if you start in the center of colorado springs and head west it's like taking a time machine back to the 1960s. By the time you get to manitou you're in hippy central. I actually saw an old school bus, full of hippies, parked in downtown colorado springs, on sierra madre. They were all hanging out outside the bus, bbqing and playing guitars.
and btw, I'm not hating on hippies or anything, I just think it's kind of funny how colorado seems to attract so many of them.
Manitou is a cool place. I live across town in Colorado Springs. Here are a few more photos I've taken of Manitou: