |
gazette.com | Seth Boster
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It's never too early to start planning for one of Colorado's seasonal, most anticipated natural phenomena. It is indeed early to start planning for Medano Creek — the waterway that only appears for a brief period every year, curiously "surging" and sending small waves to the base of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. The creek is the result of snowpack melting from the surrounding Sangre de Cristo mountains.
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gazette.com | Seth Boster
Back in 2009, Zac Wiebe was hiking near the foothills of northern Colorado, where today a dam rises close to its final height of 350 feet. "I recall a sign that actually stated the reservoir could be built as soon as 2009," Wiebe said. That would not be the case — not in the face of lengthy permitting and litigation against Chimney Hollow Reservoir, to be a smaller neighbor of Carter Lake and divert Colorado River water for the northern Front Range's growing populations.
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gazette.com | Seth Boster
A unique partnership aims to reduce wildfire risk while improving trails around one of Colorado’s most popular mountain towns — what some see as a model for the state beyond. The U.S. Forest Service is calling it the Town of Frisco Backyard Fuels and Recreation Project. The Backyard is what Summit County locals know as their backdrop, 3,000-plus acres encompassing Rainbow Lake, Miners Creek, Mount Royal and Ophir Mountain.
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