BY TYNIN FRIES, TFRIES@DENVERPOST.COM

Heya, folks!

While we wait for the mud to resolve on trails, I'll be getting my garden up and going this weekend. Meanwhile, in classic Colorado dichotomies, there's one last chance for spring skiing.

Heads up

After a much-needed snowstorm, temperatures will heat back up this weekend, bringing sunny 70-degree days.

The Frontier Drive-Inn near Alamosa added vintage Airstream trailers, campsites and Quonset huts for 2026. Guests can stay overnight and watch movies from beach chairs. (Provided by Frontier Drive-Inn)

Your Weekly 5:

1. Movie-theater hotel adds vintage Airstreams, Quonset huts in San Luis Valley
2. Over the pickleball craze? A bowling league might be up your alley
3. Bridge project to temporarily close trails in Rocky Mountain National Park
4. 10 unique global hotels that are perfect for stargazing
5. Dragon Boat Festival will return to Sloan’s Lake despite water health concerns

Worth Your Time

Four whitewater events in next month’s GoPro Mountain Games in Vail have been relocated elsewhere and four others have been canceled due to low water in Gore Creek. (Jon Resnick/provided by Vail Valley Foundation)

Low water forces relocation of GoPro Mountain Games whitewater events

Get Yourself Outdoors

The Arapahoe Basin ski area in Summit County on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Colorado ski season ends this weekend with final resort set to close

Colorado’s wacky spring, which has given us May weather in March and March weather in May, has provided Arapahoe Basin with a nice boost for its final weekend of skiing.

MORE HEADLINES

• Bear attack injures two hikers in Yellowstone National Park
• Colorado man with ski injury fights insurance plan that requires reauthorization of his care every 2 days
• Deep freeze wipes out some peach crops on Colorado’s Western Slope, Palisade mostly unscathed
• Colorado will face a ‘very challenging’ wildfire season as drought covers entire state, fire leaders say

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