History still has its feet rooted in the present in Cripple Creek, and no event symbolizes that more than the annual Donkey Derby Days. But this year, it almost slipped into the past forever.

Gold drew settlers to Cripple Creek in the 1890s and the tour of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine takes you down 1,000 feet in the country's only vertical shaft gold mine tour. You'll learn about the ...

CRIPPLE CREEK — A call to action is taking place in the Cripple Creek community. The small town is home to more than a dozen feral donkeys that freely roam the area. A group of volunteers takes ...

CRIPPLE CREEK — For more than 100 years, people have been coming to a small Colorado town with the dreams of striking it rich. It started with tens of thousands of gold-seekers in the late 1800s ...

The Cripple Creek Ice Festival will add more days to its schedule this year. It opens Saturday and runs through Feb. 23. Visitors can watch seven teams of ice carvers from around the state make ...

CRIPPLE CREEK — A big tradition returns to Cripple Creek this weekend. We’re talking about the town’s popular Ice Festival.. Starting Saturday, Feb. 17th, the large ice sculptures will flood ...

Ice Castles will return to Colorado this winter, but in new location 00:43. A popular winter attraction will make a return to Colorado this year after several years away.

Children enjoy the Ice Castles in Dillon on Dec. 21, 2018. The installation will pop up in two locations for the 2024-25 winter — in Cripple Creek and in Eagle.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (KDVR) — Locals in Cripple Creek are dealing with back-to-back hailstorms, with most of the damage coming from Friday’s storm.

Following other scrambling local governments in Colorado ski towns, Cripple Creek has issued a nine-month moratorium on opening or operating new short-term rental properties.