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This classic back-of-the-peak wander is great for summer days. Due west of Colorado Springs, on the western slope of Pikes Peak. To get there: Take U.S. Highway 24 west to Divide; turn left (south) on Colorado Highway 67. Drive 4.5 miles to the road to the Crags (FR 383), just past the entrance to Mueller State…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Caretakers Neal and Teresa Taylor love visitors at Barr Camp, the rustic camp at 10,200 feet on Pikes Peak. It’s a long distance to get there, but hikers are rewarded with a friendly greeting, a…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This classic back-of-the-peak wander is great for summer days. Due west of Colorado Springs, on the western slope of Pikes Peak. To get there: Take U.S. Highway 24 west to Divide; turn left (south) on Colorado…

Crested Butte is a mountain biking paradise, and this trail shows why. It combines stunning mountain scenery, amazing singletrack and the chance to bomb through fields of wildflowers as high as your head. This is the most famous of Crested Butte’s many trails. Ride it and you’ll see why it has been rated the nation’s…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There are parts of Mueller State Park that are as busy a a shopping mall on a rainy weekend. And then there are part of Mueller that are like this: silent woods, secluded spots for sitting…

For many outdoor enthusiasts, the San Juan Mountains represent Colorado at its finest. Rugged and remote, the state’s largest unbroken mountain range is a peak-bagger’s paradise, with 14 of the state’s 54 fourteeners, mountains above 14,000 feet. Many require long backpack trips, jarring drives up rough four-wheel-drive roads or frightening climbs with jaw-dropping exposure. Handies…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sometimes, a trail with a magical name can disappoint. This one delivers what it promises. Although it begins at one of the park’s busiest trail junctions, it takes hikers into hidden reaches of this majestic…

Although it’s Colorado’s tallest peak at 14, 433 feet, Mount Elbert is by no means the most difficult to climb. In fact, with its long, broad ridges , it’s one of the easier fourteeners to tackle – “easy” being a relative term. (No climb at this oxygen-think altitude is ever easy.) To get there: Lakeview Campground access:…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hanging Lake is one of the state’s most popular trails, largely because it’s easily accessible from Interstate 70. In past summers, more than 100,000 people have hiked it. The reason? At the top is a…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than 100 years ago, this place was hopping. Five hundred gold mines were still being worked. More than 50,000 people lived in or near this valley. Today, the only gold visible in this now-abandoned…