The popular likes of Pikes Peak, Mount Bierstadt and Mount Blue Sky are among fourteeners due for trail work this summer.

Colorado's capital city offers plenty of lodging ... to scale Pikes Peak via the 23.2-mile Barr Trail. Summiting via the Crags Campground route is shorter, at around 13 miles, but still difficult.

Of the many campgrounds throughout these forests and grasslands, Turquoise Lake Recreation Area near Leadville, Crags Campground near Colorado Springs and Angel of Shavano Campground near Salida ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife said reservations ... of elevation gain -- or the northwest slopes route starting at the Crags trailhead, a 14-mile round trip with 4,300 feet of elevation gain.

an oasis of flat ground in a broad canyon of cliffs and crags. The streets are arranged in a neat, compact grid similar to that in many of Colorado’s late 19th-century boomtowns. Buildings ...