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A group enjoys the warm weather as they pass by Cheyenne Mountain, seen in the background, during a nature walk on Coyote Run trail at Cheyenne Mountain State Park in Colorado Springs.
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More delays for trail to top of Cheyenne Mountain
Latest estimate puts completion in 2016
October 06, 2010 2:20 PM
THE GAZETTE
Cheyenne Mountain State Park opened four years ago, but it could be six more years before a trail to the top of namesake peak is finished.
“The answer is we’re behind schedule,” state park manager Mitch Martin told the Colorado Springs Trails, Open Space and Parks Working Comittee today.
The 1,680-acre state park southwest of Colorado Springs was created with state and TOPS sales tax funding, with the city spending $8.2 million on 1,100 acres, land the city owns but the state manages.
