Leadville Ice Palace
New Year’s Day, 1896. An enormous medieval castle opens in Leadville … made of ICE. The city hopes it brings in lots of tourist dollars to revive the flagging economy.
Colorado Postcards
With Colorado Postcards, we share brief insights into Colorado’s people and places, our flora and fauna, and our past and present, from every corner of Colorado.
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Ponderosa Pines
Stand on the sunny side of a Ponderosa pine. Breathe deep. One of the finest scents in Colorado comes from one of the sturdiest plants in the state.
Steamboat Lake
In the Elkhead Mountains of northern Colorado, Steamboat Lake will strike you first with its beauty. But a gentle hike through meadows and woods will lead you to its solemnity.
Project Rulison
At first, it seemed no one could stop Project Rulison — a plan from the US Atomic Energy Commission to frack Colorado’s natural gas with a nuclear detonation.
Mt Rosalie
The fourteener nearest Denver, Blue Sky used to be called Mount Evans after the governor responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre.
Mt Sherman
You don’t hear of planes landing on Colorado fourteeners, except the time a Cessna landed on Mount Sherman near Leadville, in January 1967.
Charles Dow
New England journalist Charles Dow had a gift for breaking down complicated financial information and news to make it understandable. In 1879, Dow was sent on assignment to Leadville.
Decalibron
The Decalibron … neither an ancient Greek sport nor a machine of science fiction, it’s a hiking trail that gets its name from the first syllables of Mounts Democrat, Cameron, […]
