Perhaps as you’ve walked downtown or stopped at a red light while you were driving you’ve had that moment to wonder exactly who was that person memorialized with a statue in a median, outside a building, in a park or sculpted just gazing west toward Pikes Peak. What did they do? The people in the know are at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum ,where the Cultural Services Department maintains the statues and the hundreds of other public art and also has an interactive “Story of Us.” Also, Peak Radar has an online archive of all the public art, including those statues. For more about those from local history who are paid tribute to with statues: Pikes Peak Range Riders statue at N. Cascade and E. Pikes Peak avenues as seen on Monday, April 27, 2026. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock) PIKES PEAK RANGE RIDERS Two riders are heading west from their forever spot on a rise at the intersection of Cascade and Pikes Peak avenues.…