Rev up your engines a the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, aka, Race in the Clouds. This festival features an automobile and motorcycle hill climb to the summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs. Join 35,000 spectators at the annual event, watch high speed races and motorcycle jumpers, eat at the chili cook-off, drink ice cold beer, listen to live music and cheer along with the Denver Bronco Cheerleaders!
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is home to three important cultural institutions: an art museum, a theater company and an art school. Visitors can enjoy seeing permanent and traveling modern art collections, musical and non-musical original plays, and taking community-based art classes.
Meet a political treasure at the McAllister House; the home of Major Henry McAllister, an influential and talented promoter in the early days of the planning of General Palmer's resort city of Colorado Springs. The small carriage house has been renovated over time and is host to the curator, Victorian Teas, and Elizabeth's Treasures Gift Shop.
Shop the homespun flavor of the west at Old Colorado City Historic District in Colorado Springs. The three-block historic district offers tree-lined streets laced with old brick buildings offering 113 one of a kind shops, galleries and restaurants, including, Vintage Revival, Velez Gallery, and Pizzeria Rustica. Spend a day being a historical shopper.