Opening in April 2012, this brand-new, high-tech, Smithsonian Affiliate museum brings Colorado history to life through stories and exhibits right in the Golden Triangle Museum District.
The museum holds more than 100 narrow and standard-gauge locomotives and cars. On 'Steam Up Days,' the museum provides narrow gauge train rides.
Railroad buffs can marvel at more than 1,100 railroad artifacts, 20 scale miles of track and hundreds of miniature buildings.
This National Natural Landmark offers admission to some memorable scenery, featuring unusual sandstone rock formations up to 300 feet high silhouetted against the deep blue sky.
Trail Ridge Road, which runs through the park, is the highest paved through-road in the US.
The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve contains the tallest sand dunes in North America, and is one of the most fragile and complex dune systems in the world.
Before the creation of three dams upstream of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, the Gunnison River was as much as five times more powerful than it is today.
Drive the 23-mile Rim Rock Drive through the red-rock canyon, take part in a ranger-led program that explores everything from geology to wildlife or hop on your road bike.
In 2010, scientists at Dinosaur National Monument discovered a new dinosaur, the Abydosaurus mcintoshi.
Famous for its round and square multi-story towers in six prehistoric villages, some of which are easily accessible via short hiking trails, Hovenweep is spread over a 20-mile mesa.
Mesa Verde National Park was the first national park set aside to protect and promote the work of mankind.
Much of today's Red Rocks Amphitheatre was carved out by the Civilian Conservation Corps as part of Roosevelt's New Deal.
INVESCO Field’s opening event was an Eagles concert that occurred on August 11, 2001.
Today a ghost town, Ludlow was the site of a vicious skirmish between the Colorado National Guard and on-strike coal miners. The restored site includes a miners’ tent camp, storyboards and photos.
More than 10,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned at the Granada Relocation Center in Granada, Colorado between 1942-1945.
Be transported to another world made up of unearthly red sandstone formations as you play the Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed course, named one of America’s Top 75 Public Courses by Golf Digest.
35 million years ago, this lakebed teemed with life when volcanic eruptions spread over the area. See the fossilized forms of insects, leaves, seeds and even huge redwood trees were frozen in time.
The Royal Gorge suspension bridge can support an excess of 2 million pounds.
Located right off Lincoln Avenue in downtown Steamboat, Old Town Hot Springs boasts a water slide, soaking pools and lap lanes.
