Bookstores in Manitou Springs
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Manitou Springs, Colorado gives you 5 to judge by. That's 5 bookshops mapped around Manitou Springs, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Staff picks shelves are the fastest way to read a shop's personality.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Manitou Springs (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Tealeaf Books & Music and Bookman's, plus Westside Stories. If a bookshop's missing from Manitou Springs's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Manitou Springs bookstore lineup
5 in Manitou Springs, plus 10 more around Manitou Springs below:
Tealeaf Books & Music
Bookstore0.3 km from Manitou Springs
Tealeaf Books & Music — Bookstore on 742 Manitou Avenue.
742 Manitou Avenue
Bookman's
Bookstore3.3 km from Manitou Springs
Bookman's — Bookstore.
Westside Stories
Bookstore7.1 km from Manitou Springs
Westside Stories — Bookstore, found on 631 West Colorado Avenue in Colorado Springs. Also worth knowing about Westside Stories: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 11:00-18:00; Fr-Sa 10:00-19:00; Su 12:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
631 West Colorado Avenue, Colorado Springs, 80905
Hours: Mo-Th 11:00-18:00; Fr-Sa 10:00-19:00; Su 12:00-17:00
Phone: +1-719-636-0055
Poor Richard's Books and Gifts
Bookstore8.0 km from Manitou SpringsRun by Poor Richard's Complex
Poor Richard's Books and Gifts is Bookstore run by Poor Richard's Complex on 320 North Tejon Street, Colorado Springs. Poor Richard's Books and Gifts also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 09:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
320 North Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, 80903
Hours: 09:00-20:00
Phone: +1-719-578-0012
Escape Velocity Comics & Graphic Novels
Bookstore8.0 km from Manitou Springs
Escape Velocity Comics & Graphic Novels — Bookstore on 19 East Bijou Street. Also worth knowing about Escape Velocity Comics & Graphic Novels: the map lists its hours as Tu 00:00-15:30; We-Sa 11:00-18:00; Su-Mo 11:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
19 East Bijou Street, 80903
Hours: Tu 00:00-15:30; We-Sa 11:00-18:00; Su-Mo 11:00-16:00
Phone: +1-719-578-8847
What the map tells us about bookstores in Manitou Springs
3 of the 5 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
3 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
Most of the bookstores in Manitou Springs list a phone number. Useful for checking whether a specific title is in stock before you visit.
The Manitou Springs bookstore crawl
Making a day of it in Manitou Springs? Work this order: Tealeaf Books & Music on 742 Manitou Avenue, Bookman's, Westside Stories on 631 West Colorado Avenue, Poor Richard's Books and Gifts on 320 North Tejon Street, and Escape Velocity Comics & Graphic Novels on 19 East Bijou Street. That's the bookstore crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.
Bookstore tips for Manitou Springs
The regulars' playbook for Manitou Springs's bookshops:
- Don't overlook the classics wall at Tealeaf Books & Music. Every shop has one. Cheap editions of the books everyone claims to have read — your chance to actually read them.
- Don't judge by the window display at Bookman's. The front table is marketing. The back shelves are the shop's real taste. Walk the whole floor.
- Ask about ordering. Independent shops will order anything in print, often in a day or two. No need to default to the big online retailer.
- Check the events board. Book clubs, writing groups, story times — bookshops are community centres that happen to sell books.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Manitou Springs — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Manitou Springs can take a while to appear. The 5 above are only as current as the community map. A bookstore that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.
We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.
If you run one of the 5 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Worth the trip: more bookstores around Manitou Springs
10 more within about 40 km of Manitou Springs, nearest first:
University Book Store
Bookstore10.5 km from Manitou SpringsRun by University of Colorado Colorado Springs
University Book Store is Bookstore run by University of Colorado Colorado Springs. University Book Store also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 08:00-17:00; Sa 10:00-16:00.
Colorado Springs, 80918
Hours: Mo-Fr 08:00-17:00; Sa 10:00-16:00
$2 Buck Books
Bookstore12.6 km from Manitou Springs
$2 Buck Books is Bookstore on 5172 North Academy Boulevard. $2 Buck Books also notes on the map: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
5172 North Academy Boulevard
Phone: +1-719-260-4453
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore13.5 km from Manitou Springs
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 795 Citadel Drive East in Colorado Springs. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: the map lists its hours as Su 11:00-19:00; Mo-Th 10:00-20:00; Fr-Sa 09:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
795 Citadel Drive East, Colorado Springs, 80909
Hours: Su 11:00-19:00; Mo-Th 10:00-20:00; Fr-Sa 09:00-20:00
Phone: +1-719-637-8282
Vans Comics
Bookstore13.6 km from Manitou Springs
Vans Comics — Bookstore.
Hooked on Books and Gifts
Bookstore13.7 km from Manitou Springs
Hooked on Books and Gifts — Bookstore.
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore13.8 km from Manitou Springs
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 1565 Briargate Boulevard in Colorado Springs. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 09:00-20:00; Fr-Sa 09:00-22:00; Su 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1565 Briargate Boulevard, Colorado Springs, 80920
Hours: Mo-Th 09:00-20:00; Fr-Sa 09:00-22:00; Su 10:00-19:00
Phone: +1-719266-9960
Heroes and Dragons
Bookstore14.7 km from Manitou Springs
Heroes and Dragons — Bookstore.
Young Bookworms
Bookstore16.2 km from Manitou Springs
Young Bookworms — Bookstore, found on 3604 Hartsel Drive in Colorado Springs.
3604 Hartsel Drive, Colorado Springs, 80920
Barnes & Noble
Bookstore17.2 km from Manitou Springs
Barnes & Noble — Bookstore, found on 3173 Cinema Point in Colorado Springs. Also worth knowing about Barnes & Noble: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-21:00; Su 10:00-19:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
3173 Cinema Point, Colorado Springs, 80922
Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-21:00; Su 10:00-19:00
Phone: +1-719-618-2902
Covered Treasures Bookstore
Bookstore26.3 km from Manitou Springs
Covered Treasures Bookstore is Bookstore on 105 2nd Street, Monument. Covered Treasures Bookstore also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as 09:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
105 2nd Street, Monument, 80132
Hours: 09:00-17:00
Phone: +1-719-481-2665
Bookstore listings for Manitou Springs: 5 in Manitou Springs and 10 more nearby mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.