The top of Colorado Springs’ Cheyenne Mountain is about to open to the public for the first time

The top of Colorado Springs’ Cheyenne Mountain is about to open to the public for the first time after eight years of preparation.

Cheyenne Mountain State Park hoped to host a soft opening of the new Dixon Trail by Friday but was delayed because the trail system was not quite ready, said Mitchell Martin, park manager. The soft opening should be soon, though, followed by a grand opening in October, he said.

The park, which opened to the public in 2006, and the city bought most of the land on the top of the mountain in 2009. Volunteers began work on the upper trail system in 2011.

Roughly 100 years ago, the top of the mountain was a homestead, Martin said. It had been privately owned until it was incorporated into the park.

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