The Garden of the Gods Visitor Center is situated perfectly for framing the park's distinctive rock formations against Pikes Peak. Leann Overby, of Louisiana, peered through a telescope in August ...

Like all mountain ranges, they slowly wore away. Rewind 280 million years from present day, and all that was left of the once-lofty peaks were some low hills and a thick pile of sediment that would ...

In the 1940s, some suggested an amphitheater similar to Denver’s Red Rocks. ... ‘Garden of the Gods,” part of the “Images of America” book series, will be in stores March 26.

The Garden of the Gods is spectacular in its own way, but it is certainly no Eden. ... where that city has built an amphitheater in a natural bowl between the stark rock sentinels.

Red rocks at Garden of the Gods with storm clouds seen on June 8, 2024. (Brooke Williams) Red Rocks Amphitheatre: What to know before going to a concert in 2024 ...

The Garden of the Gods is located about 6 miles northwest of central Colorado Springs; the park is open from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. November 1 to April 30. It stays open to 10 p.m. from May 1 to October 31.

A recent survey asked 3,000 families where they would most like to spend Memorial Day, and two locations in Colorado made the top 100, including Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs.

The head of the Burlington Railroad, Charles Elliot Perkins, purchased 240 acres in the Garden of the Gods in 1879. He added to the property but never built on it.