Garden of the Gods is a public park in Colorado Springs, CO with 1300 acres of towering sandstone rock formations. It sits at the edge of the front range, the easternmost section of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Since our visit fell on a Saturday, we opted to stay away from the main rock section (that was, in fact crawling with crowds of people), and hike a series of trails that runs the perimeter of the main rock section of the park.
What made the hike interesting was that we needed to pick out the junctions of 4 separate trails. We were assured by a person at the visitor center that the trails were well marked. It would have been so much easier if that had been the case. We found that trails would start and stop without signage. Fortunately, we had a downloaded trail map on my phone to follow that showed us whether we were following the correct trail, and we only had to backtrack a couple of times.
We were amazed at the number of people with dogs on the trail, many with multiple dogs (as many as 5). The weather was perfect, and the wind had carried the smoke from fires northwest of Denver away from Colorado Springs for the day.
Photos here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UvfDwd6XiDXTB2vx6
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