Southern Rockies Nature Blog

Cloud Camp lodge, above the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs Known its golf courses (plural), tennis club, riding stable, and other ameniti...

Oil pan cracked, the bus sits on Coffee Pot Road. (Photo: Garfield County Sheriff) People in Colorado are having a good laugh over the haple...

1925 Ford Model T touring car (Wikipedia). A century ago, our national forests had a problem. Behind the wheels of their Ford Model T's ...

  • Now it will be CabelasBassProShopsSportsmansWarehouse.  There is an interesting angle as to what happens to the Remington firearms brand...

Jørgen Brønlund was a Greenland-born Inuit and the last to die. If you read this blog, you probably have read Jack London's famous sho...

Front page photo from the Wet Mountain Tribune , July 16, 2020. I was talking with a game warden from one of the mountain counties t...

Too many things to blog about. So try some blog stew with these ingredients!  • Will you find a campsite? Beginning in 2020 all Colorado...

There was a herd of Black Angus cattle near our campground last weekend at State Forest State Park — I will be writing more about the pa...

A couple of weeks ago, my friend R. and I were talking about trailers and RVs and such (maybe because he had recently gotten a new-used...

Part of Carpios Ridge Campground from an overlook. As I turned into the Carpios Ridge Campground at Trinidad Lake State Park , pulling t...

Encountered in the Wet Mountains I feel like I have been somewhere, that is for sure. I was on-deadline the second half of August, and...

Last weekend at Sylvan Lake State Park , the solar lantern just was not bright enough for both M's and my reading, so I fired up the s...

• Illegal campsites are usually trashy. Yes, that's a stereotype, but stereotypes have to come from somewher e. And when you have tras...

Nine years after the big fire. Monday we hiked one of our favorite old trails , severely burned over in 2005. That fire was followed by ...

Missouri-Pacific Railroad tourism brochure, 1927 Part 1: Looking for Colorado 76 Part 2: Davenport, the "Retro" Campground ...

It's not just an incinerator, it is a "Kernerator," by the Kern Incinerator Co. of Milwaukee. Part 1: Looking for Colora...

Part 1, "Looking for Colorado 76" Here are the 1947 flood waters one drainage north of Davenport Campground, near Baver Li...

It is 1923, you are suffering the summer heat in Pueblo, Colorado, and you want to go car-camping up in the cooler Wet Mountains. So you loa...

16-man tipi and woodpile (Photo: Jamie Marchbank) The sociologist of religion Peter Berger is known for his 1967 book The Sacred Canopy...