Letter from Charlie Green
Colorado Central – May 2005 – Colorado Central Magazine
Ed or Martha:
The regional roundup in the April Colorado Central had an article about tourist traps, specifically the Royal Gorge Bridge Park. One factual error about which you have probably already heard: the North Pole is in Cascade. I’m not sure it or the May Museum of Natural History are in “our” Central Colorado. Colorado Springs has more than its share of tacky touristy things: Seven Falls (with new high tech lighting), Ghost Town, and the Cliff Dwellings come to mind.
By the way, the May Museum has a new bug out front since the old one from the 70s had been legless for several years after souvenir hunters/vandals removed about one section of leg per year, eventually leaving a legless bug floating in air.
Charlie Green
Waitin’ for Christo in Texas Creek
Dear Charlie,
Sorry about that; all I remembered after noting that North Pole was on a Cañon City area tourist site was that it was between Salida and Colorado Springs. Then, with a little bit of help from the billboard for North Pole that’s between Salida and Cañon City on Highway 50, I seem to have misplaced it. Thanks for helping me find the North Pole. Now all I need is a compass.
Martha
