Paradise awaits outdoor enthusiasts at Manitou Springs mountain community in Colorado Springs. The magical town lies between the Gods of the Garden and Pikes Peak. This outdoor recreation paradise allows extreme mountain bikers to hit the trails at Red Rock Canyon Open Space, provides water enthusiasts with the Arkansas River for rafting, and fishermen can drop a line at the North Slope Recreation Area.
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.
Explore a rare historical treasure at the Manitou Cliff Dwellings, located in the foothills of Pikes Peak, just minutes outside of Colorado Springs. Go inside the fascinating remnants of the red stone cliff dwellings built seven hundred years ago by the Anasazi Indians, and discover their cultural rituals and daily routines.