Finding the North Pole

Letter from Charlie Green

Colorado Central - May 2005 - Colorado Central Magazine - No. 135 - Page 20
Copyright © 2005 by Charlie Green and Central Colorado Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
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Ed or Martha:

The regional roundup in the April Colorado Central had an article about tourist traps, specifically the Royal Gorge Bridge Park. One factual error about which you have probably already heard: the North Pole is in Cascade. I'm not sure it or the May Museum of Natural History are in "our" Central Colorado. Colorado Springs has more than its share of tacky touristy things: Seven Falls (with new high tech lighting), Ghost Town, and the Cliff Dwellings come to mind.

[Bug will all its legs promoting the May Museum]

By the way, the May Museum has a new bug out front since the old one from the 70s had been legless for several years after souvenir hunters/vandals removed about one section of leg per year, eventually leaving a legless bug floating in air.

 Charlie Green
 Waitin' for Christo in Texas Creek

Dear Charlie,

Sorry about that; all I remembered after noting that North Pole was on a Cañon City area tourist site was that it was between Salida and Colorado Springs. Then, with a little bit of help from the billboard for North Pole that's between Salida and Cañon City on Highway 50, I seem to have misplaced it. Thanks for helping me find the North Pole. Now all I need is a compass.

Martha

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