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Mobility assistance vehicles spread reach across Colorado Springs area trails

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April 17, 2024

Mobility assistance vehicles spread reach across Colorado Springs area trails

More Terrain Hoppers are coming to Colorado Springs-area trails.

Cheyenne Mountain State Park recently announced acquiring two of the electric vehicles appearing like small ATVs and “designed to carry mobility challenged people at walking speed across a variety of surfaces,” according to a news release.

Starting Memorial Day weekend, the park will make the Terrain Hoppers available for online reservation — similar to El Paso County’s Trailability Program.

“We are excited to get our guests out on trails that they’ve been unable to hike due to mobility limitations,” Cheyenne Mountain State Park Manager Jason Hagan said in the release.

The intent has been the same for El Paso County, which this month opened online reservations for summer and early fall tours on trails around Bear Creek and Fountain Creek nature centers. This will mark the second full summer of the Trailability Program. The tours have been alongside trained volunteers, as will be the case at Cheyenne Mountain State Park.

A similar program has run at Staunton State Park since 2017. Rather than Terrain Hoppers, the park near Conifer has offered Trackchairs, which navigate terrain with tank-like wheels.

Last fall, Colorado Springs’ city parks department announced acquiring two Trackchairs. In February, the department posted a seasonal position, “Trackchair program administrator,” who “will be part of the process to finalize and launch the program with an anticipated start date in late spring,” city spokesperson Cassie Melvin told The Gazette.

Melvin added: “In conjunction with parks staff, (the administrator) will also be responsible for assessing trail accessibility and working to upgrade trails to accommodate the Trackchairs.”

Such work has been underway in the city’s Bear Creek Canyon Park, said to entail about a mile of widened trail construction and realignment. The work was identified collaboratively with El Paso County, which manages neighboring Bear Creek Regional Park and has expressed interest in guiding Terrain Hoppers up to Gold Camp Road.

City officials have also floated Red Rock Canyon Open Space as another possible place for guided Trackchairs.

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Pedestrian dies after walking into highway traffic in Northern Colorado, police say

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January 6, 2026

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Pedestrian dies after walking into highway traffic in Northern Colorado, police say

January 6, 2026 / 4:15 PM MST
/ CBS Colorado

Police in Northern Colorado are investigating after a crash involving multiple vehicles claimed the life of a pedestrian.

The Greeley Police Department received reports of a crash at the 5500 block of Highway 34 around 5:50 p.m. on Monday. When officers arrived, they discovered that two vehicles were involved in a crash with a 19-year-old woman who attempted to walk across the highway.

Police said there was no crosswalk in the area, and she was struck by the driver’s side of a Chevrolet Blazer. The impact knocked the woman into the inside lane, where she was struck by a Chevrolet Traverse. A witness told officers they saw the woman crossing the roadway ‘as traffic arrived at her location.’

First responders attempted life-saving measures on the woman at the scene before she was taken to North Colorado Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. GPD said the Weld County Coroner’s Office will release her identity at a later time.

Neither driver involved was injured in the crash. Police said they don’t expect charges to be filed against those drivers at the moment, but the case remains under investigation. The police department asked anyone with information on the crash to contact Officer Ed Kubala at Edward.Kubala@greeleypd.com.

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Sunday tickets are free at this historic Colorado ski area

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January 6, 2026

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Sunday tickets are free at this historic Colorado ski area

Colorado’s best ski deal? Maybe one that costs nothing at all. At Steamboat Springs’ Howelsen Hill, “Sunday Funday is taken to an entirely new level,” reads the city webpage for Ski Free Sundays. Yes, on Sundays throughout the season, visitors need only to walk into the ticket office to grab a pass at no charge. […]

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Are Colorado’s per capita carbon emissions among the highest in the world?

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January 5, 2026

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Are Colorado’s per capita carbon emissions among the highest in the world?

Yes.

While Colorado ranks near the middle of U.S. states for carbon emissions per capita, it still produces enough CO2 per person to rival countries on the World Bank’s list of top emitters internationally.

In 2023, Colorado produced 13.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per capita. If it had been ranked by the World Bank during the same year, Colorado would have placed 14th among the more than 200 countries on the list, just behind Canada, at 14.1, and just ahead of the U.S. as a whole, at 13.7.

Among U.S. states, Colorado ranked 26th in carbon emissions per capita. Wyoming had the highest per capita emissions in the country, at 92.9 metric tons, while Maryland had the lowest, at 7.8.

Most of Colorado’s emissions come from energy production and consumption, primarily natural gas and oil production and electric power production and consumption.

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Colorado State Energy Profile, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link

2023 Colorado Statewide Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, pg. 128, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, November 2024. Source link

Senate Bill 24-230 Oil and Gas Production Fees, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December, 2025. Source link

Senate Bill 23-016 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Measures, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December 2025. Source link

Carbon dioxide emissions, World Bank Group, 2024, accessed in December 2025. Source link

Energy-related CO2 emission data tables, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link

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