That Rocky Mountain high is still going strong in places like Denver, Aspen, Vail, Telluride, Boulder, and Colorado Springs. But there's also canyon/mesa country, plains, wine country, old frontier towns, and more.

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Clark´s Vista Verde Guest Ranch in ´Fall into North America on these 8 Horse Ranch Holidays´

  ​Vista Verde Guest Ranch, Colorado Located in the town of Clark, three hours or so from Denver, here the months of September and October are reserved for adults and cattle work, when guests accompany wranglers out onto over 16,000 acres of forested land to find and gather the cattle before the winter weather sets in. Leaf peeping with a purpose, you won't regret exploring the mountains against the backdrop of the fiery red quaking aspens. read post  

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Why Denver's dining scene is unforgettable

Wally Gobetz     There are a lot of things to love about Colorado's capital and largest city. Its setting alone is an awe-inspiring one, in the shadow of the soaring Rocky Mountains - your first time seeing the Mile-High City in the distance as you approach is one that you will never forget. And once you're here there's is also a lot to see and do, from attractions and culture to nightlife (a seemingly endless array of bars, pubs, clubs, and music venues) and sports (with local football,…

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Dynamic Denver, an urbane, progressive gem of the USA's West

  Library of Congress The USA's 19th largest city (pop. 693,000, metro area 3.1 million), and at 5,280 feet (1,609 meters) its highest-altitude, has come a long way from its humble beginnings in 1859 as a gold-rush mining town. Sleepy at first, much of the "Mile-High City's" growth didn't pick up steam until the 1890s, with the real boom not kicking in till after World War II. Today, this dynamic, high-tech bastion is a major business, cultural, and sports power which trends young and…

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Cliff House at Pike's Peak in 'Sleeping with History at 7 of the USA's most Historic Hotels'

How would you like to spend a night or more at a hotel once frequented by Clark Gable, Ingrid Berman, Marilyn Monroe and a long list of other Tinseltown luminaries? Or snuggle down under the sheets at a former stagecoach stop along the famous Chisolm Trail which played host to George Custer, the cavalry commander in the Civil and American Indian Wars, and Jesse James, who needs no introduction? If luxury and elegance are your preference, how about the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware,…

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  • Today's Oktoberfest themed Cocktail Hour at The World on Wheels is a massive pub crawl filmed on location in Denver, America's beer capitol. Come along as we drink our way from the Capitol Building to Coors Field and everywhere in between with pics and a video so large we had to split it in two: http://wheelstraveler.blogspot.com
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    The World on Wheels
    An ongoing adventure of travel and living while using a wheelchair. Tim has been disabled from birth. Darryl is his father and caregiver who travel…
  • It's a great place to take kids, they really like the ruins and the stories surrounding them.  The B&B in Cortez is also very family friendly.
  • Darryl, I too enjoyed that post.

    It is on my list, to visit that area with my boys and witness the haunted remains of the Anasazi.

  • Thanks, Sam.  Although I can take credit for the story, the photo is a public domain pic I downloaded from Wikimedia.
  • I just stumbled upon your old Cortez/Mesa Verde blog, Darryl. That ranger tells a good ghost story, and your b/w photo is a prize-winner.
  • A Colorado encore at The World on Wheels, one more article...this time way over at the other end of the state. In the Four Corners area, a visit to Cortez and Mesa Verde National Park: http://tinyurl.com/2bdjlf7
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    The World on Wheels
    An ongoing adventure of travel and living while using a wheelchair. Tim has been disabled from birth. Darryl is his father and caregiver who travel…
  • Thanks...that is quite a bit of a toll.

     

  • That makes sense. Anyway, Darryl, your blog was the most convincing argument I've seen for visiting the Colorado Springs area, even you can't drive that $40 road to Pike's Peak.
  • Hi Sam,

    I couldn't get any more information than that.  I guess they're from people that lived in the area back in the early days before statehood.  There's only a sign saying "Please preserve historic graffiti."

  • Darryl, your Colorado Springs blog is the first thing I saw upon joining this group. I like the details and the photos; very good. What did you mean by "historical graffiti:" signatures of pioneers or of Native Americans?
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