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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Backpacking permits for the popular Indian Peaks Wilderness, which are required for overnight camping from June 1 to Sept. 15, went on sale Tuesday. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — There’s an additional 19.3 ...

In 1919, a young U.S. Forest Service ranger named Arthur Carhart was sent to high, remote reaches of northwest Colorado to scout land for homes and roads to be built. He came to a clearing, where a ...

Summit and Eagle counties are home to three well-known wilderness areas — Eagles Nest, Holy Cross, and Flat Tops. But Summit County also hosts a smaller and less famous Wilderness — the Ptarmigan Peak ...

Mark James contemplates his great-great-great-great-great uncle, the renowned peak the man famously ascended and the little-known summit that instead took his name elsewhere on Colorado’s Front Range.