TRINIDAD • The dignitaries posed for pictures while Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order Thursday creating Colorado’s next state park. Meanwhile, the man who knew the land better than anyone ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After four years of complicated negotiations and community input, the Outdoor Pikes Peak Initiative announced a decade-long plan on Tuesday that will put ...

Colorado motorists are buying one of the state’s 150th anniversary license plates at an unprecedented rate, the Division of Motor Vehicles announced Tuesday. The “Pikes Peak or Bust” plate, based on ...

FISHERS PEAK STATE PARK — Hikers and mountain bikers now have a wider selection of trails taking them deeper into the new Fishers Peak State Park in Southern Colorado. It is part of an expedited plan ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- Gov. Jared Polis made the 14,115-foot trip to the top of Pikes Peak for the grand opening of the new visitor center. The center has been open for a few weeks but the ...

Colorado’s Universal Preschool program received over 12,000 applications for the 2026/2027 year, setting new records for ...

Sunday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis opened the new, much anticipated eight-mile trail to the 9,633-foot summit of Fishers Peak State Park, inviting all who have long desired to hike up the flat-topped ...

Austen Erblat is a digital producer and assignment editor at CBS News Colorado and is Covering Colorado First. Originally from South Florida, he's been working as a journalist in Denver since 2022.

As most Coloradans know, the lyrics to “America the Beautiful” were inspired by a trek to the summit of Pikes Peak via prairie wagon in 1893. But when Katharine Lee Bates penned a poem called “Pikes ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A climber on Little Bear Peak was rescued via Colorado National Guard helicopter after they were hit on the head by a “microwave-sized rock” and fell about 30 feet, according to ...

Lone Eagle Peak is a towering mountain just under 12,000 feet in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, with a certain grandeur that makes this remote natural wonder well worth the trip. The hike (in and out) ...