BnB Close to Garden of the Gods and USAFA

The Neighborhood

This home is located near UCCS in Northeast Colorado Springs. Just 10 minutes south by car, downtown offers the Cottonwood Center for the Arts, the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts, the US Olympic & Paralympic Museum, the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, award-winning dining, unique shopping, and much more. This home is right on the edge of Portal Park, offering a walking path and open space with stunning mountain views, as well as a well-equipped playground and basketball courts. You’re just a 6-minute drive from Palmer Park, with over 25 miles of trails, a scenic overlook and drive, a botanical reserve, horse stables, picnic areas and more. Golf enthusiasts won’t want to miss a visit to historic Patty Jewett Golf Course, open for play continuously since 1898. Open to the public, it offers 18 and 9-hole courses, as well as a bar and grill with breathtaking views of Pikes Peak. Just 9 minutes by car. When it comes to everyday conveniences, you’re ideally situated. You’re mere minutes from a long list of eateries, breweries, and coffee shops. You won’t need to drive far for anything you could possibly need, with many familiar retail stores close by, including a Safeway supermarket (8 minutes), Walmart (9 minutes), and Trader Joe’s (7 minutes). The Colorado Springs region offers a perfect balance of exhilarating outdoor activities and more urbane pleasures like museums, galleries, and performing arts venues. There’s something for everyone, and it’s all within easy reach. Here are some notable destinations and their drive times from your location: Downtown Colorado Springs – dining, shopping, museums, art galleries, performing arts venues (10 minutes) Sunset Mesa Open Space: includes a 3.2-mile trail with opportunities for spotting wildlife (12 minutes) Ute Valley Park – hiking, mountain biking among diverse wildlife and rocky-forested geological features (13 minutes) High Chaparral Open Space: highest point in eastern Colorado Springs, great views of land and wildlife alike (14 minutes) Garden of the Gods Visitor & Nature Center: breathtaking, 300-foot-tall sandstone rock formations, hiking trails (15 minutes) Red Rock Canyon Open Space: hiking trails, bike park (17 minutes) Bear Creek Regional Park East: hiking and biking trails, tennis courts, playground (18 minutes) Cheyenne Caňon Park - 1,600-acre park with hiking and biking trails, picturesque Helen Falls, habitat for Black Bear, Mountain Lion and Mule Deer (21 minutes) Manitou Springs – quaint, artsy small town with shopping and both casual and fine dining (21 minutes) Cheyenne Mountain Zoo – wide variety of animals from around the world in a unique and picturesque mountain setting (24 minutes) Pikes Peak (a/k/a “America’s Mountain”: a must-see, standing a breathtaking 14,115 feet above sea level (26 minutes)