What makes a city or neighborhood “walkable?” Does Colorado Springs have what it takes? What’s being done to improve that? Meet the woman leading the charge, Lelia Gibson-Green, who last week led the 2nd Colorado Springs Walkability Summit. She’s also responsible for persuading Colorado Springs City Council to proclaim today, September 22, Walkability Day. In this episode she shares how she came to be a walkability champion, details of the summit, and what comes next.

LINKS:

Walking Leader Training – September 27, 2025, 9-1:30

Penrose Public Library Downtown

Register: https://forms.gle/V3QE4t46U5h2toR88

MENTIONED:

Hey Neighbor

America Walks

AARP

Downtown Colorado Springs

Mayor Yemi

1,000 Neighborhood Gatherings

Juaquin Mobley

Whealthy Unlimited

Pikes Peak Bulletin

Walk2Connect

Blackpackers

Peak Vista

Pikes Peak Outdoor Recreation Alliance

Diversus Health

Deerfield Hills Community Center

Loving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.

Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.

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