Visitors return to the top of Pikes Peak as new summit house opens gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Adventures with Alan takes a ride on the Pikes Peak Cog Railway
Entertaining guests since 1891, the Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway is a unique, one-of-a-kind experience that takes riders from the foothills of Manitou Springs to the top of Pikes Peak. It s the world s highest and longest cog railway.
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Entertaining guests since 1891, the Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway is a unique, one-of-a-kind experience that takes riders from the foothills of Manitou Springs to the top of Pikes Peak.
Excavators hauled masses of tangled metal as construction crews raced to demolish Pikes Peak s 1964 Summit House and add finishing touches to the mountain s brand new Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center, set to open to the public June 24.
Since June 2018 construction crews labored away at the Summit Complex, a $65 million project designed to update the top of America s mountain. But construction crews continue to stay busy as they slide into the home stretch before the celebratory ribbon cutting June 30. There s a lot going on and I think it s going to be a little while until the peak is as organized as we want it to be, Alan Reed, principal with GWWO Architects, said. The grand opening is the 30th. We re hoping we ll make that deadline.
You Can Ride A Train To The Top Of Pikes Peak Again — Oh, And A New Visitor Center Is There To Greet You cpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Take a look inside the new summit complex atop Pikes Peak as architects close in on completing construction. (Video by Katie Klann)
Update: Pending weather and construction progress, the Pikes Peak Summit Complex is set to open June 24. A ribbon-cutting is planned for June 30.
Knowing his Colorado Springs firm, RTA Architects, would not be able to undertake the project alone, Stuart Coppedge sought partners at GWWO Architects, experts in structures for national parks. In the spring of 2015, Coppedge flew to Baltimore to dine with the team and talk about a new visitor center at 14,115 feet.
It would be a logistical nightmare, the architects agreed.