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Rocky Mountain National Park

Estes Park, CO · Rocky Mountains$

Rocky Mountain National Park, in northern Colorado, has 77 named peaks over 12,000 feet. Trail Ridge Road crosses it for 48 miles between Estes Park and Grand Lake, eleven of…

Mountains

Maroon Bells

Aspen, CO · Rocky Mountains$

Maroon Peak (14,163 feet) and North Maroon Peak (14,019) stand over Maroon Lake, about 12 miles southwest of Aspen. Their color comes from Maroon Formation mudstone, a weak rock…

Canyons & deserts

Garden of the Gods

Colorado Springs, CO · Rocky MountainsFree

In 1909 Charles Elliott Perkins' children deeded 480 acres of Garden of the Gods to Colorado Springs as "a free and public park forever," and it's still free. The paved Perkins…

Canyons & deserts

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

Montrose, CO · Western Slope, Colorado$

The walls of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison drop as much as 2,722 feet and stand so close together that parts of the floor see only minutes of sun a day. From the South Rim's…

Canyons & deserts

Great Sand Dunes National Park

Mosca, CO · San Luis Valley, Colorado$

Medano Creek runs across the foot of Great Sand Dunes only in spring and early summer, when snowmelt spreads it into a wide, beachy stream people wade in. Behind it are the…

Canyons & deserts

Mesa Verde National Park

Cortez, CO · Four Corners, Southwest Colorado

Ancestral Pueblo people built most of the roughly 600 cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde, in southwest Colorado, between 1180 and 1280 CE. Tickets for the ranger-led tours into the…

Attractions

Telluride

Telluride, CO · San Juan MountainsFree

Telluride sits at the dead-end of a glacial box canyon, a former silver-mining camp boxed in on three sides by 13,000-foot San Juan peaks with Bridal Veil Falls, Colorado's…

Mountains

Million Dollar Highway

Ouray to Silverton, CO · San Juan Mountains

The twelve miles of US 550 south of Ouray climb the Uncompahgre Gorge to the 11,018-foot summit of Red Mountain Pass, hugging cliffs carved straight into the rock with no…

Mountains

Pikes Peak

Colorado Springs, CO · Front Range$$

Rising 14,115 feet over Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak is the fourteener that put a phrase in everyone's mouth: Katharine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful after taking in the…

Attractions

Aspen

Aspen, CO · Aspen / Roaring Fork

Aspen's four ski mountains cover more than 5,700 acres around a town 7,908 feet up in Colorado's upper Roaring Fork Valley. The Silver Queen Gondola runs up Aspen Mountain to the…

Mountains

Mount Blue Sky

Idaho Springs, CO · Front Range

The road up Mount Blue Sky, called Mount Evans until 2023, climbs more than 7,000 feet in 28 miles from Idaho Springs. It ends at 14,130 feet, a short, steep walk below the…

Attractions

Ouray

Ouray, CO · San Juan MountainsFree

Ouray's main street is a row of 1880s mining-boom buildings, the Wright Opera House and the Beaumont Hotel among them, with red-rock walls climbing straight up behind the roofs…

Mountains

San Juan Skyway

Durango, CO · San Juan Mountains

The San Juan Skyway loops 236 miles from Durango through the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, about six hours of driving by CDOT's count. US 550 takes the east side over…

Mountains

Independence Pass

Aspen, CO · Aspen / Roaring Fork

Independence Pass carries Colorado 82 over the Continental Divide at 12,095 feet, between Aspen and Twin Lakes. CDOT usually opens it the Thursday before Memorial Day and closes…

Canyons & deserts

Colorado National Monument

Fruita, CO · Grand Valley, Western Colorado$

Colorado National Monument sits above the Grand Valley, where Wingate sandstone cliffs drop into red canyons. Rim Rock Drive runs 23 paved miles between the Fruita and Grand…