A Massive Piece of Land Art Is Transforming 160 Acres of Colorado Land

A United Airlines pilot was charged in Adams County, Colorado, after he was spotted swinging an ax at a parking arm at the Denver International Airport. 

In Leadville, Colorado, the highest-elevation city (10,158 feet) in the United States, thousands of endurance athletes gather annually to test their mettle in the legendary “Race Across the Sky.” The race series’ marquis event in August, the Leadville Trail 100 ultramarathon, has them trail-running over some of the most extreme mountain passes in the Rockies. The route tops out at a lung-busting 12,620 feet on the aptly named Hope Pass. Half of the runners don’t finish, but they keep coming back—the Leadville Trail 100 turns 40 in 2023, and it sells out every year.

Denver is Colorado’s biggest city and home to a major international airport. As such, it’s a popular jumping-off point for quick getaways and longer trips into the Rocky Mountains and beyond.

Denver is a budget-friendly destination when compared to its Rocky Mountain neighbors like Aspen and Vail (and especially so when compared to much bigger metro areas like New York and Los Angeles).

Answering the decades-long call of Native American tribes and environmentalists alike, President Joe Biden earlier this week created a new national monument buffering parts of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Meaning “where tribes roam” to the Havasupai people and “our ancestral footprints” in the Hopi language, Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni covers 917,618 acres across three distinct sites north and south of the natural wonder. Home to wildlife like bison, elk, mule deer, desert bighorn sheep, and rare cactus species, the protected area encompasses plateaus, canyons, Colorado River tributaries, and countless culturally and spiritually significant sites for the Indigenous peoples of the Southwest.

You pass so close to towering red rock canyons in southern Utah that you expect to hear scraping or see sparks as you glide by. They loom so dramatically over you that you stare without blinking. And if you’re on board the train Rocky Mountaineer, you have glass domed and sided coaches to take it all in, all of the majestic landscape on the Rockies to Red Rocks journey between Moab, Utah and Denver.

A United Airlines passenger said he was thrilled about being served a first-class manicotti meal in an economy-plus seat — until he says it almost landed him on a no-fly list.

I felt an instant pang of regret on my most recent Target shopping spree. 

Mary MacCarthy and her 10-year-old daughter, Moira, had just deplaned at Denver International Airport when two Denver police officers met them at the gate, calling them by name and notifying them that they had been reported for suspicious behavior.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park has closed a park road due to bear activity during a time when the animals are foraging for food.

Want to spend the night in Colorado’s great outdoors, gaze at the stars studding the dark skies and toast marshmallows around a roaring campfire, but not completely sold on the whole process of setting up a tent and digging a hole in the ground when, err, nature calls?

Watching weary day hikes start the long uphill hike from Phantom Ranch, a ranger station at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Jeff Schwartz has learned to look for telltale warning signs.