A pair of iconic Pikes Peak tourism draws are on track to reopen.
The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway, closed since October 2017 for a $100 million overhaul, will have a soft opening May 20.
âThere wonât be much fanfare that day,â says Assistant General Manager Ted Johnson, âother than, maybe amongst our employees, having a little celebration that weâre done with the project and weâre putting paying customers on the train.â He says cog trains will run May 20-23 and resume with a full, seven-days-a-week schedule May 27.
The $62 million Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center, under construction since early 2018, will host a soft opening in June, says Jack Glavan, Pikes Peak â Americaâs Mountain manager for the city of Colorado Springs.
A pair of iconic Pikes Peak tourism draws are on track to reopen.
The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway, closed since October 2017 for a $100 million overhaul, will have a soft opening May 20.
âThere wonât be much fanfare that day,â Assistant General Manager Ted Johnson said, âother than, maybe amongst our employees, having a little celebration that weâre done with the project and weâre putting paying customers on the train.âÂ
Cog trains will run May 20-23 and will resume with a full, seven-days-a-week schedule May 27, Johnson said.
The $62 million Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center, under construction since early 2018, will host a soft opening in June, said Jack Glavan, Pikes Peak â Americaâs Mountain manager for the city of Colorado Springs.
After a snowy March kept crews from working on the new Pikes Peak Summit Complex for all but five out of 20 days, workers are on a tight timeline to open the new attraction by the end of May as planned. Any weather delays will impact that, said Jack Glavan, manager of Pikes Peak.
But construction is in final stages with main rooms getting their finishing touches after construction started in late 2019, he said. It’s really exciting to see it, Glavan said.
The new Summit House, expected to cost between $60 to $65 million, will better accommodate the more than half a million visitors who visit the mountain top each year than the previous one. It will also offer an interactive indoor exhibit gallery and interpretive trails around the summit that will describe the views and share stories about the peak’s history.
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The AdAmAn Club sets off fireworks from the summit of Pikes Peak at midnight New Years Day, January 1, 2017. Gazette photographer Mark Reis shot this in-camera double exposure with a 600mm lens from the back porch of of his home. He photographed the waxing crescent moon setting over Pikes Peak earlier that night and then left the camera in place. He returned to the stationary camera at midnight to shoot the second exposure of fireworks lighting up the east face of the Peak. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette
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