Devil’s Head
For fire-watchers on the Front Range, there may be no better place than Devil’s Head.Devil’s Head rises 9300 feet west of Castle Rock.
Colorado Postcards
With Colorado Postcards, we share brief insights into Colorado’s people and places, our flora and fauna, and our past and present, from every corner of Colorado.
Cherry Creek, or Chokecherry Creek?
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Shed antlers
Most deer antlers have eight points, but in 2021 a hunter took down a 26-POINT buck west of Colorado Springs.
Solid Muldoon
Beulah, 1877. Two men unearth a giant. Seven and a half feet tall, 600 pounds, a petrified humanoid from prehistoric Colorado.
East High
Denver’s first public high school began in a leaky one-room log cabin with thirteen students. By 1875 it officially became East Denver High School.
Phantom Canyon
Do phantoms really roam Phantom Canyon Road? Reports of apparitions abound on what used to be the railroad from Florence to Cripple Creek.
Coffin Races
Thunder … rain … mud… A coffin breaks loose from the earth and tumbles into Manitou Springs.
Creede Repertory Theatre
The Creede Opera House was built to show movies to miners. But by the mid-’60s, as both mining and the town seemed tapped out, the opera house was boarded up.
Potatoes
Rufus Clark came to Colorado in the Gold Rush and found treasure in potatoes! “Potato King” Clark’s first wagonload sold for fifteen hundred dollars, a fortune in 1860.
