At 4:30 p.m. on June 9, 2013, Mitchell Dale Stehling set out on the quarter-mile-long hike to Mesa Verde National Park’s Spruce Tree House ruin. He never returned, sparking a massive search that never yielded any evidence of what happened to him.
Until now.
After the National Park Service received an anonymous tip...
During a normal year, right about now, a month out, is when most of us would be figuring what to wear for Halloween. This year nobody would really blame you if you wanted to skip the holiday altogether. After all, it’s not like you can safely mingle at parties or anything of that nature. Then again, do you have anything...
Three miles north of the town of Hooper, Colorado — population about 100 — a white tower rises out of the desert. Centrally located between the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the east and the San Juan Mountains to the west, the viewing platform provides observers with an unobstructed view of a large portion of the San Luis...
It was November 1985, when a passenger enjoying their time on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad caught sight of a disturbing scene that would completely upend their trip: a local business owner laying dead in the back of his truck, murdered. It turned out, that death was only the tip of the iceberg of a much...
It seems counterintuitive, but if you want to see a pretty bad-ass waterfall, head to arid Arizona.
And no, we’re not talking about Havasupai Falls. Lovely as it is, it’s kind of hard to get to, being part of a 20-mile round-trip hike on the Havasupai tribe reservation, where they only give out a few camping permits a...
DGO tends to be a relatively substance-heavy magazine, writing at length about our enjoyment of cannabis and alcohol in particular. But we recognize that drugs, legal or otherwise, are not for everybody. Which is a large part of why we were curious about how people in recovery from substance abuse disorders are faring during...
Content warning: This article includes descriptions of violence and murder.
“Unsolved Mysteries” is one of the greats. It’s a classic true crime and paranormal television show that, for many, inspired a lifetime obsession of the unexplainable....
When 2015 headlines broke that 32 people were arrested for their involvement in a marijuana growing and smuggling operation that stretched from Colorado to Minnesota, initial interest in Operation #GoldenGofer peaked and then quickly died down.
However, for former Westword writer Chris Walker, the story was far from...
When you first watched “Jurassic Park,” were you one of the few people in the audience that was mildly interested in the dinosaurs but super excited by the prospect of digging up fossilized plants and animals?
Side note: In the movie, right before they see the brachiosaurus for the first time, paleobotanist Ellie...
Content warning: This article includes descriptions of murder and suicide.
At about 9:24 a.m. on May 29, 1998, Officer Dale Claxton with the Cortez Police Department radioed the words: “Behind Mack truck reported stolen; south in County Road 27 approximately one-half mile from McElmo Bridge.”
The water tanker...
COVID is cramping our traveling plans. No summer vacation to Tokyo or road trip to New Orleans for the Jazz and Heritage Festival. What a downer 2020 has turned out to be.
This begs the question: How can we travel somewhere cool but still maintain social distancing and not potentially expose hundreds of people or get...
In light of the uproar around the discovery of a treasure chest he hid, Forrest Fenn has provided another clue as to the location of the controversial cache.
The treasure, worth an estimated $2 million, was found in Wyoming, announced Fenn, an 89-year-old Santa Fe author and artifact dealer.
“Because I promised...
