Climbing the Manitou Incline – One Step at a Time
afpwnc.org2025-07-01T08:51:20-04:00Climbing the Manitou Incline – One Step at a Time Well, I got influenced. Last year, social media introduced me to the Manitou Incline, an “extreme” tourist attraction near Pikes Peak in Colorado. Originally built in 1907 as a cable car route, it was damaged by a rockslide in the ’90s and reinvented as a staircase made of the remaining wooden ties - 2,768 steps that climb over 2,000 feet in under a mile. So when I booked a trip to Denver this summer, I channeled Elle Woods energy and added the Incline to my itinerary (what, like it’s hard?). I’m [...]
