Garden of the Gods, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a national landmark known for its stunning scenery and hiking ...

In my column in the Jan. 23 edition of The Independent, I wrote about the many features in the EXPLORE Act, a single piece of recently passed federal legislation that simplifies, standardizes and ...

Planning a Red Rock Canyon and Garden of the Gods day trip? These two Colorado Springs gems are just minutes apart and ...

In August 2023, Brandt Holmes posted a photo of himself, family members, and friends climbing Pikes Peak on Facebook. When Jan Thom came across the post from her home in Michigan — her childhood ...

Every summer, thousands of people make the curvy, sometimes nerve-wracking journey to the summit of one of Colorado’s most iconic “fourteeners”: Pikes Peak. Unlike most other fourteeners, there’s more ...

MUSKEGON, MI - A Muskegon woman is sharing her story of completing a 12-mile hike up Colorado’s Pikes Peak Mountain, despite being legally blind. Jan Thom made the trek up 14,115 feet in two days this ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — The 103rd Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was cut short on Sunday due to inclement weather on the summit, forcing race officials to move the finish line from the ...

Warming temperatures and earlier snowmelt are disrupting the long-running relationship between wildflowers and their ...