Six easy, beautiful hiking trails in and around Colorado Springs to explore in any season!

If you want to visit popular parks or trails over the summer, the winter months are the ideal time to start planning that outdoor adventure.

Read about this lakeside trail at the base of the tallest peak in Colorado that leads to a late 19th century historic resort!

Eleven Mile Canyon Recreation Area, conveniently located an hour away from Colorado Springs, boasts many activities for the outdoor lover.

I’ve learned to stop relying on trail ratings because the simplistic rating system is subjective at best and not meant for disabled bodies.

In the middle of our first Colorado winter, I could think of no better place to visit than the warm red rock wilderness of southeastern Utah

Stacia and I walked along the trail, poking our heads into Talus House, climbing wooden ladders into the few cavetes the NPS allows visitors

Other than a quiet, peaceful hike, here are five reasons to get out early on your trek to Zapata Falls in southern Colorado.

February 4th, 2021 Identifying trails that are appropriate for the hiker with a disability is easier said than done, right? Finding easy,...

January 9th, 2020 I’m confident that 2020 will be a year to remember, for the most obvious reasons. The pandemic and the resulting...

As we walked slowly up the trail, eyes and ears on alert for more deer or wildlife, we saw the buck jump back on the trail and join the two

I wanted to spend the entire day on these trails, exploring along the river, then further up the hillside into the Aspen grove, then deeper

In Hermosa, we followed a sign for the Haviland Lake State Wildlife Area to Wagon trail. A plaque at the trailhead explains how this trail

As it turns out, hiking as a form of exercise has a lot more to offer than indoor exercise routines. So how does hiking affect your overall

San Pedro Parks Wilderness is this lush, green 40,000+ acre wilderness area within the Santa Fe National Forest. The wilderness is named for

Even in the high-elevation desert around Albuquerque, it’s not wise to be hiking out in an open, unshaded area during the summer months

Chronic pain, unlike acute pain caused by short-term illness or injury, cannot easily be rested, iced, and medicated away either.

The Las Conchas trail weaves closely along the river with multiple shaky wooden bridges for trail crossings, surrounded by strips of grassy

From up here, we could observe the wilderness area around us, the line of the mountains reaching south past the city boundaries, and the web

This landscape that I see, framed by limbs and pine needles, may look radically different in years to come--not the geology of it, but...