Seth Boster

North Chamberlain Trail In its debut summer, the Blodgett Bike Hill appeared to be a hit. This is the hill on the north side of Colorado Springs that, as part of an expanded Blodgett Open Space, has drawn mountain bikers to lap some 7 miles of downhill bike-only trail ranging from fast and flowy to […]

RANGELY — Gazing at the 65-foot cylinder of rusted steel atop a remote, sandy hill in western Colorado, it was impossible to have any expectations of what we would experience inside. Suddenly, we escaped the desert heat of Rangely for a dark space cut by streamers of Technicolor light and filled with sound that is […]

It seems like yesterday Cerberus Brewing Co. opened to greatly raise the craft beer and food scene in Colorado Springs. Believe it or not, that was 10 years ago. Ten years deserves a party ー “an all-day, all-out, one-for-the-books kind of party,” as Cerberus is marking Saturday. Stop by or stick around for the anniversary […]

Tarantulas of southeast Colorado are out looking for love. And this is when we go looking for them. While it has always been a ritual around this time of year for big, fuzzy males to seek mates burrowed across the vast grassland beyond La Junta, it has increasingly become a spectacle for curious Coloradans near […]

In this weekly feature, we’re celebrating the best of Colorado Springs’ food and drink scene ー as determined by voters in the 2026 Best of the Springs (thebestofthesprings). We’ll throw in our own recommendation, too. Up this week: Mexican. Gold: The Rey It was a sad day in 2022 when the family behind downtown’s El […]

A “million-dollar breeze” is said to drift through DeBeque Canyon, blessing the peach trees of Palisade. For the special fruit, western Colorado farmers have cited other factors: warm days and cool nights that are said to similarly bless other parts of the state where famed produce grows. To be a Coloradan is to be an […]

A nonprofit stewarding Colorado’s biggest mountains recently marked its “largest and most expensive” project ever complete. That’s how Colorado Fourteeners Initiative referred to the job that is wrapping up a fifth summer on Mount Shavano. After about $2 million, 2 ½ miles of new trail and another 2 miles closed for restoration, CFI recently hosted […]

Thomas Trail West of Colorado Springs, the town of Green Mountain Falls lists Catamount Trail as “the Gem of GMF trails.” But not to be missed is a trail that connects to the lower part of that gem ー one that helped spark something of a trail revolution in this scenic little town. That’s the […]

Here’s one for hungry fans of period pieces: “My Brilliant Career.” Based on the novel of the same name by Miles Franklin, the new six-part Australian Netflix miniseries is set in rural Australia in 1900 and follows Sybella, a young farm girl who aches for a writing career. Her family and society’s expectations, along with […]

Photos from 100 years ago show cowboys on horseback lining Gunnison’s main street, which was dirt in those days. Tyler Hansen likes to look at these photos, to see his western Colorado hometown how it used to be. “It was just an Old West town,” he said. For a week every July, Gunnison resembles that […]