Colorado Fan Club

06/02/2026

🎵Don't go chasing waterfalls...please stick to the rivers and the gulches you're used to!

📍Rainbow Gulch (Woodland Park, Colorado).

06/02/2026

Tuesday Trivia...Colorado Style! 🪙 The largest and most powerful coining press in the world is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Morgan & Orr of Philadelphia built the press in 1873 for the United States Mint (San Francisco). It is currently located at the entrance to the Money Museum in Colorado Springs.

📍Money Museum
818 N. Cascade Ave.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

On a related note, the Denver Mint has a replica of the first coining press. The first coining press was built in 1792.
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06/02/2026

🎡 The North Pole...home to Santa Claus and the highest Ferris Wheel in the world (Cascade, Colorado).

📸 Cascade, Colorado (June 1, 2026).

06/02/2026

🎡 The North Pole...home to Santa Claus and the highest Ferris Wheel in the world (Cascade, Colorado).

📸 Cascade, Colorado (June 1, 2026).

06/02/2026

🪦Colorado Cemetery Series: Camp Amache Cemetery + Medal of Honor Recipient (Granada, Colorado).

Camp Amache (aka Granada Relocation Center) represents one of the worst tragedies to occur on American soil during the 1940s by our own government. For more info about Camp Amache, check out the National Park Service link found in the first picture's description.

121 individuals died while detained at Camp Amache. A cemetery was established, which still exists today. Though, most of those interred were later moved elsewhere....nine marked burials remain, along with a stone memorial commemorating the 31 former prisoners that were killed in action fighting for a government that failed them. Let me tell you more about that:

As a way to escape the clutches of Camp Amache, 950 prisoners volunteered for the U.S. Army. Thirty-one of those volunteers died in Europe fighting with 442nd Regiment. Kiyoshi Muranaga would earn the Medal of Honor for his actions posthumously in 2000. He has a memorial marker at the cemetery.

📍Location:
County Rd 23.5
Granada, CO 81041
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06/01/2026

⏰️ Only 2.5 more hours to vote! MONDAY AT 8PM is the end of voting. If you have a moment...would you mind checking out my photo submissions for the Cripple Creek Donkeys - Two Mile High Club photo contest related to the recent Donkey Release? The three photos with the most "likes" win. Thank you so much!🙂

Direct link to to the post and photos:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CskaTzvcy/

Ok let’s try this again folks! If you already posted a picture, please post again. There was a glitch in matrix! 😂

🚨🫏 DONKEY RELEASE 2026 PHOTO CONTEST IS NOW OPEN 🫏🚨

📸 The Donkey Release 2026 Photo Contest is NOW OPEN!

Think you captured the ultimate donkey release moment? We want to see it!

✨ CONTEST RULES ✨

📅 Contest runs now through June 1st at 8:00 PM
📸 Maximum of 3 photo submissions per contestant
🚫 Contest is not open to TMHC members
👍❤️😂 The photos with the MOST reactions will win!
Any reaction counts toward the total.

🏆 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will be chosen based on total reactions received on their submitted photos. Winners will receive Two Mile High Club - Cripple Creek Donkeys swag!

If you have additional photos from release day that you would like to share with the Two Mile High Club, we would absolutely love to see them. These releases are historic moments in the making, and your photos help preserve the story and tradition of the herd for years to come. ❤️

✨ EXTRA EXCITING NEWS ✨
Colorado Life Magazine is doing a feature story on the Two Mile High Club and the Donkey Release, and they’ve asked us to share the incredible community photos collected from this contest! Please email [email protected]

📬 By submitting photos in the comments or emailing them to us, you’re giving the Two Mile High Club permission to use your images for social media, press, news stories, and promotional materials. We always do our best to give photo credit to the talented photographers who share their work. 📷

Now start posting those unforgettable release moments!
The downtown donkey patrol is already reviewing entries with very strong opinions. 🫏



Photo Credit: Laura Klein

06/01/2026

⏳️ Then AND Now: Historic Ticknor Hall on the Colorado College campus (Colorado Springs, Colorado).

Ticknor Hall was dedicated in 1898 to serve as a women's dormitory for students attending Colorado College in Colorado Springs. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 2000, in recognition of its architectural and educational significance.

📸 Picture 1: Ticknor Hall sometime between 1912-1918. Photo courtesy of the Pikes Peak Library District photo archives.

📸 Photos 2 and 3: Ticknor Hall now (photos by me).

06/01/2026

📸 The current view of Pikes Peak from Rampart Range Road...Woodland Park side.

06/01/2026

🧐 Three years later, and you'd never know a coal power plant once stood here!💡From Coal to Natural Gas: The Story of the Drake Power Plant in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

For decades, the Martin Drake Power Plant stood just south of downtown Colorado Springs. Built in the 1920s, expanded in the 1960s–70s, and running almost nonstop, Drake was one of the last coal-fired power plants in the country located right in the middle of a city.

The Martin Drake Power Plant provided the electricity that lit our homes, powered our businesses, and kept Colorado Springs growing...until it didn't.

From the official Colorado Springs Utilities website:

*"All generation inside the Martin Drake Power Plant permanently shut down on Sept. 1, 2022. This marked the end of nearly a century of electric generation in downtown Colorado Springs.

*Demolition efforts began in the summer of 2023. From that time through July 2024, the project consisted of more than 83,000 hours of labor and the removal of approximately 8,700 gross tons of metal, filling 770 truckloads.

*The demolition project cost about $20 million – a price tag that would have grown without the offsets achieved by selling scrap material.

*Demolition activities at the site of the former Martin Drake Power Plant were completed in 2024, following nearly a century of electric generation in downtown Colorado Springs.

*The decision to shutdown Drake was made with several factors in mind, to include state-required emissions reductions and the high maintenance costs of running an aging coal-fired plant (approximately $200 million annually)."

I was there to capture it all...the plant standing tall in its final days, the dramatic demolition, and the cleanup that followed. Today, the site has been transformed. In its place, natural gas towers now provide power, marking a big shift in how Colorado Springs Utilities is planning its energy future.

📸 Pictures 2+ from June 1, 2026.
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06/01/2026

🪖Colorado History Series: The Rough Riders.
Before becoming President, Theodore Roosevelt organized the Rough Riders in 1898, to fight in the Spanish-American War. The Rough Riders would become the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. They were one of three such regiments raised and the only one to see action (and heavy losses). The Rough Riders were involved in many battles, including the capture of Kettle Hill and the overtaking of San Juan Ridge. Based on the headstone in this Colorado cemetery, Lt. James Jackson was a Rough Rider.

I put a link in each picture's description for more information about the Rough Riders.

📍Cedar Hill Memorial Cemetery
313 Eagle Street
Gypsum, Colorado
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