{"id":8599,"date":"2022-07-15T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=8599"},"modified":"2022-07-31T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T18:44:49","slug":"garden-of-the-gods-and-the-academy-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2022\/07\/15\/garden-of-the-gods-and-the-academy-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden of the Gods and the Academy Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This was another place I found when we got to Colorado Springs and figured we would make a trip over to check it out.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a pretty amazing place.\u00a0 You’d think it was \"\"<\/a>a national park, but it’s actually a city park.\u00a0 \u00a0There are some pretty amazing rock formations of vibrant colors with smooth sidewalks paved to wander around all of them.\u00a0\u00a0 And another amazing thing is there wasn’t a charge to visit.\u00a0 Most of the national parks are around $30 a day now.\u00a0 I kept driving thinking I would find the pay station, but there wasn’t one.\u00a0 Nice!<\/p>\n

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I call them rocks, but they were really 1,000-foot-tall mountains that just looked like one big rock.\u00a0 It’s something you must see if visiting Colorado Springs and only have an hour or two.<\/p>\n

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I looked up the Air Force Academy Chapel to find out its hours, and it’s closed till 2027 for repairs.\u00a0 What a bummer.\u00a0\u00a0 2027 is a long way away, there must be something terribly wrong with it.\u00a0\u00a0 July 16th 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was another place I found when we got to Colorado Springs and figured we would make a trip over to check it out.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a pretty amazing place.\u00a0 You’d think it was a national park, but it’s actually a city park.\u00a0 \u00a0There are some pretty amazing rock formations of vibrant colors with smooth … <\/p>\n

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