What’s in Season Now: Pueblo Chiles
Colorado’s favorite peppers are ripe for the picking—and they’re hotter than usual this year.
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One Fish’s First-Fin Account of Being Dumped Out of an Airplane
Each year, Colorado Parks and Wildlife pilots drop loads of cutthroat trouts into alpine lakes. We look at the process from one survivor’s perspective.
4 Prepared Meal Companies to Order From Now
Whether you’re craving tamales or lasagna, here’s how to get it delivered to your doorstep.
Seven Colorado Inmates Seek Understanding Through Music
A debut album from inmates at a Cañon City correctional facility balances justice and redemption.
4 Reasons to Visit This Weekend’s Colorado Fall Home Show
The three-day show at the Colorado Convention Center features more than 200 exhibitors ready to help you design your dream home or refresh the one you’ve got.
Bluebird Market Brings the First Food Hall to Silverthorne
The mountain town jumps on the trend, bringing 12 indie-owned food stalls together under one roof.
A Video Preview of Meow Wolf Denver
5280 got a sneak peek of the immersive art installation, Convergence Station, ahead of its launch this month. It’s time to get weird.
The Colorado Origins of the Worldwide 9/11 Stair Climb
Every year, from Red Rocks to Japan, swaths of people climb stairs on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks to honor first responders. It’s a tradition that began in the Centennial State.
Flash Foxy Launches Climbing Courses for Women and Genderqueer Coloradans
As climbing grows nationwide, the group aims to make the sport more inclusive—including here in Colorado.
How to Balance Exercise as Denver’s Air Quality Worsens
Wildfire rates are increasing. So understanding Colorado’s air quality index (and the little-known, long-term effects of ultrafine particulates) is becoming a rapid necessity.
Meet the Denver Chef Leading With Love and Lumpia
Chef Blaine Baggao’s Filipino–New Mexican food truck, Adobo, has found a fanbase in the Mile High City by reflecting the cultural complexity of the West.
Pacific Peak (Northeast Slopes)
One of the most gorgeous hikes in the state, the Spruce Creek Trail also delivers you to one of the most forbidding-looking thirteeners in Colorado.
Argentine Peak
This 13,738-foot stunner isn’t too challenging, or too far away, or too crowded. Argentine Peak is just right.
Comanche Peak (via the Venable-Comanche Loop)
This loop trail near Westcliffe has lots of vertical gain, 1,000-foot dropoffs, and, oh yeah, a thirteener begging to be bagged.
Redcliff Peak
You’ll pad through lush forests and traverse numerous streambeds before summiting this 13,642-foot beauty near Ridgway.
James Peak
One of Colorado’s most popular thirteeners, James Peak provides the opportunity to trek across a glacier.
South Arapaho Peak
Soak up views of Rocky Mountain National Park, Lake Granby, and the Indian Peaks from the top of South Arapaho Peak.
Hayden Mountain
If you’ve never traveled along southwestern Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway to Red Mountain Pass, you should—and hike up Hayden Mountain while you’re there.
Mt. Ridgway and Whitehouse Mountain
This trek in the rugged San Juan Mountains gets hikers two summits for the price of one.
10 Essentials for Your Daypack
These items should always be within reach, whether you expect to be on the trail for two hours or two days.
