Things to Do in Colorado

Colorado is the highest state in America — the only one entirely above 3,300 feet, with 58 peaks over fourteen thousand, more than any state in the country. But altitude is just the headline. It acts like three states: the Front Range, where the plains slam into the mountains and almost everyone lives; the High Rockies, the alpine heart of ski towns, hot springs, and gold-rush ghosts; and the Western Slope and south, the red-rock canyon country, the wine and peach valleys, the tallest sand dunes on the continent, and the thousand-year-old cliff cities of Mesa Verde. These are the picks worth driving the whole vertical mile for — plains to peaks to red rock.

Regions: Front Range · High Rockies · Western Slope & South