Events

Eclipse fever!

No need to book an overpriced motel for the August 21 solar eclipse, because getting to the “path of totality” is easy to do as a day trip when you live in northern Colorado! Easiest […]

Events

Getting ready for the Mountain Festival

In just a few weeks—on September 3, 2017, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.—this hayfield will be bustling with the family-friendly Mountain Festival, a popular annual fundraiser of the Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. Great food, music, plant […]

Outdoors

August 21 Solar Eclipse

Surely you’ve heard about it by now, even if you’re not an astronomer. Northern Colorado is not quite in the path of the full eclipse. Fort Collins will see a magnitude of .96 at 11:46am […]

Outdoors

Bison at Soapstone: 33 and thriving

By Gary Raham When I set up the spotting scope this year at the south parking lot in preparation for another talk about the wild bison herd at Soapstone Prairie Natural Area in northeastern Larimer […]