A great spot to take visiting guests, the Starsmore Visitor and Nature Center in North Cheyenne Cañon Park is also a fun escape for Colorado Springs locals.

Recently, The Broadmoor invited me for a behind-the-scenes tour of the resort’s extensive food and beverages services. My host and guide was David Patterson, The Broadmoor’s disarmingly humble and authentic executive chef. Along the tour — one both extensive and transparent — it clicked. I…

Editor's note: Since the writing of this article, the Colorado Springs Bridge Center has closed temporarily due to several members testing positive for COVID-19 recently. Read an Aug. 4 update by our sister paper, The Gazette, here.

“Cheyenne Mountain is a magnificent gatepost, marking the entrance to the great Front Range. Covering its body to the north are the scars of many trails leading far below to the great canons, in whose depths were fought many (Native American) battles,” wrote Henry Russell Wray in a 1904 arti…

When someone is truly enthusiastic about his job, it shows. That’s certainly the case with Dr. David Peak, the new superintendent of Cheyenne Mountain School District 12.

People are pausing. They’re outdoors and acting out of the ordinary — they’re singing, doing jumping jacks, touching their toes, shaking their hands all around. They’re smiling and laughing. What’s going on?