Colorado Springs or Fort Collins CO?

01-03-2007, 10:03 AM

I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs has
easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a lot closer
to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about outlying areas such as
Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?

01-03-2007, 10:45 AM

cufliflox wrote:
> I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs has
> easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a lot closer
> to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about outlying areas such as
> Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?
>
>

If big evangelical churches are your thing, then the Springs all the way!
If you prefer good Belgian style brews, beer festivals, and good live
music, then head for the Fort!

Now in reality, Co Springs probably has better access, but I hear the
cycling in the Fort is pretty good too (no first-hand experience there).
Also, RMNP doesn't allow bikes on the trails, so that is something to
consider as well.

In defense of the Springs, I hear some of those ministers really know
how to have a good time, so they can't be all bad.

Matt

01-03-2007, 11:52 AM

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:03:34 GMT, "cufliflox" <vervix@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs has
>easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a lot closer
>to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about outlying areas such as
>Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?
>

imho,

Colorado Springs is very populated. The congested roads leads towards
people running reds, and hitting each other. Because of this some
people can't aford car insurance, so many uninsured/unlicensed drivers
are on the roads. Also the Olympic Training center is there, the
locals hate bike riding groups taking up two lanes, so it happens to
be a local sport to run down a rider, or two, and get away with it.

Careful, with what you base your relocation on, you have to live with
it later.

Just my option,

xxx

01-03-2007, 12:20 PM

xxx wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:03:34 GMT, "cufliflox" <vervix@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs has
>> easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a lot closer
>> to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about outlying areas such as
>> Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?
>>
>
> imho,
>
> Colorado Springs is very populated. The congested roads leads towards
> people running reds, and hitting each other. Because of this some
> people can't aford car insurance, so many uninsured/unlicensed drivers
> are on the roads. Also the Olympic Training center is there, the
> locals hate bike riding groups taking up two lanes, so it happens to
> be a local sport to run down a rider, or two, and get away with it.

>
> Careful, with what you base your relocation on, you have to live with
> it later.
>
> Just my option,
>
> xxx

It seems to me that there should be one name for the city that is
Colorado Springs-Denver-Boulder-Longmont-Fort Collins-...

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado

Owner/Operator of the Pekingnese Ranch.

01-03-2007, 12:51 PM

Craig Brossman wrote:
> xxx wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:03:34 GMT, "cufliflox" <vervix@microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs
>>> has easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a
>>> lot closer to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about
>>> outlying areas such as Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?
>>
>>
>> imho,
>>
>> Colorado Springs is very populated. The congested roads leads towards
>> people running reds, and hitting each other. Because of this some
>> people can't aford car insurance, so many uninsured/unlicensed drivers
>> are on the roads. Also the Olympic Training center is there, the
>> locals hate bike riding groups taking up two lanes, so it happens to
>> be a local sport to run down a rider, or two, and get away with it.

>>
>> Careful, with what you base your relocation on, you have to live with
>> it later.
>> Just my option,
>>
>> xxx
>
>
> It seems to me that there should be one name for the city that is
> Colorado Springs-Denver-Boulder-Longmont-Fort Collins-...
>

Front Range?

Matt (hi Craig!)

01-03-2007, 02:54 PM

cufliflox wrote:
> I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs has
> easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a lot closer
> to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about outlying areas such as
> Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?
>
>

Why not Denver? Smack dab in the middle and quick access to the trails.
No biking in RMNP anyway and Colorado Springs is home to Cowpunk

.

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01-03-2007, 03:43 PM

cufliflox wrote:
> I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs has
> easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a lot closer
> to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about outlying areas such as
> Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?

For mountain biking, I'd choose The Springs. Like Matt said, RMNP does
not allow mountain biking. Being closer to Salida, Buena Vista,
Gunnison, Crested Butte and other places that are a bit too far for the
northern front range zoo to day trip to is a major plus. As far as the
GRS's being picked off for hogging the road, this is a mountain bike NG
so who gives a ****?

JD

01-03-2007, 03:57 PM

MattB wrote:
> Craig Brossman wrote:
>> xxx wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:03:34 GMT, "cufliflox" <vervix@microsoft.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado
>>>> Springs has easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort
>>>> Collins is a lot closer to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard
>>>> about outlying areas such as Woodland Park. Which city is more fun
>>>> as a base?
>>>
>>>
>>> imho,
>>>
>>> Colorado Springs is very populated. The congested roads leads towards
>>> people running reds, and hitting each other. Because of this some
>>> people can't aford car insurance, so many uninsured/unlicensed drivers
>>> are on the roads. Also the Olympic Training center is there, the
>>> locals hate bike riding groups taking up two lanes, so it happens to
>>> be a local sport to run down a rider, or two, and get away with it.

>>>
>>> Careful, with what you base your relocation on, you have to live with
>>> it later. Just my option,
>>>
>>> xxx
>>
>>
>> It seems to me that there should be one name for the city that is
>> Colorado Springs-Denver-Boulder-Longmont-Fort Collins-...
>>
>
> Front Range?
>
> Matt (hi Craig!)

Good Point (Hey Matt, go snow?)

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado

Owner/Operator of the Pekingnese Ranch.

01-03-2007, 07:47 PM

cufliflox wrote:
> I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs has
> easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a lot closer
> to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about outlying areas such as
> Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?

College girls, road riding, access to Winter Park, Eldora, Steamboat =
Fort Collins

MILFS, tons of mountain biking, access to Salida, Crusty Butt, Monarch,
Brek, Copper, Wolf Creek, Vail, etc... = Colo Spgs.

The dividing line in Colorado is Monument. North you get evergreen
forest and dirt/grantite trails, and
south you get cactus/evergreen forest, loose gravel/trails, more of the
southwest type of mountains. The one bonus is that I can stare at
Pikes Peak all day long. CS is right at the base of the mountains.
The Fort is a few miles away.

If you live downtown or the west side of CS, you can pretty much ride
to any singletrack
without having to take your car. You can't do that in Ft. Collins. In
fact, I only know of
one place to MTB near Ft. Collins. There are tons of trails here in
CS. We have Pike National Forest at our doorstep and they DO allow
bikes on the trails. You can ride all the way around Pikes Peak if you
feel like it.

Monument is pretty cool also. Lots of trails no one knows about(Pike
National Forst).

The downside to the Springs is that it's getting crowded. The bible
pushers are only bad
on the north side of town. South side is all military, and we're
getting 25000 more people with all the base closings. East is all
overpriced tract homes and horseback riders.
Other than that, there are tons of cool laid back people here. Denver
is a white collar city, CS is blue collar. That's the main difference.

Oh yeah, if you're moving from out of state, there's a shortage of hot
women here in Colorado. Don't be surprised by the lack of hotties.
You might want to bring your own.

01-03-2007, 11:09 PM

Excellent info! I noticed that Fort Collins is a short ride to Cheyenne WY.
Is the neighboring Wyoming interesting at all? CS sounds good since it is
at the base of the mountains (like that better than being in the plains).

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> cufliflox wrote:
>> I have to relocate. Which city has better scenery? Colorado Springs has
>> easier access to Gunnison, Crested Butte, and Fort Collins is a lot
>> closer
>> to Rocky Mountain National Park. Also heard about outlying areas such as
>> Woodland Park. Which city is more fun as a base?
>
> College girls, road riding, access to Winter Park, Eldora, Steamboat =
> Fort Collins
>
> MILFS, tons of mountain biking, access to Salida, Crusty Butt, Monarch,
> Brek, Copper, Wolf Creek, Vail, etc... = Colo Spgs.
>
> The dividing line in Colorado is Monument. North you get evergreen
> forest and dirt/grantite trails, and
> south you get cactus/evergreen forest, loose gravel/trails, more of the
> southwest type of mountains. The one bonus is that I can stare at
> Pikes Peak all day long. CS is right at the base of the mountains.
> The Fort is a few miles away.
>
> If you live downtown or the west side of CS, you can pretty much ride
> to any singletrack
> without having to take your car. You can't do that in Ft. Collins. In
> fact, I only know of
> one place to MTB near Ft. Collins. There are tons of trails here in
> CS. We have Pike National Forest at our doorstep and they DO allow
> bikes on the trails. You can ride all the way around Pikes Peak if you
> feel like it.
>
> Monument is pretty cool also. Lots of trails no one knows about(Pike
> National Forst).
>
> The downside to the Springs is that it's getting crowded. The bible
> pushers are only bad
> on the north side of town. South side is all military, and we're
> getting 25000 more people with all the base closings. East is all
> overpriced tract homes and horseback riders.
> Other than that, there are tons of cool laid back people here. Denver
> is a white collar city, CS is blue collar. That's the main difference.
>
> Oh yeah, if you're moving from out of state, there's a shortage of hot
> women here in Colorado. Don't be surprised by the lack of hotties.
> You might want to bring your own.
>