For many visitors to scenic Williams Canyon, north of Manitou Springs, Colorado, the aging bronze plaque was a curiosity. Erected on the Ordovician-age Manitou limestone wall near the locked Williams Canyon gate, the plaque commemorated Henry Truman Williams, a New York City author and editor, who died in 1915. Sometime between June 22 and June [...]

This April, one of the first public attractions of the Pikes Peak region is celebrating its 135th anniversary. Opened to visitors to the new resort community of Manitou in early April 1875, Mammoth Cave offered an opportunity to see a pristine Colorado cave, previously unknown to even the Native Americans who frequented the area’s bubbling [...]

At the city-owned Garden of the Gods park on the outskirts of Colorado Springs, a formerly popular cave awaits reopening. Calling it a cave is a bit of a stretch – Spaulding’s Cave is more of a closed fissure in the red Fountain sandstone that outcrops spectacularly in the Garden and brings thousands of visitors [...]