Cheyenne Mountain Holiday Open House

Cheyenne Mountain Holiday Open House

COLORADO SPRINGS — Cheyenne Mountain State Park is hosting its annual Holiday Open House this Saturday, Dec. 3, from 1 to 4 p.m.

The open house will kick off with a tree-lighting ceremony at 1 p.m., on the new patio located on the east side of the visitor center. Plans for the new patio include a relaxing area with picnic tables and a native garden. Nine evergreen trees have already been planted using funds from a grant given by the Broadmoor Garden Club.

Following the tree-lighting, families can enjoy a variety of indoor and outdoor activities. There will be self-guided scavenger hunts with prizes for kids, a craft table for kids to create a unique, handmade Christmas gift, cookie decorating, and of course, treats and hot cocoa to be enjoyed by the fire.

For attendees with Christmas shopping yet to do, all retail items in the visitor center will be 20% off during the open house. The visitor center offers a variety of items for the hard-to-shop-for outdoor enthusiast, from clothing to souvenirs to guidebooks to handmade local art. Each purchase over $20 comes with a free gift (while supplies last).

This month’s Art in the Park art exhibit features work from the local group Fresh Colour. Their beautiful work offers everything from ready-to-hang framed original pieces to one-of-a-kind holiday greeting cards. A portion of the proceeds from any art purchase benefits the Friends of Cheyenne Mountain State Park: a non-profit set up for helping the park raise funds for improvement projects not covered by state, lottery, Great Outdoors Colorado or grant funds.

The Holiday Open House is free to the public and no parks pass is required for parking at the visitor center, however, if attendees choose to enter further into the park, use the trails, picnic or camp, a pass is required.

This is a Friends of Cheyenne Mountain State Park-funded event.

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CPW is an enterprise agency, relying primarily on license sales, state parks fees and registration fees to support its operations, including: 42 state parks and more than 350 wildlife areas covering approximately 900,000 acres, management of fishing and hunting, wildlife watching, camping, motorized and non-motorized trails, boating and outdoor education. CPW’s work contributes approximately $6 billion in total economic impact annually throughout Colorado.

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