Best name of the year
Faraway Nearby Park, Hughes Road (next to Many Ponies Outfit) on Wilson Mesa, Telluride
From a distance.
Among Colorado’s newest parks is Telluride’s charmingly named Faraway Nearby Park. The park, created by Loey Ringquist of the Faraway Foundation, was dedicated about a week ago. The park is privately owned but is open to passers-by.
Bada-Bing!
Orchard Valley Farms, 15836 Black Bridge Road, Paonia; 970-527-6838; and other venues
Pick of the crop.
It’s cherry-pickin’ time in Colorado, and the U-pick farms are ready for customers. Expect to pay from $1.50 to $1.75 a pound for Bing, Rainer and other varieties. Advice from Orchard Valley Farms grower Kathy Leland: Choose ripe cherries with flexible green stems. Dark and brittle stems denote older fruit. Freeze whole, or dry.
Hurray for Ouray
Guided historic tours, $10 per person, Ouray; 970-325-4576
Where the Popsicle was born.
Three guided tours — Main Street, the local cemetery and the county historical museum — promise engaging surprises. Among them: In which Ouray building was the Popsicle invented? What does a 100-year-old Edison phonograph sound like? Who was the former Ouray mayor whose song ranked No. 1 on Billboard’s 1976 chart?
