Colorado

Hiking In Ouray, Colorado
Outdoor Recreation Is Big Around the Little Town of Ouray
Spending our vacations with packs on our backs is not unusual for Steve and me. In fact, that's how we spent our honeymoon, when we went for a five-day hike in the Grand Canyon, where we'd met a few years earlier. Several months after our wedding, we again hoisted our backpacks for a week-long trek in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Since then, we've enjoyed many days of trail-walking and camping from New England to the Southwest. And our latest vacation was no exception. We ...

Colorado Outdoors
10 Best Places to Visit In Colorado
Some of the best Day Trips, Camping Trips, Hiking in Colorado. Including Garden of the Gods, Castlewood Park, Waterton Canyon, Rocky Mountain National Park, Lands End, Rifle Gap State Park, Rifle Falls, and Great Sand Dunes National Park. Descriptions include pictures and why these parks are so amazing! Rocky Mountain National Park Camping photo and Great Sand Dunes National Park video provided by National Parks websites. All other photos were taken by me! Hope you enjoy them as much as I do...

Brighton Colorado
Your Essential Directory and Guide to Beautiful Brighton, Colorado
Brighton is growing by leaps and bounds! Originally a very small farming community, the town evolved in to a major sugar beet growing and processing hub for the country. Today, the city is modern and vibrant but still in touch with its rural roots.

Travel Threads: American West
Colorado Rockies and Sagebrush Country
When I wasn't paddling the rivers of eastern Canada, I was usually on the back of a horse out west. The big skies, looming mountains, dark forests and lonely plains of the American West were dramatic indeed for someone raised at the edge of Amish country, where hedgerows, fields, farmhouses and country lanes were small and neat as Tolkien's Shire, and distances were measured in minutes not miles. Patches utterly fail to represent the majesty of the West, and I begin to understand why ...

Castle Rock Colorado Housing Market Report
Castle Rock Colorado Real Estate Market Report
Castle Rock Colorado is a suburb of Denver and in 2006 was voted one of the best suburbs to live in by Businessweek. Here is a report of the recent real estate market values as well as some housing and demographic statistics and information for Castle Rock.

Bennett Colorado
Little Town on The High Plains
Sitting just a few miles east of the edges of the Denver metro area, Bennett remains true to its rural roots. Home to Longhopes Donkey Shelter, this small town is a jewel on the Eastern Colorado plains.

Ft. Lupton Colorado
Colorado at It's Rural Best
Ft. Lupton is a picturesque town north of Denver. Surrounded by sugar beet fields, the town demonstrates what's best about rural living in Colorado.

Things to do in Colorado
The Centennial State
Rocky mountain high

Learning About Colorado
Are you looking for fun worksheets, books, and activity ideas for teaching and/or learning about Colorado? Included are links to wonderful worksheets, book suggestions for children, YouTube videos, DVD and CD recommendations, and more -- all related to the state of Colorado! Whether you're a school teacher, homeschooling parent, involved parent, librarian, lifelong learner, or a student searching for ideas and books on Colorado, look no further! (Photo Credit: citypictures.org)

Colorado Fall 2008
These are pictures from Gary's 2008 trip to Colorado in fall of 2008. The brilliant yellow aspen trees make the mountains come alive in September. Check the weather before you go, it can get down to freezing even in August in the higher elevations !