Hackberry Hill
A single tree once stood guard over a hill in Arvada – a hackberry. For early settlers it was a landmark, its twisted trunk a seat for weary travelers.
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.
Want to learn more about how Colorado Postcards are made? Creators Jon Pinnow and Gillian Coldsnow share the behind-the-scenes scoop in an interview with "Colorado Matters."
Latest Episodes
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.
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.
