COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – “America the beautiful.” Not everyone knows that those words and that famous song were inspired by the mountain right in our backyard!
When Katherine Lee Bates gazed down from the summit of Pikes Peak 132 years ago, she was inspired to write one of the most famous pieces of Americana. And Pikes Peak became forever immortalized, no longer just Colorado’s mountain, it became America’s mountain!
A very lucky group of people gets to experience the same awe that Katherine Lee Bates felt, but they get to experience it every single day! These are the staff members who work on Pikes Peak – rangers, road crew, administrators, and others. And in honor of that most American holiday, the Fourth of July, 11 News asked those staff members to share some of their favorite personal photos and videos of America’s mountain!…