Creede
Creede Creede is a pocket-sized silver boom town tucked into a narrow canyon at the headwaters of the Rio Grande, where Main Street ends at towering volcanic cliffs. It’s remote, a little quirky and full of Wild West stories, with a world-class theater company to boot. Creede, Colorado: Silver Boom Town on the Rio Grande […]
Ridgway
Ridgway Ridgway is the friendly little crossroads town where Highway 550 meets Highway 62, with the jagged Sneffels Range filling the sky to the south. It’s a movie-set Western town, a railroad town and an outdoor town all at once, and one of the best stops on the San Juan Skyway. Ridgway, Colorado: True Grit […]
Poudre Canyon
Poudre Canyon Poudre Canyon is Northern Colorado’s backyard adventure, a twisting granite canyon carved by the Cache la Poudre River just minutes from Fort Collins. It follows Colorado’s only nationally designated Wild and Scenic River, with whitewater, waterfalls, rock tunnels and trailheads around every bend. Poudre Canyon near Fort Collins, CO The Cache la Poudre […]
McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area
McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area is the red rock wonderland hiding just west of Fruita, with soaring sandstone arches, deep side canyons, a dinosaur quarry you can walk past and miles of the Colorado River. It is one of the best places in the state to feel like you’ve wandered […]
Spanish Peaks
Spanish Peaks The Spanish Peaks are the twin mountains you can see for a hundred miles across southern Colorado, rising about 7,000 feet straight up from the plains west of Walsenburg. Ringed by hundreds of giant rock walls that fan out like the spokes of a wheel, they are one of the most striking natural […]
Denver City and County Building
Denver City and County Building Denver City and County Building is the curving neoclassical city hall at the west end of Civic Center. Every winter it becomes Denver’s most famous holiday light show. For 2026 the lights switch on Friday, November 20, and free light and music shows run nightly except Mondays into January. Denver […]
Strater Hotel
Strater Hotel Strater Hotel has anchored Durango’s Main Avenue since 1887. This red-brick Victorian landmark calls itself the town’s living history museum, and its Diamond Belle Saloon still fills with ragtime piano every night. Strater Hotel in Durango, CO Cleveland pharmacist Henry Strater bet on Durango’s future when it was still a rough mining camp. […]
Quandary Peak
Quandary Peak Quandary Peak is the big white summit south of Breckenridge that many Coloradans pick as their first fourteener. At about 14,265 feet, it offers a straightforward East Ridge route and huge views of the Tenmile and Gore ranges. Once the snow flies it turns into one of the state’s classic winter summit hikes. […]
Genesee Park
Genesee Park Genesee Park is where thousands of I-70 drivers do a double take: a herd of American bison grazing on the hillsides just west of Denver. It is Denver’s first and largest mountain park, and the bison have called it home since 1914. Genesee Park in Golden, CO Denver’s mountain park system began in […]
Mother Cabrini Shrine
Mother Cabrini Shrine Mother Cabrini Shrine sits on a quiet foothills ridge above Golden, where a stone stairway of 373 steps climbs to a 22-foot white statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with all of Denver spread out below. It is free, open every day, and one of the most peaceful viewpoints on the […]