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Article: An urban oasis/ Palmer Park a sandstone wonder in middle of Colorado Springs
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- August 16, 2001
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Remember when you were a child, playing hide and seek, and you
hid behind a shrub in plain sight of the boy who was "it" and he ran
right by you?
That's what Palmer Park is like - hidden, in plain sight. Hidden
so well, smack dab in the middle of Colorado Springs, that you might
just run right by it.
Palmer Park is a 738-acre expanse of sandstone canyons the color
of butterscotch that sits near the geographic center of Colorado
Springs, off Maizeland Road next to the busiest thoroughfare in the
city - Academy Boulevard.
Built on a mesa, the park is a tangle of prickly bouquets of
flowering yucca and twisting trails that wind through dense scrub
oak, ponderosa pine and pungent juniper ...