To me it is very sad when people are eager to forfeit the majesty and beauty of these mountains in lieu of a solar farm as a monstrous in-your-face black bulletin board sign, for a city who opposes ...

Katharine Lee Bates, a Wellesley College professor, traveled to Colorado Springs in 1893 to teach summer school. While there, she visited Pikes Peak, the highest summit of the southern Front Range of ...

Ready for some summer fun in America’s national parks? So is everyone else. With vacation season in full swing, throngs of your fellow tourists will be winging their way toward fruited plain, purple ...

Long before my honeymoon to the mountains, I had never set foot outside of Iowa and Missouri. My father was a Vietnam vet, and once he got back stateside, he did not want to get too far away from home ...

Katharine Lee Bates used the term “purple mountains’ majesty” when she wrote the lyrics to the popular, patriotic song, “America the Beautiful,” but I’ve dropped the color for my version because most ...