Organizers of the Colorado Balloon Classic are hosting a contest for its event logo. The winning logo will be used on all promotional material for the 2013 Colorado Balloon Classic, which is the largest air show in the state. The deadline to submit a logo is Nov. 30 and there is no fee to enter. [...]
Continue reading …It’s the season to be scared. The Manitou Springs Heritage Center will host its 18th annual “Ghost Stories of Old Manitou” walking tour Oct. 27. The Heritage Center has launched a new website, the Emma Crawford Festival, with information about the events. Each year, Deborah Harrison of the Heritage Center leads ghost seekers on walking [...]
Continue reading …More than 230,000 people turned out for this year’s Colorado Balloon Classic and organizers are betting there are just as many photos. Record crowds visited the Colorado Balloon Classic, an annual hot-air balloon event held during Labor Day weekend, said Heather Davis Benavidez, event organizer. Now, balloon classic organizers are collecting the best photos of [...]
Continue reading …Amy Long’s voice is calm and hopeful. In the tourism game, she understands the ebb and flow of the market better than anyone. She’s the vice president of marketing and membership at the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau. After the Waldo Canyon fire took a turn toward Colorado Springs on June 26, she was [...]
Continue reading …Mark your calendars, a date has been set for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb — in 2017. Organizers of the annual event have set a date for next year’s hill climb, June 30, but also set dates into 2017. “We felt that it was practical to establish similar dates for the future for many [...]
Continue reading …Thursday marks the first day of the Haunted Mines season. As the lore goes, 100 miners died mysteriously in the depths of a Colorado gold mine after the greedy mine owner suspected they were stealing. Now, those miners haunt that old shaft. Organizers of the sixth annual Haunted Mines will open their spooky version of [...]
Continue reading …The government says the number of long delays in July involving planes stuck on airport tarmacs was more than the previous eight months combined. Twenty eight planes were stuck on the ground at U.S. airports for more than three hours that month, the height of the summer travel season. Eighteen of those planes were operated [...]
Continue reading …For the first time this year, sales tax collections in Colorado Springs are down. But tourism officials are speedily working to get travelers to the city this fall to make up for summer losses during the Waldo Canyon fire. July’s sale taxes were down nearly 4 percent from the same time last year; but the [...]
Continue reading …Mardosz Fine Art Gallery will host a grand opening celebration on Sept. 14. The event marks the beginning of the new gallery that artist Chuck Mardosz and his wife Diana Love created on the southeastern edge of downtown. The two started looking for a spot where Mardosz could open his own gallery and sell his [...]
Continue reading …An antique gun expert will be in Colorado Springs this month to film a show that could end up on a major cable network this fall. Sean Rich, owner of the California-based Tortuga Trading, will be at Sportsman’s Warehouse, 555 N. Chelton Road, Sept. 12-15, to film a new series where he travels the country [...]
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