Outdoors

FUEL MITIGATION WORK SCHEDULED AT CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN STATE PARK

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Additional fuel mitigation work will begin at Cheyenne Mountain State Park Monday, Oct. 20. Visitors may experience some temporary trail closures while the mitigation is being completed. Crews will mitigate 100 acres near Zook Loop, Boulder Run, Talon, Medicine Wheel, Blackmer and South Talon trails. Weather will determine the length of…

Pumpkin Carving Party

The Fountain Creek Nature Center will be have a Pumpkin Carving Party and Jack-O-Lantern Trail on Saturday, October 25, 2014.  Pumpkin Carving will be from 9am to 12 noon.  $5/pumpkin and the Jack-O-Lantern Trail will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m.  Help build a lighted trail by carving a pumpkin at the nature center in the morning.  Leave it…

“WHAT’S THAT DUCK?“ BARR LAKE HOSTS WATERFOWL ID WORKSHOP IN THE SPRINGS

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Join Barr Lake State Park and bird experts from Ducks Unlimited and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory for a free class designed to help birding enthusiasts and hunters identify waterfowl species commonly found in Colorado. This hands-on workshop will be held Saturday, Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Colorado…

Fountain Creek Regional Park Volunteer Event

Please join us for an additional “Creek Week” clean-up day in one of our most popular neighborhood parks. We will be removing debris from the flood event last summer. Arrive at by 8 AM and get a continental breakfast and stay until Noon for a hot lunch! Fountain Creek needs your help! Please come join…

Hunters and Anglers Asked to Help Find Drowning Victim

PUEBLO, Colo. – Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Pueblo Police Department are asking hunters and anglers for help in recovering a missing drowning victim. Christopher Lynn Frazier, 23, fell off an inflatable tube in the Arkansas River near Pueblo June 2. Water levels at the time were high, running around 4,900 cubic feet per…

Briargate YMCA Turkey Trot

This Thanksgiving invite your friends and family to help those less fortunate. For over 17 years, the YMCA Turkey Trot Run/ Walk has helped raise money to support and help provide opportunities for lower income families to participate in YMCA programs and membership. All funds raised stay right here in our community and will provide…

Manitou Incline Trail Volunteer Workdays

Colorado Springs, CO – Are you having Incline Withdrawal?  Then come on up and help with the facelift!  The City of Colorado Springs has teamed up with the Incline Friends, the City of Manitou Springs, Friends of the Peak, REI, Rocky Mountain Field Institute, the Trails and Open Space Coalition, and YOU!  Although we will…

USA Cares Super Hero 5K Fun Run and Walk

Do you have a Super Hero who you’d like to honor?  Possibly your Super Hero is active duty, retired, prior service, deployed, fighting cancer, battling an illness or waiting for you in Heaven.  Or, is your Super Hero dedicated to bringing awareness to an illness or a mission?  Maybe it is your child, mom, husband or best friend who…

Artists Sought to Portray WOod DUck for Waterfowl Competition

DENVER, Colo. – Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation requests original artwork entries for the 2015 Colorado Waterfowl Stamp Art Contest. This year’s species of focus is the wood duck, Aix sponsa. The deadline for artist submissions is 4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 24. “It is amazing every year to see what…

Great Pumpkin Run at Venetucci Farm

The Pikes Peak Community Foundation is excited to present the Annual Great Pumpkin Run at Venetucci Farm. Come out for a great morning and run, walk, jog or just cheer our runners on!There will be a 5K and 10K Run. First 600 entries will receive a race cap. We will once again offer the Little…

Fountain Fall Festival and Parade

The Fountain Fall Festival is an annual event in the Fountain Valley area. The parade starts at 10 am along Santa Fe Avenue in front of Fountain-Fort Carson Middle School 515 N. Santa Fe Avenue, Fountain, CO. After the parade is the Fall Festival at Metcalfe Park with fun activities for the entire family from…

Magic Monarchs at Fountain Creek Nature Center

It is that time of year again! The monarch butterflies are visiting our neighborhood. Come down to Fountain Creek for a fun program, craft, and hike. Hopefully we will even get to catch, tag, and release some monarchs! Keep your eyes peeled for their caterpillars on the milkweed in the park and let the naturalists…

Body Recovered From Lake Pueblo Identified as Fountain Resident

PUEBLO, Colo. – The body of a 43 year-old man was pulled from the water Saturday morning at Lake Pueblo State Park. The man has been identified as Jack Nelson from Fountain, Colo. Nelson went missing Thursday afternoon after jumping into the water in Boggs Creek Cove. The search for him began Thursday evening but…

Ultimate Frisbee at Fort Carson

Ultimate Frisbee at Fort Carson Mountain Post Sports Complex on July 26, 2014.  Event is open to anyone with a DoD ID and 16 years and up. For more information call (719) 526-5772.

Fountain Creek Firelight Evening

Throughout history, Fountain Creek has drawn people from all walks of life to its banks. This watery highway of history, has quite a story! Join us at Fountain Creek Nature Center for an evening around the campfire (conditions permitting) and hear first-hand accounts and historical fiction of everyone from explorers to settlers. Hear live music…

Great Outdoors Colorado to Preserve 15,000 Acres

COLORADO- The Great Outdoors Colorado Board has approved seven grants that will preserve more than 15,000 acres in nine counties, which will create a new public open space near Colorado Springs and a mile of new public fishing access on the Arkansas River. Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) invests a portion of Colorado Lottery proceeds to…