Sloan’s Lake Park
Sloan’s Lake Park Sloan’s Lake Park wraps around Denver’s largest lake, where joggers, paddlers and picnickers share 177 acres of water framed by the downtown skyline on one side and the Front Range sunset on the other. Sloan’s Lake Park in Denver, CO The lake was born by accident. According to local legend told by […]
Yankee Boy Basin
Yankee Boy Basin Yankee Boy Basin is the San Juan Mountains at full volume: a high, green valley above Ouray where waterfalls spill through fields of wildflowers beneath Mount Sneffels and a ring of jagged peaks. Yankee Boy Basin near Ouray, CO The basin sits in the Uncompahgre National Forest, cradled by Potosi Peak, Teakettle […]
Lake Pueblo State Park
Lake Pueblo State Park Lake Pueblo State Park is southern Colorado’s big-water playground: more than 4,600 surface acres of reservoir, 60 miles of shoreline and low-elevation sunshine that keeps boating, fishing and camping going nearly all year. Lake Pueblo State Park in Pueblo, CO The reservoir stretches about 11 miles along the Arkansas River just […]
Evergreen Lake
Evergreen Lake Evergreen Lake is the foothills postcard you have seen on holiday cards: a 55-acre mountain lake ringed by pines in Evergreen, with paddleboards and kayaks in summer and one of the biggest groomed outdoor ice rinks around in winter. Evergreen Lake in Evergreen, CO The lake sits in Dedisse Park, which is owned […]
Loveland Pass
Loveland Pass Loveland Pass lifts U.S. Highway 6 over the Continental Divide at 11,990 feet, a switchbacking high-alpine drive where tundra ridges, snowfields and a famous summit sign make one of the most photographed pullouts in Colorado. Loveland Pass on the Continental Divide, CO Most travelers zip under the Divide through the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels […]
Fairplay
Fairplay Fairplay sits in the wide, high basin of South Park, a no-nonsense mining town on Highway 9 whose pride is South Park City: 44 authentic buildings and some 60,000 artifacts that recreate a Colorado boom town between 1860 and 1900. Fairplay, Colorado: South Park City Museum Gold was found in South Park in 1859, […]
Guanella Pass
Guanella Pass Guanella Pass is a paved high-country shortcut between two Victorian towns, cresting at 11,669 feet on a saddle of tundra where Mount Bierstadt, the Sawtooth and Mount Blue Sky line up above willow wetlands and alpine lakes. Guanella Pass Scenic Byway near Georgetown, CO The Guanella Pass Scenic Byway runs about 22 to […]
Breckenridge
Breckenridge Breckenridge is more than a ski resort: it is an 1859 gold-rush town whose Victorian Main Street, hidden log cabins and Blue River boardwalk still tell the story of a mining camp that grew into one of Colorado’s most walkable mountain downtowns. Breckenridge, Colorado: Historic Mining Town Prospectors founded Breckenridge in 1859 during the […]
Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Springs Steamboat Springs is a real ranch town that learned to ski: a bubbling spring that early trappers swore sounded like a steamboat, a historic Lincoln Avenue downtown, and Howelsen Hill—Colorado’s oldest continuously operating ski area—rising straight out of the Yampa River corridor. Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Howelsen Hill & the Yampa French trappers named […]
Manitou Springs
Manitou Springs Manitou Springs bubbles at the foot of Pikes Peak: eight free mineral drinking springs, a steep historic downtown packed into a few walkable blocks, and red-rock hills that spill straight into Garden of the Gods. Manitou Springs, Colorado: Eight Mineral Springs Long before it became a Victorian resort, this valley was a gathering […]