From off-roading mobility vehicles to inclusive museums and sensory kits, there's always more to explore in Olympic City USA.

How can you help the person in your life with addiction in a healthy manner? Face It TOGETHER has the answers.

Take a deep dive into Aubergine with dramaturg, Kee-Yoon Nahm. On stage from Feb. 2 through Feb. 19.

Are you struggling with substance abuse? Find out when it's time to get help for alcohol and other drugs with insight from Face it TOGETHER.

As the No. 1 selling home community in the Pikes Peak region, Banning Lewis Ranch has a few ideas.

With a packed schedule of events and celebrations, summer is the perfect time for a daytrip or getaway to Cripple Creek and Victor.

From historic, annual happenings to brand-new experiences, there is always someone to cheer on in Olympic City USA.

Try these itineraries to make an impression on someone special. Valentine’s Day is in the air, but these are good any time of year.

The collaborative public art installation kicks off Arts Month with a celebration of the arts and outdoors.

The popular block party is back, with its good-time celebration of live music, food trucks and family fun.

Happy 150th birthday Colorado Springs! Celebrate the city’s milestone and the Toyko Olympics at the ultimate birthday bash.

A 150th anniversary can be awkward. It’s certainly awkward to say: sesquicentennial. For the French, maybe a word with as many s’s and q’s flows off the tongue with...

Led by Oakwood Homes, Colorado Springs’ leading master-planned community continues to create beautifully functional new homes...

Bring live music and dance to your backyard. The popular Curbside Culture program is back for 2021 with even more artists and performers.

Promos, giveaways and lots of fireworks—these are the best times to catch a Switchbacks or Vibes game.

Here's how to score BOGO beer, wine, coffee, cocktails and more.

Here’s an overview of shows returning to summer lawns, concert halls, music venues and even the new downtown stadium.

Here’s how to make Mom feel special this year, from brunch or spa day to archery, family photo shoots and more.

Out is in as the FAC’s City as a Venue builds an outdoor stage and takes remote performances to neighborhoods throughout Colorado Springs.

Experience the restored Cog Railway and newly constructed Summit Visitor Center this summer.

Life is happening at Banning Lewis Ranch with a full schedule of summer concerts, farmers markets, and family fun, including one of the largest 4th of July fireworks shows in Colorado Springs.

As the downtown stadium nears its official grand opening, Weidner Field unveils “The Epicenter,”...

The Retreat, an OakwoodLife community, is Colorado Springs’ first active adult community, and it’s built to reignite an active, engaged lifestyle.

How an ongoing series of murals are filling a public art void and reinvigorating a forgotten neighborhood.

If you’re looking for a job, Colorado Springs is still an excellent market...

Colorado Springs’ fastest growing, best-selling neighborhood receives national recognition as a place for life and community to thrive.

Forest animals create the most pragmatic trails to food, water, shelter. Man follows. Ancient travelers, followed by the Ute Indians, then homesteaders and prospectors, used this valley to pass...

Colorado Springs’ biggest music fest is back, signaling the start of summer and a return to some normalcy, community, good times and dancing like you just don’t care.

What’s a local restaurant to do to survive this pandemic winter? Get creative and make a unique hot spot, something cool that will beat the cold and one that...

The Colorado Springs Sesquicentennial is on, celebrating its past, present, future and 150th birthday. Here’s how to party like it’s 1871, January through July.

So I raced Jesse Owens the other day. Yes, that Jesse Owens. Winner of four gold medals at the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games. Hero of freedom and racial equality...

The last few years have seen a renaissance in the local dining scene as both the quantity and quality of restaurants has boomed. And then came COVID. It’s no...

Patricia Cameron, founder of the Springs nonprofit Blackpackers, thru-hikes the Colorado Trail to open doors for more people of color in the outdoors.

Where to Find It: North Cheyenne Cañon Park Distance: approximately 6.5 miles roundtrip Elevation Gain: approximately 1,350 feet Difficulty: Intermediate / Difficult Know Before You Go: The ascent starts flat and busy, and...

Colorado Springs singer-songwriter Nina de Freitas had just recovered from COVID-19 last April when she remembered the deadline for NPR’s Tiny Desk contest. Problem was, she was at her...

What’s a theater company to do when it can’t fill its live stage venue due to COVID? If you’re the Fine Arts Center Theatre Company, you go a little...

Where will our child get the best education? How are our schools measuring up? While no school will be the perfect fit for every individual student, it can be...

At this time in a normal year, Restaurant Week would be highlighting local dining with discounted prix fixe menus and specials, but this is 2020. Instead of the usual...

Where to Find It: Black Forest Distance: 9 miles Elevation Gain: approximately 500 feet Difficulty: Easy to intermediate  Know Before You Go: The Pineries 9-mile loop has no bailout points. Once you are...

If you race it, they will come—and help fund improvements to our world-class trails. That’s the idea behind the Pikes Peak APEX, the biggest mountain biking race Colorado Springs...

The Labor Day Lift Off is one of Colorado Springs best and most beautiful annual traditions. And while things will look different this year to maintain social distancing and...

Where to Find It: Chipita Park, Ute Pass west of Colorado Springs Distance: About 3.5 miles one way from the trailhead to Crystal Creek Reservoir Difficulty: Difficult Peak Elevation: 9,505 feet Know Before...

If you’re missing live music and dance, why not bring the artists to you? Curbside Culture is taking the show on the road—literally—to connect local performing artists and audiences...

Colorful murals and detailed sculptures have been cropping up all over downtown since May. As part of the Downtown Partnership's annual Art on the Streets exhibit, art from around...

Planning—and hoping—to hit the slopes next year? Season pass deals are running longer, but some deadlines are looming. Here’s the rundown on season pass prices and potential refunds in light of pandemic uncertainties.

The annual passport program is back, making it easy and cheaper to raise a glass of beer, wine, whiskey, moonshine, coffee or cocktails while supporting local businesses.

While cross-country trips can be fun, it’s not always relaxing to hop on a flight or deal with crowds, but a road trip to a smaller city could be...

It took a pandemic, but part of Tejon Street is now a pedestrian-only zone filled with extended patios for on-street dining—at least on Friday nights and Saturdays. Organized by...

Your library card can take you further than you would've imagined. Check out movies, audio books, language learning tools, and more!

Shortly after 46-year-old George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer over Memorial Day weekend, crowds of Black Lives Matter protestors took to the streets. What began in...

It’s never a bad time for pizza, pasta, wine and a new local hot spot — even when you open your new restaurant during a pandemic.

The moody music video for Jarrod Gipson’s Clockwise is bathed in stark, contrasting colors, alternating between a saturation of red and blue imagery that unfolds the intercut scenes of...

Due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our economy and business, the publication of future print issues of Springs magazine has been put on hold.  We are deeply...

Kate Perdoni has always had a big imagination. As a young child, the future journalist scrawled answers to imaginary inquiries asked in invisible interviews. Today Perdoni is here in...

The photos are emotive portraits and evocative streetscapes that offer human perspective on the uncertainty and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. You might have seen them on social media...

In 1993 there was Zima. In 2016, White Claw. Now we’ve reached craft hard seltzer? “Hard seltzer is a flagship beverage at the Black Forest Brewing Company,” says Donovan...

Exploring sustainability in our city, where there are positives to celebrate and plenty of areas for improvement.

While the clear winning benefit of statewide stay-at-home orders is flattening the curve of COVID-19, the best silver lining has to be the allowance for take-out cocktails. From high-end...

The paleontological discovery at Corral Bluffs Open Space in eastern El Paso County made national news last fall when Colorado scientists published the discovery of a trove of fossils...

We Coloradans love our outdoors. And with COVID-19 throwing life as we know it for a loop, going outside has been the key to maintaining health, sanity and a...

Drive to the Westside of Colorado Springs, along 21st Street or Lower Gold Camp Road, and into the neighborhood of Gold Hill Mesa. Ease past the community center with...

Tired of cooking at home? Or just craving a different dish in the midst of sheltering in place? #CarryOutToCarryOn is the mantra restaurants in Colorado Springs are using as...

“The internet has suddenly become the new stage,” says Andy Vick, executive director of the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.  That’s what happens when we’re all staying at...

At the beginning of March, before the coronavirus came to our city, I wrote an article for Springs about the convenience of getting groceries delivered to your doorstep. The...

Last January I took a little walk in the woods with my friend Tonya. Casually, she mentioned an idea she found online called the 52-Hike Challenge: one hike per...

We’ve all felt the effects as COVID-19 has rocked the country—and world—and governments at every level have placed restrictions on businesses and the public. Small, locally-owned businesses have taken...

In the Shadow of Pikes Peak: An Illustrated History of Colorado Springs by Mark L. Gardner, 1999 This all-ages read tells the tale of peoples who inhabited this region centuries before...

I’m not sure how it happened. I said: “Let’s put our house on the market.” Then it sold. I don’t think the sign was ever fully planted on the...

The politics of Divide, west of Colorado Springs, have gone to the dogs, literally. Teller County Regional Animal Shelter (TCRAS) in Divide has held a mayoral race every two...

Who says delicious has to be expensive? These 31 dishes from all over the Springs prove otherwise. Most are under $10. Some are during happy hour; some are all...

In a time when diversity was planting its roots in Colorado Springs, African American men and women were attending and graduating from Colorado College. But it was in 1935...

Nicholas Payton is a force to be reckoned with. A multi-instrumentalist, visionary composer, iconoclast, Payton resides firmly at the forefront of contemporary music, pushing ensembles and audiences in new,...

You don’t have to live in here long to know that Colorado weather can be fickle. Sure, we get all that sunshine, but it’s also not unusual to get...

This year marks a big birthday for Beethoven and a heroic lineup for the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. To celebrate the master composer’s 250th, international superstar violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman...

It’s easy to learn about beer in a community like Colorado Springs. Just visit any of the local breweries here, ask some questions, try some sampling flights and you’re...

After more than a decade of work, CC becomes the first educational institution in the Rocky Mountain West to achieve the noteworthy goal of carbon neutrality.

You won’t find fancy decor at all of these relatively new eateries—but you will find authentic and delicious ethnic cuisine worth seeking out. Taste of Brasil Eating at this Garden of...

It began with a simple question from my son. “Dude,” he said. “Do we have a turntable?” Normally, my son calls me dad, but the fact that he was addressing...

Maybe you’ve lived here for years. Maybe you’re a newcomer to Colorado Springs. Maybe you go every year to (fill in the blank for your favorite). Maybe you’ve just...

If you ski or snowboard, then it’s most likely that James Niehues has been your guide. Over the course of nearly three decades, Niehues has illustrated more than 200...

You’ll find the likes of the Hooligans, Vicious Pickles, Donut Bumpers and other uniquely named teams on local ice rinks. Adult rec league hockey is alive and well in...

When you’re putting together your holiday gift lists, don’t forget the four-legged members of your household. Just remember that grabbing a random bag of chewies from a register line...

Sometimes pampering your pets means treating yourself too. One of the newest dog-friendly items on the market arrives courtesy of local company MuttRuk. After a successful Kickstarter campaign in...

With more than 12,000 students, funded partnership with the National Cybersecurity Center, and the state-of-the-art William J. Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center opening next year, Chancellor Venkat Reddy...

Who doesn’t like variety at least once in a while? I admit I’m not the most discerning beer drinker. But as a recent craft beer convert, I don’t have...

Take a journey on the Colorado Spirits Trail, follow the map of distillers around Colorado, and you'll discover some hidden treasures among Colorado craft spirits. Here are some of the best gems along...

It’s opening night under the striped tent of MeadowGrass festival last Memorial Day weekend, and as headliners Woodshed Red take the stage, fans in the front are already dancing...

Beer and yoga make a great pairing. Here’s the inside scoop on where to find your Yoga & Brews class and what to expect.

In my 20s I was a Budweiser gal. What can I say? It was the beer of choice for my Monsignor Murphy’s dart team, and I’m a team player....

The old adage that “necessity is the mother of invention” seems to be true in real estate too. At least it has been particularly salient for Colorado Springs’ market...

"Grab the top of that ledge, latch your chili bean and let go!” says Alex Hesler, outdoor attraction manager at Cave of the Winds. He’s encouraging me to hang by...

If you ask the men and women in these pages what makes a hero, they point to their teams and teammates and those faithfully serving others. They seem genuinely...

You hear the howls, the barks, the whimpers of dogs in their chainlink kennels when you walk into an animal shelter. Then you lock eyes with a dog and...

We’re standing at autumn’s door, but before it opens to peak views of golden aspens, there are plenty of prime days ahead for backyard grilling and patio chilling. Here...

The stars of the show at the National Museum of World War II Aviation are the 35 aircraft, 24 of which can still fly. Visitors can self-guide their way...

Whether you’re a runner, cyclist, hiker or just plain active Coloradan, summer is prime time for that big race, ride or trek. But there’s more than just putting in...

"You need art. Art needs you.” This potent motto has fueled the Modbo gallery since it opened in a small storage outbuilding in an alley off Bijou and Tejon streets...

You could say that Tom Hirt began his career as a dead guy. Cast as Mark Harmon’s stand-in in the 1978 Western Comes a Horseman, Hirt took the role...

Where to Find It: Northwest Colorado Springs, Blodgett Peak Open Space Distance: 5.2 miles out-and-back to summit, other trails available Difficulty: Advanced Peak Elevation: 9,423 feet Know Before You Go: Lower trails in...

Have you ever been to the Western Jubilee, National Museum of World War II Aviation or Paint Mines Interpretive Park? There’s no shortage of things to do in Colorado...