Billy Barr has braved the fourth season deep in the Rocky Mountains for more than 50 years, amassing tons of climate data.

In Evergreen, two of an eventual eight luxury treehouses are ready to welcome guests at the Juniper Lodge & Treehouses.

Winter is coming in Denver, which means the mountains are calling all skiers. But what about the rest of us? The ones who like the snow and cold but aren’t interested in downhill mountain sports. We ...

Rocky Mountain National Park has been overrun with visitors for years. Throw social distancing measures into the mix and thinning the herd becomes even more complicated—and necessary. It’s a late ...

Travelers are flocking to the West for what its wide-open spaces lack: light pollution. From savvy rural towns that have gone dark to attract such tourists to protected places where visitors can watch ...

Inside Denver’s New Vinyl Record Pressing Plant Vinyl Me, Please, the Denver-based record-of-the-month club, will open its own record pressing plant in RiNo this year. We go inside the art and science ...

Michelle Vanek disappeared on Mt. of the Holy Cross in 2005, setting off the largest search for a missing hiker in state history. The trail went cold—until an all-women team reopened the case. Vail ...

The Boulder athlete claims to have developed a radical recipe to revolutionize long-distance running. I decided to find out if his training program would make me faster on the trails—and, maybe, ...

A rendering of the River Mile project, on the site of the current Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park, created by Shears Adkins Rockmore Architects (SA+R), Wenk Associates, & Dialog Design. Photo ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Race has long been a lightning rod for Denver Public Schools (DPS). In 1970, DPS buses were bombed following ...

We tapped seasoned hikers, consulted guidebooks, pored over topo maps, and scrutinized our trail photos to bring you this manual to our home’s most impressive footpaths, all of which are Class 3 or ...