It was a time to celebrate “A Landscape to Love” for the Garden of the Gods Foundation’s charitable support “to preserve and protect the Garden of the Gods Park” by providing funds toward projects and programs benefiting the city’s most popular park.
Gathering at Garden of the Gods Visitor & Nature Center overlooking the park and the mountains on June 26, the foundation’s members and friends heard an annual update about the group’s work that since 1994 has raised more than $7.6 million “for maintenance, preservation and education programs for the park.” In 2025 that was $803,451.
Each year the Colorado Springs Park, Recreation and Cultural Services Department prepares a list of prioritized proposed projects that is reviewed by the foundation’s volunteer board of trustees, which allocates toward projects for which there is immediate available funding. Parks epartment projects are added as funding becomes available…