Colorado Springs City To Observe Christmas Eve, Christmas And New Year’s Day Holidays

Press release from the City of Colorado Springs:

December21, 2020

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The following City of Colorado Springs administrative and elected administrative offices and agencies will be fully closed Thursday and Friday (Dec. 24-25) and Jan. 1 in observance of Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year’s Day:

• Administrative offices for Mountain Metropolitan Transit
• City Administration Building
• City Clerk
• City Hall
• Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum (temporarily closed since Nov. 28)
• Deerfield, Hillside, Meadows Park and Otis Community Centers
• Helen Hunt Falls Visitors Center (closed for season)
• Municipal Court
• Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services Administrative Building
• Patty Jewett Golf Course (closed Dec. 25 only)
• Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain (closed Dec. 25 only)
• Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site
• Sales Tax Office
• Sports Office and Therapeutic Recreation Program at Memorial Park
• Starsmore Visitor and Nature Center
• Valley Hi Golf Course (closed Dec. 25 only)

The following will remain open during these holidays, though some have shortened operating hours as noted below:

• Garden of the Gods Park: open
• Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain:
  • Closed Dec. 25
  • Open Dec. 24 and Jan. 1, weather permitting, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
  • Call (719) 385-7325 for the most current weather conditions.
• Evergreen and Fairview cemeteries: gates are open to visitors, offices are closed
• Sertich Ice Center:
  • Masks are required and rooms are limited to 10 people
  • Dec. 24: public skate from 1:15-2:45 p.m.
  • Dec. 31: public skate from 1:15-2:45 p.m. and 5-6:30 p.m.
  • Jan. 1: public skate from 12-1:30 p.m. and 3:30-5 p.m.
• Skate in the Park presented by Academy Bank at Acacia Park in Downtown Colorado Springs:
  • Online reservations are required; tickets can be purchased at DowntownCS.com/Skate.
  • Dec. 24 and 31: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
  • Dec. 25: closed
  • Jan. 1: 1-9 p.m.
• Patty Jewett and Valley Hi municipal golf courses:
  • Online reservations and payment required
  • Dec. 24, 31: opens at 9 a.m.; last 18-hole tee time is 10 a.m., last 9-hole tee time is noon
  • Dec. 25: closed
  • Jan. 1: opens at 11 a.m.
• Patty Jewett Bar & Grill – Heated covered outside dining - Weather pending
  • Dec. 24: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
  • Dec. 25: closed
  • Dec. 31: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, the Pikes Peak AdAmAn Club will present a fireworks show from the summit of Pikes Peak – America’s Mountain. The club will also commemorate Colorado Springs’ sesquicentennial birthday at 9 p.m. by launching 150 shells into the night sky from the summit as a symbol of the 150 years since Colorado Springs was established. For more information on the annual tradition which began in 1922, visit adaman.org.

This press release was produced by the City of Colorado Springs. The views expressed here are the author’s own.