Ride the inclining Pikes Peak Cog Railway up Pike's Peak
Hike to Lawn Lake (known for the damn breakage causing the alluvial fan)
Buy a book at the Tattered Cover Bookstore
Visit Mesa Verde National Park
Drive the Continental Divide
Ride the Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Run the Bolder Boulder as an adult (I was carried by my mom as a little kid)
See the Denver Planetarium
Tour the big (and small) local breweries including Anheuser-Busch, Miller Coors, New Belgium, and Budweiser
Take Kalynn camping in the Rockies
Is there anything else I'm missing? Let me know in the comments!
TinCup... Yankee Boy Basin... Telluride! Ummm... off I-70 at the exit for Alice... several miles up the road is rock that somebody painted like a pig... I laughed for hours! It's in the trees... on the right side of the road... a mile from anyones driveway... gotta watch for it. Severance... not far from Ft Collins for Rocky Mtn Oysters! They sell them by the TON! Rafting Poudre Canyon in the Spring (now) when the water is roaring! To Be COntinued!
ReplyDeleteOf course... Trail Ridge Road... in three seasons... Winter is out! Black Canyon of the Gunnison... Rafting on the Arkansas... Brown's Canyon to start... or Royal Gorge... Wow! Aspen in late summer... late September, off season it's great! With your child do Santa Claus thing on the way up the back side of Pikes Peak... and then Cripple Creek with it's Victorian buildings, a mile into the earth in the mines and the local wild/tame donkey herd!
ReplyDeleteYou don't want Rocky Mountain Oysters!
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