Travel Information for Colorado Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Colorado attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Colorado state park, this is where you will find it.
COLORADO ranks first among all states in skiable acres and is home to nearly 50 natural hot springs; it's also great place for nearly every other outdoor winter activity like inner tubing, snowshoeing, ice skating, snowboarding, ice fishing, horse-drawn sleigh rides and snowball fights; Colorado's dude and guest ranches offer a true western style vacation with a choice of activities like horseback riding, fishing, hiking, hearty cookouts, gold panning and hay rides. You can golf at one of Colorado's many 18-hole courses. Colorado offers a variety of historical and cultural forays.
DENVER is home to the nation's second largest arts complex, a four-square block center known as the PLEX. and the Colorado supplies a seemingly endless variety of shopping from quaint boutiques and to factory outlet malls, Neiman Marcus to Native American trading posts, farmers' markets to upscale galleries, antique shops to bookstores.
From ANTON ITO the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad crisscrosses 64 miles along the mountainous Colorado/New Mexico border.
Once a small Victorian mining town, ASPEN is now a center for skiing and culture; visitors can discover Aspen’s history with the costumed guides of the Aspen Historical Society.
Nestled in the foothills where the rolling plains meet the Colorado Rocky Mountains, BOULDER offers attractions such as the Mapleton Historic District, which has homes dating back to the late 1800s, the Leanin' Tree Museum of Western Art with the largest privately held collection of western art in the country, and the Collage Children's Museum; the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse was handcrafted by over 40 Tajik artisans, and visitors can see the tea-making process at Celestial Seasonings Tea Company; an array of colorful western characters such as the infamous gunslinger, Tom Horn, are buried at Columbia Cemetery.
The Barney Ford Museum in the mountain resort of BRECKENRIDGE honors the historical legacy left by Barney Ford, a slave who escaped and later became a black civil rights pioneer and prominent entrepreneur.
The Old Town of BURLINGTON is rich in the history of the Eastern Plains and at the county fairgrounds is the Kit Carson County Carousel.
In CANON CITY the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park is the world’s highest suspension bridge, spanning the Arkansas River and Colorado’s spectacular Royal Gorge at a height of 1,053 feet; visitors can take the Royal Gorge Route train through the “Grand Canyon of the Arkansas” or the Gold Belt Tour which covers the old mining towns; the Buckskin Joe Frontier Town and Railway combines Colorado history and family entertainment.
At COLORADO SPRINGS the Garden of the Gods offers towering sandstone formations, and the historic Rock Ledge Ranch is a living history museum; visitors can tour the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy, ride the mountain elevator to the top of Seven Falls, or explore Old Colorado City, the city’s historic district; the Frontier Pathways takes visitors past vintage ranches and farmsteads; nearby at Cripple Creek there are tours at Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine.
At CORTEZ the Four Corners Monument has a foot in Colorado, the other in New Mexico, a hand in Arizona, the other in Utah; Yucca House National Monument is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan surface site while Hovenweep National Monument has six ancestral pueblo sites.
At CREEDE he colorful old mining camps of the Silver Thread offer a tour of history.
Located in a spectacular setting at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, DENVER offers an array of museum attractions including Buffalo Bill’s Grave & Museum, the final resting spot of the famous showman and frontier scout, the Black American West Museum & Heritage Center which tells the story of African American working cowboys, the Colorado History Museum, Colorado Railroad Museum, a replica of an 1880-style depot, Denver Art Museum, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum with 30 historic air and space vehicles; other Denver attractions are the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, U.S. Mint, the Butterfly Pavilion & Insect Center, and Colorado’s Ocean Journey, an aquarium with two distinct river journeys to the Pacific Ocean; for the adults there are tours of two breweries at Anheuser-Busch Coors; for children there are the Six Flags Elitch Gardens Theme Park and Water World, and with the outdoors in mind, there are the Dinosaur Ridge where the world’s first large dinosaur bones were discovered, the Red Rocks Amphitheater, and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT near Dinosaur is the former stomping ground of the stegosaurus and has the largest collection of Jurassic Period dinosaur fossils ever found.
At DOLORES much of the past of Southwest Colorado's 'Ancient Ones' (Anasazi in the Navajo Indian language) is housed inside the Anasazi Heritage Center; the Trails of the Ancients is a 114-mile route across the broken, arid terrain of the former Anasazi civilization and is laden with cliff dwellings, rock art and pottery shards.
The DURANGO & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is a turn-of-the century steam-powered railroad through the scenic San Juan Mountains; visitors can also travel through Victorian towns, prehistoric ruins and 5-million acres of undisturbed national forest on the San Juan Skyway.
ESTES PARK is located in the shadow of the Rocky Mountain National Park with over 250,000 acres of wilderness area.
Spectacular remnants of the earth's prehistoric life with stone impressions of insects, reptiles, plants and fish formed millions of years ago are found at FLORISSANT FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT.
The Colorado National Monument FRUITA has towering red sandstone monoliths, deep, sheer-walled canyons, and a variety of wildlife.
Among the attractions in the mountain spa community of GLENWOOD SPRINGS is Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park which takes visitors on the new Iron Mountain Tramway high up the Rocky Mountains and the Frontier Historical Museum.
Visitors can bike through the Colorado National Monument or dig for dinosaur fossils at GRAND JUNCTION; those less active can spend a day at the many vineyards.
GREELEY's unique past comes to life at Centennial Village Museum's 30 architectural structures ranging from homesteader's huts to elegant Victorian homes.
The original Bent’s Old Fort at LA JUNTA was built in 1833 to trade with plains Indians and trappers.
From LEADVILLE the route of the Leadville & Southern Railroad is through a mountain valley while the Top of the Rockies Byway takes visitors past old mines, abandoned railroad beds and ghost towns.
At MANCOS prehistoric and modern Indian culture merge in the unique archaeological Mesa Verde National Park which is among the world’s top 50 travel destinations.
No other canyon in North America combines the narrow opening, sheer walls, and startling depths offered by the Black Canyon of the Gunnison at MONTROSE; the Uncompahgre National Forest has views, hunting and wildlife watching.
North America's tallest dunes rise over 700 feet high against the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains at Great Sand Dunes National Preserve at MOSCA.
The San Juan Skyway in OURAY loops over the San Juan Mountains and through ruins of Indian country and historic mining towns.
PIKES PEAK COUNTRY is home to 29 natural and man-made attractions located in and around Colorado Springs including the Manitou Springs attractions Manitou Cliff Dwelling Museum and the Cave of the Winds.
The Historic Arkansas Riverwalk is a 26-acre waterfront park located in the heart of historic downtown PUEBLO with boats, entertainment and an historic shopping district.
The History Museum in TRINIDAD includes the Santa Fe Trail Museum, Baca House, Bloom Mansion, Historic Gardens and Bookstore; on a clear spring day on the Santa Fe Trail a sharp observer can still discern the wagon-wheel ruts of the Santa Fe Trail wending their way across the prairie.
The Colorado Ski Museum & Hall of Fame in VAIL is the "keeper" of Colorado’s great skiing heritage and history.
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