There are many wonderful and fascinating mountains, trails, caves, waterfalls, historical sites
and more in Colorado . Use the fields below to search by zipcode or city name to find
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North Central
Asked once to describe Colorado, Teddy Roosevelt demurred, saying, "The scenery bankrupts the English language." He was probably thinking of the North Central region. Postcards come to life here; landscapes overpower the senses and register somewhere deeper. This is the type of beauty that can't be perceived, only felt
North West
Colorado's Northwest sector is truly a study in contrasts. This land of green mountains and bone-dry desert, glitzy resorts and gritty sagebrush towns, ultramodern petroleum plants and century-old ranches represents nearly everything that Colorado is or ever has been.
South West
Southwest Colorado seems to put visitors under a spell. The area's beauty amazes, transfixing the eye in an endless metamorphosis of colors and shapes. Blue crags jut between grassy meadows and plunge down to roiling white rapids. Brush-stubbled mesas yawn open, creating impossibly deep stone canyons. Hot springs bubble up from sources unseen, steam flaring. Just after sunset, distant ridges turns soft and gray, silhouetted against purple-pink skies.
South Central
Prepare your eyes for a visual feast: South Central Colorado offers up a smorgasbord of pointed peaks, deep canyons, and dazzling wildflowers. Sunlight streams down warm and pure, draping aspens in gold and throwing sharp shadows across the mountain scape. Thunderheads twice the size of a 14er unleash furious lightning-and-hail assaults.
Denver
Even by American standards, Denver is an awfully young city. The gold strike that launched it occurred just 140 years ago. Denver and Colorado didn't join the Union until 1876-the same year Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone and baseball's National League held its first pennant race. By the time the local population reached a million, NASA was on the brink of putting men on the moon.
South East
Although history books usually begin with the 19th-century gold rush to the central Rockies, the real cradle of Colorado is here, on the wind-swept plains of the Southeast. It was here, in the 1540s, that the first gold-seekers arrived--Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his band of conquistadores. It was here, in 1806, that Colorado received its first emissaries from the United States--the expedition led by Zebulon Pike. And it was here, in 1833, that the first American settlement was raised--Bents Old Fort. The fact is, almost everything that has happened in Colorado happened here first.
Listed to the left are the 20 highest peaks in Colorado . There are many other points of interest
including hiking trails, caves, cliffs, forrests, springs, streams and historical sites that a hiker or other visitor
to Colorado may find interesting. Listed below are other points of interest along with the number of these features located in this state.
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