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Parks seek change to TOPS fund use
For the third time since 2009, Colorado Springs parks officials plan to ask voters to change the Trails, Open Space and Parks tax, allowing the city to spend more on park maintenance and renovations. The measure would not raise the one-tenth of a...... Full story
Pikes Peak Highway opens to cyclists
As our avid local cyclists would say: Pedal on! Colorado Springs and the U.S. Forest Service have agreed to open the Pikes Peak Highway to cyclists Jan. 1. The winding highway from Cascade to the 14,115-foot summit has been closed to cyclists...... Full story
Plan would ban bikes, horses on trail to Cheyenne Mountain summit
People will be able to hike from Cheyenne Mountain State Park to the top of its namesake mountain someday, but not ride a mountain bike or horse, under a management plan unveiled Wednesday for the park. A trail from the system of trails at the...... Full story
Proposed dirt bike ban in Bear Creek area on hold
A federal judge has rejected a settlement that would have temporarily banned dirt bikes on a popular trail network in the Bear Creek drainage just west of Colorado Springs. Environmental group the Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S....... Full story
Mountain bikers seek to thwart ban from Colorado Trail
Local mountain bikers have joined a growing opposition to a plan to ban bikes from a section of the Colorado Trail in the Rio Grande National Forest. The plan to reroute a section of the trail, also part of the Continental Divide National Scenic...... Full story
Teva out as sponsor of Mountain Games competitions
The Teva Mountain Games in Vail have lost their title sponsor for the winter and appear to be moving forward without the shoe brand for the popular summer event. The summer games has grown since its 2002 roots into an international showcase of...... Full story
Springs' Compton wins 2nd World Cup cyclocross race of season
Colorado Springs resident Katie Compton (Trek Cyclocross) recorded her second elite women's win in a UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup race this season on Saturday in Koksijde, Belgium. Amy Dombroski, of Boulder (Young Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team), placed...... Full story
County and state park plans will be unveiled this week
** If you're interested in learning what is going on and what is planned for El Paso County's parks, plan to join a meeting Tuesday night at Bear Creek Nature Center. Park officials have talked to local residents about our parks, trails, open...... Full story
Search turns up lost mountain biker near Cañon City
Fremont County authorities searched into the night Saturday to rescue a lost mountain biker outside Cañon City. The bicyclist, who was found unharmed at 3 a.m., had been riding trails in the area of Shelf Road north of Cañon City with...... Full story
Forest Service settles with environmental group, agrees to ban dirt bikes
Bowing to a lawsuit by an environmental group, the U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday agreed to ban dirt bikes on a popular trail system in Colorado Springs to protect an endangered fish. The Center for Biological Diversity sued the agency in spring,...... Full story
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