Outdoors reporter
John Meyer
John Meyer is the Post's expert on the outdoors including skiing, mountaineering and endurance sports, He is a member of the Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame and the Colorado Running Hall of Fame. The International Ski Federation has honored him with its FIS Journalist Award for more than 30 years of covering U.S. Ski Team athletes and events. He climbed to 24,000 feet on Mount Everest in 1985, has run 13 marathons and is a former Olympics reporter who covered 12 Olympic Games. He began his time at The Denver Post in 2000 after 19 years at the Rocky Mountain News. His favorite outdoor activities include running, cycling, hiking and backcountry ski touring, especially under a full moon.
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Brainard Lake still one of the best hiking destinations in northern Colorado — if you can get a reservation
Beautiful lakes, great hiking, expansive views and dramatic mountain peaks.

Idaho Springs hopes to strike gold again with scenic gondola, mountaintop attraction
Ground has been broken on a $58 million project to build a 1.2-mile gondola that will haul 22 10-person cabins up the mountain from the historic Argo Mill in town.

What to do this weekend: Celebrate Colorado Day, a whiskey party, and astronomy
Your best bets for the weekend include toasting our state.

There’s a pooping problem on Colorado’s 14ers. Here’s what’s being done to help flush it away.
A crusade to combat the proliferation of poop in Colorado's backcountry entered a new frontier this week with the creation of a "Clean 14" initiative focusing on the state's iconic...

50ish-year reunion: As teenagers, they helped build the Colorado Trail
"When you’re doing a thing, and you’re having fun at it, or you’re having an adventure, you never know where that falls in with the best times of your life."

This Colorado ski resort might have the coolest way to beat the heat
If you're looking for a place to chill on a hot summer day, Keystone's mountaintop sledding venue might be hard to beat.

Colorado group wants to protect public lands from overcrowding
When an unprecedented collaboration of northern Colorado public lands agencies set out last winter to gauge the depth of public concern over increasingly crowded parks and forests along the Front...

Half of popular Jeffco open space area will close until spring 2025
The project will include a major rebuild of the Stagecoach trailhead.

Colorado wildflowers are blooming early, with some areas peaking now
"My recommendation is that folks hurry up, go experience it now. "The flowers are amazing."

Durango runner posts “fastest known time” on Colorado Trail
After running and power walking 487 miles from Denver to Durango to complete the Colorado Trail in record time, trail runner Kyle Curtin had plenty of time to reflect on...