Tag Archives: Colorado Springs

Seven Falls and Other Things to Skip

Royal Gorge Bridge

The Royal Gorge Bridge is pretty, but not worth the price of admission

Colorado Springs is such an amazing place that it’s one of the few we’ve come across that we’d consider using as a home base once we trade in the RV. There’s a vibrant small city, close proximity to Denver, stunning parks, and access to some of the best outdoor activities and scenic beauty anywhere in the world.

It is also one of those areas that decided it can charge tourists exorbitant prices for things that are free most everywhere else.

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A Walk Through the Garden of the Gods

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO

15 miles of hiking trails wind through gloriously upended sandstone formations in Colorado Springs’ Garden of the Gods. Free to the public by decree of railroad magnate Charles Eliot Perkins, whose family donated the land to the city in 1909, the property was named as one of the nation’s top ten public places in 2011. With sites like these, it is easy to see why.

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