Gretchen's Passport
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Homeschooling family of six, with 4 little girls who love to learn and explore! Now we will be traveling with a newborn all over again!! Transplants to Colorado from Southern California. We love to see and experience nature and history!
Our Family's Travel Personality
adventurous, curious, rowdy, relaxed, independent, energetic, spontaneous, easy_going
We Just Got Back From
California
Our Favorite Vacation Spot
South Dakota
A Place We'd Love To Visit
Yellowstone National Park
Favorite Vacation Memory
Too many to list!
Worst Travel Moment With My Kids:
Finding a ginormous spider in our hotel room right before bed!
Wintertime Daytrips from Colorado Springs/Denver
Things to do on the front range when its chilly outside!
3185 Venetucci Boulevard
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 25 2009
"Nice Ice Arena!"
There are a few times a year when you can public skate on the Ice in the main hall at the World Arena. One of these times is during the fundraiser for the Empty Stocking Fund. We skated several times during this event and it was a great experience! The Arena is huge, and it is fun to imagine skating with a audience filling the seats. There are also two more rinks that offer regular public skate session, as well as where Olympic hopefuls can train and take skating lessons, or participate in Ice Hockey leagues. Overall, a wonderful resource for the Colorado Springs area!
20 First Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado
1705 East Pikes Peak Avenue
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 20 2009
"Inexpensive and Fun!"
We love to skate, and Sertich is a great place to do it! It is clean, lots of seating, fun, and a great way to spend a couple of hours as a family. We have also had a birthday party here, and it was perfect! The staff did everything to make the birthday girl feel special, and really went above and beyond. Included in the birthday party is skate rental, a personalized cake, balloons, hot cocoa, and a t-shirt for the birthday child. We would definitely do it again!
8685 Explorer Dr.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 20 2009
"Free fun for the whole family"
What do you get with one big slide, two play areas, a free recording studio, and much much more? Whit's End in the Focus on the Family welcome center! There is a cafe with inexpensive and kid-friendly food and of course, ice cream in the soda shop! Also, free hosting to your child's birthday party! Overall, a great place to hang out with the kids, especially in inclement weather!
201 S. Fairview St.
Woodland Park, Colorado
reviewed on: March 20 2009
"Dinos galore"
The Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center is a very well designed museum filled with disosaur bone recreations and skeletons, as well as many hands on activities for young children. The Paleo Playground has a place for kids to make rubbings of dinos and leaves, feel inside boxes to guess what is inside (one has fossilized dinosaur poo, much to my children's delight!), and a box filled with sand and tools for an archeological dig.
400 South 21st Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 30 2009
"Selected by Mobile Travel Guide and Family Circle"
Another one of the stops on our tour of Colorado for our fourth grader's State History unit study. This Ghost Town Museum is wonderful! Admission during the summer includes panning for gold, a highlight for my kids for certain! We learned about the history of the cry, "Pike's Peak or Bust!" and experienced what life would have been like in the late 1800s. This is also a great place to visit during the winter as much of the experience is indoors and sheltered from the elements.
12290 Voyager Parkway
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 20 2009
"A must if you are a Compassion sponsor"
If you are going to be visiting the Colorado area and sponsor a child through Compassion International, you should come and tour the Global Ministry Center in Colorado Springs. My children particularly enjoyed the replica of a dwelling in a third world country, the artwork of children from around the world, and the dioramas of different areas in the world that Compassion works. My children proudly display the flags they were given, and they are reminders to pray for the child in India that we sponsor. And if you aren't a sponsor already, you should consider it today! Child sponsorship has greatly enriched our lives and is a tangible way to help a child in need.
225 North Gate Blvd.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 30 2009
"Interesting, working machines, and lots of info"
This is a great place to combine with your visit to the United States Air Force Academy, just across the street, with a picnic area. My girls just love the burros! Here you will find mining machines that still operate, tours, classes, exhibits, and for your older kids, a truly creepy haunted mine during Halloween. There is enough hands on activity to keep my kids interested, and even the website has some fun activities to reinforce what your kids learned at the museum once you get home.We like that you can pan for gold in a find and drop trough without having to pay for the experience. We also like dressing up in the mining uniforms. The machines are great, and my girls were particularly amazed by the giant Corliss engine with a wheel that weighs as much as 4 grown elephants.
We plan to attend a special event in June with the stamper machine is run during a rock festival.
215 South Tejon Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 20 2009
"Free museum full of Colorado history"
We went on a school trip for our oldest study of our state history. The museum has papers for several age groups about the many different exhibits within the museum. My younger girls particularly enjoyed the scavenger hunt. I am so glad the city provides this great resource for us! We especially love the real Native American artifcats on display.
1605 E. Pikes Peak Ave.
E Pikes Peak and Hancock Aves Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 31 2009
"This park has it all"
Wow, what an awesome resource provided to our community by the city of Colorado Springs. There is a gorgeous lake to fish, swim, or boat in. There is a play area. Bench swings are placed along the path around the lake. The whole park is just one of the very best, and we love hanging out here!
9 Capitol Hill Avenue
Manitou Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 30 2009
"Spectacular at Christmastime"
We visited this marvelous castle during the Victorian Christmas days, where the castle is decorated, there are refreshments, and it is just a unique experience. This castle is truly a remarkable place, when you enter you feel as if you have stepped back in time. There are also High Tea and Light Victorian teas in the tea room by reservation, as well as gorgeous gardens during the summer and late spring. Just an amazing place to visit all around!!
245 Bear Creek Road
near 26th Street and Lower Gold Camp Road Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 30 2009
"Trails and classes"
Bear Creek Nature Center offers great classes for kids of all ages in their Children's Nature Series. We really enjoy all of the hands-on learning in the main area of the center, from life cycles of insects to an actual beehive that allows the bees to come and go inside the facility. This fascinated my girls to no end that the bees were coming and going through a tube to their indoor hive! There is also a hollow tree and lots of animal puppets to play with, as well as real animal pelts to feel. A great free activity, and miles of hiking trails right outside!
4250 Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Road
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 18 2009
"A unique and wonderful zoo!"
As a family that has been to many zoos, we were very pleased to discover this wonderful zoo in our own backyard! One of the most unique and memorable exhibits is also one of the first you will see as you enter the zoo, the giraffe terrace. On the terrace you can purchase crackers and feed the giraffes! Be sure to bring your walking shoes and be prepared to hike a bit, as there is quite a bit of altitude gained as you walk the zoo! Remember, it isn't called the Mountain zoo for nothing! The new attractions added in the last 3 years have all been wonderful additions to the zoo, including the Skyride and the Rocky Mountain animals. Evening visits are especially fun, and the Christmas lights are beautiful!
2300 Steele Street
Denver, Colorado
reviewed on: March 18 2009
"Lots of fun in the heart of the City"
Great fun and lots of animals to see! Definitely worth a visit on your trip to the Mile High City. We particularly enjoyed all the baby animals! Denver Zoo is very committed to conservation and education, and is very engaging for the young and old. There are many, many interactive exhibits and shows for your family to enjoy! Also, many free days are offered throughout the year as part of the free family days in Denver.
3035 New Center Point
Colorado City, Colorado
reviewed on: March 25 2009
"The newest indoor fun in Colorado Springs"
iT'z has recently come to Colorado Springs to offer some competition to Mr. Biggs, Chuck E Cheese, and others. iT'z also offers bowling, several carnival style rides, bumper cars, and plenty of arcade games. They offer plenty of specials for different days of the week as well as coupons, and sometimes school/reading incentive programs. Another fun place to hang out once in a while or for a special reward.
5825 Mark Dabling Boulevard
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 25 2009
"Bowling, buffet, and indoor fun"
Mr. Biggs offers a warm spot for rowdiness and fun during the winter months, when playing outside isn't always a lot of fun, and during the summer months, a break from the heat! We enjoy the bumper bowling with our kiddos, the buffet, the race cars, miniature golf, and the inflatables. It is a special treat, that they are trying to make more affordable for families, but is still out of our price range for something to do more than once in a while, and only with a coupon!
5944 Stetson Hills Boulevard
Colorado Springs, Colorado
reviewed on: March 25 2009
"More affordable than its "bigg" brother"
Only $5 for the buffet and play deal, and tokens are 2 for 1, so this spot is a much more affordable option for a snowy or rainy day activity than Mr. Biggs, but it has much fewer activities to offer. My kids are young enough to enjoy the play city, bouncy castle, and ski-ball. The food is decent, and it feels cleaner than other Pizza/Play places. Still not somewhere we go often, but is a nice alternative to McDonald's for not too much more than the price of a Happy Meal.
