Have you ever hopped from a boat for a refreshing dip in a Colorado state park on a scorching-hot summer day?
If so, thereâs a good chance you knowingly or unknowingly broke the park rules. But you were hardly alone.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife currently limits swimming at most of its parks to designated swim beaches. But having a rule is one thing. Having people follow it and being able to enforce it can be quite another.
âThat is probably one of the most violated regulations that we have on a summer day,â Heather Dugan, assistant director for field services at CPW, told the agencyâs commission Thursday.
â Leo Tolstoy
Thirty-five years ago, Brian Mahoney and Larry Jones had a dream.
Decades later we walk and bike the paved paths of the Riverfront Trail. Post-COVID, weâll once again attend concerts at the Las Colonias Amphitheater. My granddaughter will be able to enjoy one of her favorite outings at the River Park at Las Colonias while boaters and paddlers put in at the nearby launch.
New jobs are being created at Las Colonias business park and on the other side of Fifth Street at the Riverfront at Dos Rios. The trail once limited to a small stretch of the Colorado River in Grand Junction now spans the Grand Valley from Palisade on the east out to Fruita and Loma and includes two of the three sections of the Colorado River State Park.