Colorado

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  July 9, 2025

  Lake City, Lake Lake City B

  Peak Adventuring in the San Juans Thursday This was our first time back to Lake City since we did our southwest Colorado roadtrip in 2020. We had big plans for the 4th, and we’d been looking forward to this weekend for months! I was especially excited to finally UTV the Alpine Loop, which had been…
• July 4, 2017

  Three beautiful mountain towns (Ouray, Telluride, Crested Butte)

  Ouray – aka the Switzerland of America, is known for adventure sports in the summer and skiing in the winter. It was a beautiful town in a mountain valley, and we stayed at a campground outside of town. The first night we got there, we went to the visitor center and got information about the…

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  July 1, 2017

  Maroon Bells/Black Canyon of the Gunnison 

  For those who don’t know, Maroon Bells is probably “the” hike people think of when Colorado is mentioned. (But who knows, I don’t live here – yet). The trailhead is located a few miles outside of Aspen. In order to access it, you can drive your car to the trailhead either before 8am or after…
• June 28, 2017

  Glenwood Springs 

  : (proper noun) amazing, Adventure town, must see. The first minute we got there, it was awesome. We got to Ami’s Acres campground in the afternoon and after talking to the owner for a few minutes about which hot springs he recommended, he offered us an upgrade from our tent site to a cabin. No…
• June 28, 2017

  Stop #1: Rocky Mountain NP

  Day 1: Fort Collins. Our first city in Colorado, we stopped here for some breweries before driving to Rocky Mountain. The big letdown was that New Belgium brewery was closed, a huge, funky looking massive beer haven. Oh well, we went to another good one we had on our list – Odell’s! We split some…