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You’ve packed your bags for your budget friendly, spring getaway to The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. You ask, "Is exploring the Pikes Peak region with your family for (gasp!) FREE the impossible dream? Not in Colorado Springs! Experience Colorado Springs Convention & Visitor’s Bureau compiled a list of 30 attractions and activities for FREE, many family friendly!
Colorado Springs has so much to offer no matter the reason or season you decide to visit this beautiful mountain city. Forget traveling on a budget - Colorado Springs offers 30 attractions and activities for FREE!
I’ve highlighted a few of my favorites below (alphabetically), courtesy of Experience Colorado Springs Convention & Visitor's Bureau:
Art on the Streets
Downtown Colorado Springs
719-886-0088
Air Force Academy (Visitors Center and Chapel)
719-333-2025
Labor Day Wknd-Memorial Day Wknd, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Memorial Day Wknd -Labor Day Wknd, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Bear Creek Regional Park, Center & Nature Trail
245 Bear Creek Road
719-520-6387
Mon.-Fri. 8:00 – 5:00, Sat. & Sun. 12:00 – 4:00
Broadmoor Carriage House and Museum
Broadmoor Hall, The Broadmoor 1 Lake Avenue
719-634-7711
Mon-Sat: 9am- 5pm, Sun.: 1pm- 5pm
Colorado Balloon Classic
Memorial Park, Mark the date!! Labor Day Weekend
Launch at 7 a.m. daily, weather permitting
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
215 S. Tejon St.
719-385-5990
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
Focus on the Family Visitor Center
8655 Explorer Dr.
719-531-3328
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (Open ‘til 5 p.m. during summer)
Garden of the Gods Park and Visitor and Nature Center
1805 N. 30th St.
719-634-6666
Labor Day Wknd-Memorial Day Wknd, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Memorial Day Wknd -Labor Day Wknd, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
Free guided walks and nature programs at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Multi-media presentation $2/$1, Bus tour in summer $3.75/2.50
Manitou Springs Mineral Springs Walking Tours
354 Manitou Ave.
719-685-5089
Memorial Park Skate Park
1605 E. Pikes Peak Ave.
This newly opened 40,000 square feet of obstacles, bowls and pools is ready for your family’s sickest tricks. It’s a destination skate park, professionally designed and constructed, competition-size skate area including features like bowls, street course, backyard-style pool and a unique “hole-in-the-wall.” Non-skating features are an events plaza with a picnic pavilion and natural boulders for those preferring to watch rather than participate. The skate park is three times the size of other skate parks in Colorado Springs and the second largest skate park in Colorado.
Red Rocks Open Space
Highway 24 just west of 31st Street
United States Olympic Training Center and Visitor Center
1750 E. Boulder St.
719-866-4618
May-Sept, tours every ½ hour from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Oct.-April, tours every hour from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
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