Ouray Hot Springs Pool
Ouray Hot Springs Pool The Ouray Hot Springs Pool sits on Main Street in Ouray, the town known as the Switzerland of America, with soaring San Juan Mountain cliffs on every side. The city-owned pool is fed by natural mineral water that is sulfur-free, so you get the soak without the rotten-egg smell, and its […]
Telluride Gondola
Telluride Gondola The Telluride Gondola links the historic town of Telluride with Mountain Village, and it costs nothing to ride. Opened on Nov. 19, 1996, it is the first and only free public transportation system of its kind in the United States, carrying riders up to 10,540 feet for some of the best views in […]
Mount Elbert
Mount Elbert Mount Elbert is the highest point in Colorado and the tallest peak in the entire Rocky Mountains, rising to 14,440 feet in the Sawatch Range about 12 miles southwest of Leadville. It is also the second-highest summit in the contiguous United States, and because its main trails are steady walk-ups with no technical […]
Independence Pass
Independence Pass Independence Pass carries Colorado Highway 82 over the Continental Divide at 12,095 feet, making it one of the highest paved mountain crossings in the state. The pass sits in the Sawatch Range about 19 miles east of Aspen and 18 miles west of Twin Lakes, and the drive is a summer-and-fall classic, with […]
Chimney Rock National Monument
Chimney Rock National Monument Chimney Rock National Monument protects one of the most remarkable ancestral Puebloan sites in the Southwest, just west of Pagosa Springs. Two sandstone spires, Chimney Rock and Companion Rock, tower over a high mesa where people lived from about A.D. 925 to 1125, and the ruins of a Chacoan Great House […]
Picket Wire Canyonlands
Picket Wire Canyonlands Picket Wire Canyonlands is a remote canyon of the Purgatoire River on the Comanche National Grassland south of La Junta, and it hides one of the most remarkable sights in Colorado: the largest dinosaur tracksite in North America. More than 1,900 footprints in about 130 trackways run across the riverbank rock, joined […]
Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument Dinosaur National Monument straddles the Colorado-Utah line in Colorado’s far northwest corner, protecting more than 210,000 acres of deep river canyons where the Green and Yampa rivers meet. The famous dinosaur bones are on the Utah side, but the Colorado side is where you’ll find the monument’s wildest scenery, from the overlooks […]
Bridal Veil Falls
Bridal Veil Falls Bridal Veil Falls is the tallest free-falling waterfall in Colorado, plunging 365 feet from the cliffs at the head of Telluride’s box canyon. Perched on the brink is a historic hydroelectric power plant that looks almost too dramatic to be real, and the hike or drive up to the base of the […]
Loveland Ski Area
Loveland Ski Area Loveland Ski Area sits right on the Continental Divide, 53 miles west of Denver at the last exit on I-70 before the Eisenhower Tunnel. With 1,800 lift-served acres, a summit at 13,010 feet, a free snowcat ride to the ridge and more than 380 inches of snow in a typical year, this […]
Lory State Park
Lory State Park Lory State Park is Fort Collins’ backyard foothills escape: 2,492 acres of ponderosa pine, grassy valleys and red sandstone hogbacks along the west shore of Horsetooth Reservoir near Bellvue. More than 28 miles of hiking trails lead to waterfalls, meadows and the granite knob of Arthur’s Rock, and mountain bikers, horseback riders […]