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After a long but relatively easy drive south from Fort Collins with just a few stops, I arrived here for a hike around Paint Mines Interpretive Park about 27 miles NE of Colorado Springs on a lovely fall day. The area was mostly small and bland compared with, say, Artist Palette at Death Valley, but still fun, free, and well-engineered. Most of the perimeter hike was just on breezy prairie/steppe landscape, not in badlands.

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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Sun Oct 26 13:50:20 MDT 2025)