31. Cj Kard
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 634-3339
Address: 214 N. Tejon St.
Description: This downtown store is always fun to enter. The more than 20-year-old shop specializes in cards and stationery, but they also carry some gift and home items, books, and knickknacks. The birthday, anniversary, thank you, and blank cards are the usual Far Side variety up to handmade pieces of art. They also offer custom invitations. Open 7 days a week.
32. Garden Of The Gods Trading Post
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 685-9045, (800) 874-4515
Description: Built to resemble a Pueblo Indian home, this iconic store is a bit like walking into the past. A little kitschy, but it feels appropriate.For souvenir hunters, this is pretty close to a gold mine. The trading post carries almost any item you can think of with the name “Colorado” imprinted on it, T-shirts, wind chimes, aspen leaf jewelry and art, Minnetonka moccasins, and about 38,000 other choices. The post also carries art from Colorado artists, American Indian jewelry, baskets, sand painting, Navajo rugs, and Pueblo pottery.An outside cafe specializes in buffalo burgers, which are good but pale in comparison to the amazing view of the rocks in the park. Open 7 days a week.
33. Rich Designs
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 475-1200, (800) 369-6909
Address: 1731 Mt. Washington Ave.
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Description: It’s hard to know how to classify Rich Designs, other than to say this longtime Colorado Springs gallery/florist/interior design/home furnishings/gift boutique is one of the town’s true gems. The store is more than 6,000 square feet of unusual, beautiful, eclectic goods painstakingly arranged in various home tableaus. This is not the art of shopping, this is shopping as art. The Holiday Spectacular Open House, usually every November, is not to be missed. They also hold an Art of Living event in September, benefitting the local hospice. Open Tues through Sat.
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Address: 1 Lake Ave.
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Address: 120 N. Tejon St.
36. Rick’S
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 632-8491
Address: 1827 W. Unitah St.
Description: Rick’s has been a Colorado Springs staple for about half a century. The store rambles down multiple aisles and into side buildings, filled with necessities like hoses—about 20 varieties—to treasures like Living Geeky yard art. And then there are the acres of outside grounds, down the hill. Rick’s is the kind of garden store where you feel like getting your hands dirty. Closed Sun.
37. Spencer’S Lawn And Garden Centers
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 632-2788
Address: 1430 S. Tejon St.
Description: Spencer’s main store is located on the south end of town, and it’s been a tried-and-true Colorado Springs gardening resource for years. The staff is always available to help you determine what will work best in your yard, and they’re knowledgeable about this tricky Colorado climate. The store also carries a number of garden tools, supplies, and fun decorations. They are also one of the only places in town where you can get a large Christmas tree. Open 7 days a week. A second Spencer’s location is at 4720 Center Valley Dr. in Fountain (719-392-2726).
38. Summerland Gardens
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 477-0267
Address: 124 E. Cheyenne Rd.
Description: Summerland is a garden shop—and more. The retail store is so unique and packed with such artistic knickknacks, paintings, and other funky little things, it’s a strong gift shop in its own right. Summerland is cheerful, bright, funky, and eclectic. Locals and visitors alike get lost in this cool little establishment, set in a house that has been home to many iconic businesses over the years. Open 7 days a week.
39. Little Richard’S Toy Store
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 578-5848
Address: 324 N. Tejon St.
Description: Little Richard’s Toy Store is part of a four-store, Poor Richard’s complex in north downtown. It’s packed full of unique play things for kids of all ages—but mainly for the little guys. The specialty of the store is interactive, imagination-stirring toys that do more than entertain. The smallish space is crammed full of action toys, puzzles, plush puppets, mobiles, games, costumes for an afternoon of dress up, mobiles, and more. It would take a hard heart to walk out without at least something for the little person in your life. Open 7 days a week.
40. Mountain Moppets
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 633-3473
Address: 2532 W. Colorado Ave.
Description: This cute, almost 30-year-old store in Old Colorado City is a favorite of grandparents, aunts, family friends . . . anyone looking for a children’s gift. Parents like it too, especially the middle-rack, where out-of-season clothing is marked on sale. The quality clothing is stylish and sturdy, the kind that lasts and gets passed on to each sibling and then to others as well. They carry everything from cloth coats to fancy swimwear for infants on up to elementary grades. They also carry fun accessories like hair bows and headbands, dress-up clothes, and designer footwear. Open 7 days a week.
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Address: 1885 Briargate Pkwy.
44. William Kurtz Limited
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 635-2126
Address: 10 E. Pikes Peak Ave.
Description: This men’s specialty store, opened in 1995 by owner Bill Kurtz, is tucked into a quaint space in a historic building downtown. It offers casual to dressy clothing of the Tommy Bahama, Tallia, Thomas Dean variety. The service is understated but helpful, and they run a trunk show for women looking to buy their men gifts during the holiday season. They also carry a few accessories, including Cole Haan shoes. Open Mon through Sat.
45. Graner Music
City: Colorado Springs, CO
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (719) 574-2001
Address: 4460 Barnes Rd.
Description: Graner is a hopping place. With a north location as well as the Barnes Road store, Graner has kids and adults lined up for lessons at almost all hours. They are a big supplier of the band and orchestra market, lately serving even communities north of Colorado Springs. They offer a full-service repair shop, a loaner program for instruments in the repair shop, new instruments of all kinds, and sheet music and books. Closed Sun.