Colorado Springs has a great walking and biking trail network. Yesterday we walked a piece of the Pikes Peak Greenway / Front Range Trail / New Santa Fe Trail from the trailhead near I25 and Woodmen Road. This piece of trail has so many names because so many different entities seem to have jurisdiction, and it covers such a long distance. We only walked a very small piece.
The Trails and Open Space Coalition has been very active here in getting land acquired for trails, and our walk was so pleasant, we found ourselves wondering why we have not done that piece more often, given the trailhead is probably 12 minutes from our house in Briargate. The trail does follow the railroad tracks some, and one train came along that was fairly noisy, but this section that goes north from Woodment Road is really a pleasant walk through the woods along Monument Creek, and we could not even hear the freeway in the distance.