Colorado Springs area waterfalls
May 19, 2010
Here’s an article celebrating four Colorado Springs area waterfalls, from R. Scott Rappold writing for The Colorado Springs Gazette. From the article:
“Small, straight, new, treeless,” [writer Helen Hunt Jackson] said of the young city in 1878, after coming here in search of a healthier climate than 19th-century big-city life offered.
“One might die of such a place alone,” she remarked bitterly. “Death by disease would be more natural.”
But she came to love Colorado Springs, in large part because of her frequent visits to rugged Cheyenne Cañon, beyond the jagged pinnacles of rock, to where glistening waterfalls rush down like gifts from the mountains. The falls today bear her name, and have been a popular spot since the canyon became a city park 125 years ago.
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