With Colorado mostly known for its rugged mountainous peaks and being entirely surrounded by land, you may find yourself laughing at the notion of there being any great beaches found anywhere within ...

The best time to visit the park is in spring and early summer, when daytime temperatures are mild and Medano Creek flows with ...

A photograph by Elleni Sclanvenitis, right, of the Annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run on its final leg from the Riverside Cemetery in North Denver in 2017. History Colorado ...

Get more Colorado news by signing up for our Mile High Roundup email newsletter. Updated 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2023: This story has been updated to clarify details of Outfall 20 into Sand Creek.

“The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal that Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever” continues at the History Colorado Center, 1200 N. Broadway. Info: 303-447-8679 or historycolorado.org.

Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado is the perfect lesser visited National Park to visit to kick off the summer of 2023.

The events of Sand Creek continue to influence modern-day events in Colorado. Last month, a group marched from the massacre site to Mount Evans in support of the name change for the mountain to ...

Colorado never forgot the Sand Creek Massacre, though how the story was told took many turns. After not one, but two congressional investigations, as well as an Army probe, Evans was disgraced ...

Eli Imadali for Colorado Public Radio Grass waves on some of the 3,478 new acres of land on the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site after a ceremony commemorating the massacre and ...

Colorado Legislature approves Sand Creek memorial as Oklahoma tribes say they were left out Marianne Goodland [email protected] and Carol McKinley Apr 15, 2025 Updated 14 hrs ago ...

On Nov. 29, 1864, more than 600 Colorado militia troops, led by Col. John Chivington, attacked a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho women, children and elders on the banks of Sand Creek in ...