Jobs

Autos

Real Estate

Classifieds

Place an Ad

BEST PLACE TO WORK OUT WITH YOUR KIDS
VILLASPORT
This health club goes way beyond the old room in the back where you warehouse the kids while you work out. Instead, the VillaKids program here engages them in music, dance or other structured activities so you can cycle without guilt.

5904 Prairie Schooner Drive, 522-1221
villasport.com

comments(1)

rating

BEST NEW FAMILY ATTRACTION
IT’Z
iT'Z combines the high-end video games of Dave & Busters with the kind of thrill rides we miss from JoyRides, the carnival games of Manitou's Arcade Amusements and an elaborate Golden Corral-style buffet. It's sure to ensure fun for kids 5 to 17 and exhaustion for parents of all ages.

3035 New Center Point, 623-1550

itzusa.com/colorado

comments(0)

rating

BEST FAMILY FUN CENTER
MR. BIGGS FAMILY FUN CENTER
The Bigg man certainly has some tough competition with iT'Z. But Biggs continues to play with a wider assortment of toys: from the Little Bigg Town, where toddlers can pretend they're bakers, princesses or explorers, to the LaserJam arena, where teens and tweens can take on their parents with laser guns.

5825 Mark Dabling Blvd., 955-7220
mrbiggsffc.com

comments(0)

rating

READERS' CHOICE - BEST PLACE FOR A KID'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
MR. BIGG’S FAMILY FUN CENTER
If you're the birthday girl or boy, it doesn't get much more fun than this. You have your own special party room, essentially a base of operations where you can eat pizza or cake before launching into the endless diversions Mr. Bigg's offers. They include go-carts, laser tag, video games, a carousel and much more.

5825 Mark Dabling Blvd., 955-7220

mrbiggsffc.com

comments(0)

rating

BEST BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR THE ACTIVE SET
ARTSPORTS
Sometimes, you need to pry those game controllers from your kids' hands and get them bouncing. And nobody does the big bounce like ArtSports, home of the 100-foot-long, in-ground trampoline, promoted as the largest foam block pit in the country, and extreme swings and bungees that will get the kids feeling like Spider-Man.

780 Vondelpark Drive, 531-5867
artsportsworld.com

comments(6)

rating

BEST BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR BUDDING ARTISTS
ARTFUL ADVENTURES
This place has a cool alternative to those horrid goodie bags parents feel required to buy all the guests. Instead, they all get to create their own piece of art as they paint pottery they can take home.

3586-C Hartsel Drive, 264-6767

artful-adventures.com

comments(0)

rating

BEST PLACE TO SPARK IMAGINATION
THE IMAGINATION CELEBRATION
Born as an outreach program of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the local initiative has grown legs even the folks in Washington never would have expected. The Imagination Celebration regularly holds kid-centered arts events at the Pikes Peak Center, does countless programs in the schools and has a regular outlet for fun and imagination - Celebration Place - in The Citadel mall.

imaginationcelebration.org

comments(0)

rating

BEST PLACE TO NURTURE A CHILD'S TALENT
THE COLORADO SPRINGS CONSERVATORY
There may be better places to learn to sing or play the guitar. But if you're looking for an arts immersion that will transform your children into maestros in any art forms they choose, The Conservatory is the place to go.

1430 N. Hancock Ave., 577-4556

coloradospringsconservatory.org

comments(0)

rating

BEST OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD ADVENTURE
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER
Step into Mission Control and you become the ultimate space geek. Challenger can simulate an entire space mission and stimulate your child's intellect in new ways.

10215 Lexington Drive, 598-9755

clccs.org

comments(1)

rating

the gazette file
Children love to play around the Uncle Wilber fountain at Acacia Park.

BEST PLAYGROUND
UNCLE WILBER
From Memoral to Labor Day weekends, this moving, spraying, musical piece of art on the southwest corner of Acacia Park attracts huge crowds of kids and plenty of screams. The contraption was designed, built and donated by the Smokebrush Foundation.

smokebrush.org/unclewilber.htm

comments(1)

rating

BEST PLACE FOR TEENS
EAST TEEN CENTER
As an ETC blogger says, this place gets a three-smiley-faces rating. Sure, it's in a library, but it's packed with teens just hanging with friends, having snacks, playing video games and music, watching movies and working on fun projects in the computer center. There are special events, too. No adults allowed without a teen.

East Library, 5550 N. Union Blvd.
ppld.org

comments(1)

rating

BEST OUTING FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
THE CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO
We thought our zoo was amazing even before it opened its new $8.2 million Rocky Mountain Wild exhibit - a place to schmooze with mountain lions, North American river otters, lynx, bald eagles and grizzlies.

4250 Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Road, 633-9925
cmzoo.org.

comments(0)