Category: America – West

Basic Trail Information Name: Hornbek Homestead Trail Where: Florissant National Monument, CO Distance: .5 mile Difficulty: easy Time: 30 minutes round-trip More Info: Florissant Fossil Beds N.M. website

Basic Trail Information Name: Siamese Twins Trail Where: Colorado Springs, CO Distance: 1.0 mile Difficulty: easy (100 feet elevation gain) Time: 45 minutes round-trip More Info: Garden of the

Basic Trail Information Name: Red Rock Canyon Open Space Where: Colorado Springs, CO Distance: About 3.5 miles Difficulty: easy to moderate (400 feet elevation gain) Time: 2.5 hours

The city of Colorado Springs is surrounded by a number of hiking trails and one of the more popular trails to visit is Helen Hunt Falls located in North

One of my favorite cities in Colorado is Manitou Springs located at the base of Pikes Peak just outside of the major city in the region, Colorado Springs:

Putting together my prior posting about my winter time visit to the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs inspired me to go ahead and take my family

Below are some photos I recently took of the Garden of the Gods after a snow fall earlier this week.  I was hoping to see more snow on

This is a picture I took about a week ago of a large forest fire burning on the slopes of Fisher’s Peak outside of Trinidad, Colorado.  The forest

I really like how this picture I took from the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs turned out.  The streaking clouds really provided a nice contrasting backdrop

Billy the Kid is a complex character that has been romanticized over the decades, but he is without a doubt a criminal and shouldn’t be pardoned: The showdown