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The 24-acre (9.7 ha) Bear Creek Dog Park has a 0.75-mile (1.21 km) loop trail that owners and pets can hike on, stabilized pools within 0.25-mile (0.40 km) of creek access for dogs to play in, a holding pen near restrooms and a penned small dog area.
The Wheeler Geologic Natural Area. The Colorado Department of Natural Resources has designated 95 Colorado Natural Areas. [1] Aiken Canyon Natural Area; Antero-Salt Creek Natural Area; Arikaree River Natural Area; Badger Wash Natural Area; Blacks Gulch Natural Area; Blue Mountain Natural Area; Bonny Prairie Natural Area
The U.S. State of Colorado has designated 96 natural areas of the state for special protection, as of 2023. [1] [2] The Colorado Natural Areas Program was established in 1977 to preserve and protect special areas of the state with distinctive flora, fauna, ecological, geological, and paleontologic features.
The Colorado state wildlife areas are managed for hunting, fishing, observation, management, and preservation of wildlife. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife division of the U.S. State of Colorado manages more than 300 state wildlife areas with a total area of more than 860 square miles (2,230 km 2 ) in the state.
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission is a group of eleven members who are appointed by the Governor of Colorado with legislative approval. The Board is charged with representing various geographic regions of the state while providing oversight and setting agency policy in a democratic way to assure the agency is responsive to the citizens ...
The largest park in El Paso County is the 1,680-acre (680 ha) Cheyenne Mountain State Park, which is located in the southern end of Colorado Springs.Its terrain varies from prairie grassland and scrub oak to Douglas fir and ponderosa pine on the peaks at the western side of the park.
One pet owner got the surprise of a lifetime when her dog, Diva, who had been missing for two months, turned up roughly 1,200 miles from her home in Colorado Springs, Colo.. Veterinary technicians ...
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is a zoological park located southwest of downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Cheyenne Mountain in the United States. At an elevation of 6,714 feet (2,046 m) above sea level, it is the highest zoo in the country. The zoo covers 140 acres (57 ha), 40 of which are in use.