Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site protects a quiet bend of Big Sandy Creek on Colorado’s eastern plains where, on November 29, 1864, U.S. volunteer troops attacked a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho village. Visiting is not light-hearted, but it is one of the most important and moving places in […]
San Luis
San Luis San Luis is Colorado’s oldest town, a quiet adobe village in the southern San Luis Valley founded on April 5, 1851. Climb the shrine trail on the mesa above town, walk the old plaza and you’ll feel a living Hispano heritage that’s older than the state itself. San Luis, Colorado’s Oldest Town San […]
Ghost Town Museum
Ghost Town Museum Ghost Town Museum in Colorado Springs is a whole Wild West town tucked indoors: wooden boardwalks, a saloon, a general store, a livery stable full of stagecoaches and buggies, all built from structures and artifacts rescued from the Pikes Peak region. And no, it isn’t haunted. Ghost Town Museum in Colorado Springs, […]
Dinosaur Journey Museum
Dinosaur Journey Museum Dinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita is where western Colorado’s deep past comes roaring back, with real fossils dug from nearby rock, life-size skeletons, robotic dinosaurs and a lab where you can watch paleontologists at work. It’s a must for families on I-70 and anyone who has ever loved a Triceratops. Dinosaur Journey […]
Benson Sculpture Garden
Benson Sculpture Garden Benson Sculpture Garden is Loveland’s open-air art museum: a leafy 10-acre park where roughly 190 sculptures stand among lawns, ponds and shade trees, with the foothills on the horizon. It’s free, it never closes, and it’s one of the most rewarding short stops on the Front Range. Benson Sculpture Garden in Loveland, […]
Mount of the Holy Cross
Mount of the Holy Cross Mount of the Holy Cross is the 14,005-foot peak in the northern Sawatch Range whose northeast face holds a giant cross of snow, formed by a vertical couloir and a horizontal ledge. Hidden behind other mountains, it became a national sensation when photographer William Henry Jackson captured it in 1873. […]
Cañon City
Cañon City Cañon City is a sunny river town on the Arkansas River where you can drive a roller-coaster ridge road built by prisoners, tour a real cell house and walk through tunnels blasted into granite, all before lunch. It’s also the front door to the Royal Gorge. Cañon City, Colorado: Skyline Drive & Prison […]
Victor
Victor Victor calls itself the City of Gold Mines, and one look at the headframes crowning the hills around town shows why. Perched at nearly 10,000 feet on the southwest side of Pikes Peak, this well-preserved gold rush town is a quieter, quirkier counterpart to neighboring Cripple Creek. Victor, Colorado: City of Gold Mines Near […]
Trinidad
Trinidad Trinidad is a handsome old Santa Fe Trail town on Colorado’s southern border, where brick streets climb toward the flat-topped silhouette of Fishers Peak. Halfway between Denver and Santa Fe on I-25, it rewards anyone who takes the exit with history, art and big open country. Trinidad, Colorado: Santa Fe Trail Town Under Fishers […]
Glenwood Canyon
Glenwood Canyon Glenwood Canyon is the dramatic gorge where the Colorado River has carved through layers of rock just east of Glenwood Springs, leaving walls that tower as high as 1,300 feet. Millions see it from I-70 every year, but the best way to experience it is to pull off, walk the riverside path and […]