Manitou Springs will implement a progressive parking-rate pilot program this summer as part of efforts to increase parking availability and ease traffic congestion throughout the city.
A group of hikers, Manitou Springs residents and Colorado Springs community members are banding together to clean up the forest by removing garbage and fire hazards from homeless encampments along the base of the mountains.
The group, Pikes Peak Clean Up Crew, formed on Facebook shortly after the Incline fire ignited in a homeless encampment between Barr Trail and The Manitou Incline in early October and burned several acres.
Trevor Becker, the creator of the Facebook group, lives near the Incline and was at home when he saw plumes of smoke billowing off the mountain.
“It was pretty scary,” Becker said. “And I have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old and it really hit home. So that was really the motivation to go in there and remove those fire hazards.”