By Seth Boster
From The Gazette
Colorado Springs—Bret Tennis started working around Garden of the Gods 17 years ago.
“We used to say 1.2 million visitors a year when I started here,” said the park operations administrator. “Now we say over 4.5 million.”
The annual numbers are reportedly similar at Rocky Mountain National Park, where people can spread out across 265,807 acres.
In Garden of the Gods, they pack into 1,367 acres.
The vast majority come in the summer—tourists on vacation between Memorial Day and Labor Day. It’s been that way for as long as Stewart Green has been going to the red rock wonderland, since his 1960s childhood in Colorado Springs….