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Where you could go hiking, mountain biking, walking, etc.
Just get away from it all.
Think GREEN!
Thoughts?
Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Seattle come to mind immediately.. No skiing within the city limits obviously, but endless green space, trails, etc. built into the urban fabric.
Colorado Springs - 136 neighborhood, 8 community, 7 regional parks, and 5 sports complexes totaling 9,000 acres. 500 acres of trails, which are 160 miles of park trails and 105 miles of urban trails with more being added. There are 5,000 acres of open spaces in 48 designated open space areas. All this squeezed into a city of 195 sq miles, so just a hair over 11% of the city is parks, trails, and designated open space. Since the city sits at the base of Pikes Peak, many of these trails join county trails running up into the mountains and National Forest west of the city. Hiking, biking, walking, rock climbing, or caving is within minutes of nearly any address in the city. We used to even have skiing within the city, but it closed down a few decades ago. The city also maintains the highway up Pikes Peak, so we have one of the highest marathon races in the nation at 14, 110' in elevation and one of the most arduous work outs around in the Manitou Incline which is a 2000' run up a 45-68% grade starting at 6500'.
Colorado Springs for sure. Spokane had a pretty nice outdoor space in the city as well. Seattle and Salt lake city require you to do a little driving if you want to mountain bike. If its relegated to inside city limits Colorado Springs has great outdoor spaces that will be hard to find else where.
Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Seattle come to mind immediately.. No skiing within the city limits obviously, but endless green space, trails, etc. built into the urban fabric.
Salt Lake actually lacks in parks and "endless green space".
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Portland, Oregon. It has an abundance of parkland, right on the edge of downtown in the tall evergreens of the West Hills, along the river, through a series of park blocks in downtown, and thickly forested parkland all throughout the city. I dig the view of Portland looking out at downtown near the rose gardens, it looks and feels like a city in a park.
Salt Lake actually lacks in parks and "endless green space".
Boise and Spokane are better options.
Ok whatever, SLC has acres upon acres of mountain biking in the city and within 10 minutes just like Boise. In the city itself we have dozens of parks and a river parkway connecting to trails that are over 100 miles long. I get your not a fan of slc but don’t say information that is not correct”in my opinion”.
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