The Drake

Public-Access Lore

N LATE JANUARY, the Colorado Court of Appeals gave a favorable ruling in Roger Hill’s decade-long fight for public access along a stretch of Colorado’s Arkansas River. The case stems from a 2012 incident in which Hill was run off a prime piece of water that he feels

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