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With outdoor recreation tourism booming, towns pick up the tab for squeezed US Forest Service

VAIL, Colo. — The most popular trekking route in one of Colorado’s most-visited vacation cities snakes up a narrow valley throughout quivering aspen and fragrant pine trees. The views are picture-perfect in the wilderness area here — however on a summer months, this can be tough to bring a photo that plants out the audiences. […]

Breckenridge residents want popular, wooden troll sculpture removed

Breckenridge’s is however its lifespan might make cut short, as it seems the troll might soon fall victim. The buzz about media has been intense since the roughly troll, constructed of reclaimed wood, came up the Wellington Trail in Breckenridge for a summer arts festival. The pun ’s name is “Isak Heartstone,” given him by […]

6-mile hike leads to the largest concentration of natural arches this side of Utah

FRUITA — In Edward Abbey’s classic, “Desert Solitaire,” the seasonal ranger whined about the street building and modernization happening in Utah’s Arches National Park. “You can’t even see anything in a car,” he railed. “You’ve got to escape this (goshdarn) contraption and wander — better yet, creep — in your hands and knees, over the […]

Estes Park’s famed climber Tommy Caldwell recommends dumpster diving outside a Whole Foods

It was a query. A school student struggling with cash requested Estes Park’s climber Tommy Caldwell just how to find nutrition. “Dumpster dip at whole foods …lol,” Caldwelll replied. Caldwell and scaling partner Kevin Jorgeson chose to Reddit to answer questions from fellow climbers Thursday to encourage the Sept. 19 introduction of “The Dawn Wall,” […]