Colorado Springs is second, and Aurora ranks first, with 6.5 percent, or 18,691 DIC residents more than a half-mile walk from parks, trails or water access locations.

A new, interactive tool aims to educate first-time visitors to the outdoors around north-central Colorado while also pointing to lesser-known destinations. A map by a multi-jurisdiction ...

Hikers study the new map for the Red Hill Recreation Area north of Carbondale on Sept. 1, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic drove an explosion in outdoor recreation in Colorado.

Colorado’s world-class elk herd in bull’s-eye of outdoor recreation boom, report warns Sportsmen’s group says recreation trails overlap with 40% of elk’s most important habitat ...

Kids play in the Poudre River Whitewater Park near downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, on Oct. 20, 2023. Some river advocates say legal protections for Colorado’s rivers should be expanded to include ...

Colorado Springs has officially opened select urban and regional trails to Class 1 electric bicycles (e-bikes). This marks a ...

Recreation.gov offers permits for people who want to cut down Christmas trees 00:29. People who are interested in cutting down their own Christmas trees in the wild this year in Colorado can do so ...

S pend one minute in the Curecanti National Recreation Area and you'll likely agree that it's among the best destinations to visit in Colorado.Going toe to toe with the likes of Rocky Mountain ...

Outdoor recreation remains a billion-dollar industry . Last year, outdoor recreation generated $65.8 billion in economic output for the state economy, and recreationists in Colorado spent over $52.1 ...