MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — The 69th Annual Pikes Peak Ascent took place Saturday, as hundreds of runners set out from the streets of Manitou Springs up the nearly 8,000-foot climb to the summit.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Completing a trail encircling Pikes Peak and expanding camping opportunities in the shadow of the landmark locals call “America’s Mountain” are expected to ...

Every summer, thousands of people make the curvy, sometimes nerve-wracking journey to the summit of one of Colorado’s most iconic “fourteeners”: Pikes Peak. Unlike most other fourteeners, there’s more ...

In my column in the Jan. 23 edition of The Independent, I wrote about the many features in the EXPLORE Act, a single piece of recently passed federal legislation that simplifies, standardizes and ...

Colorado Springs is opening the road to the top of Pikes Peak earlier than usual for their Special Sunrise events on select mornings throughout the summer and the early fall. Typically, gates open at ...

As most Coloradans know, the lyrics to “America the Beautiful” were inspired by a trek to the summit of Pikes Peak via prairie wagon in 1893. But when Katharine Lee Bates penned a poem called “Pikes ...

Pikes Peak above 11,000 feet is forecasted to accumulate between 5 and 8 inches of snow beginning Thursday morning, according to a spokesperson with the National Weather Service in Pueblo. Several ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Public land around the Pikes Peak region’s second most famous mountain is one step closer to ...

(PIKES PEAK, Colo.) — On Tuesday, May 6, many in Southern Colorado woke up to slushy, wet commutes as rain, snow, and chilly air moved across the region. Courtesy: Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain ...

The end of summer has brought contrasting weather across the country, with the Pacific Northwest under extreme heat warnings amid above-average temperatures and much of the rest of the central and ...