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'Fresh Air Friday' brings alternative to Black Friday

U.S. Forest Service

Officials with Colorado Parks and Wildlife are urging people to skip the shopping and get outside today.

 

Admission to all of Colorado’s 41 state parks is free today, in celebration of “Fresh Air Friday.” It’s a way to counter the post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy, known as Black Friday. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is encouraging residents to, instead, have a “blue sky Friday” or a “green trees Friday.”

Great Outdoors Colorado is covering the cost of admission to state parks; they use Colorado Lottery proceeds to preserve and promote the state’s parks, wildlife and open space.

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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