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AdAmAn Alley is a creative placemaking initiative that transformed a rundown and underutilized alleyway in the heart of Downtown Colorado Springs. The project celebrates a local mountaineering club’s unique role in the history of the region while exploring the community’s connection to its regional landscape.

Colorado Springs is located at the foot of Pikes Peak (also known by its original Ute name, Tava Kahv, or Sun Mountain). The peak is nicknamed America’s Mountain, but it has held special significance for many diverse groups, from the area’s earliest Indigenous communities to today’s residents, visitors and outdoor adventurers from around the world.

Since 1922, the AdAmAn Club has helped the community further connect with Pikes Peak by presenting a glorious annual fireworks show to ring in the New Year, ignited at the summit and visible throughout the entire region. The mountaineering club exemplifies the community’s spirit of adventure and perseverance in overcoming adversity.

AdAmAn Alley has brought the spirit of the AdAmAn Club and Pikes Peak to the urban environment of Downtown Colorado Springs. The public art installations throughout the alley pay tribute to both the club’s history and the community’s relationship with mountaineering and the natural world. Seven murals (painted and vinyl) attract viewers, encouraging them to enter the alley and explore. A parklet in the southern leg of the alley includes sculptures of regional native plants. Additional project elements employ visual language familiar to outdoor enthusiasts: lettering and sign colors that evoke vintage National Park Service trail signs, blue diamond trail blaze markers, and a rendering of the trail going up Pikes Peak in the alley pavement. The trail is oriented with the trailhead on the eastern entrance of the alley, so visitors have a stunning view of the peak to the west as they follow the Club’s journey to the summit.