Colorado Travel Regions
Getting to know Colorado is as easy as getting to know our seven distinct and diverse regions. Find all you need to know about the seven regions below.
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Even by American standards, Denver is a 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 b . . .
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Asked once to describe Colorado, Teddy Roosevelt demurred, saying, "The scenery bankrupts the English language." He was probably thinking of the Front Range region. Postcards come to life here; landscapes overpower the sen . . .
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Northeastern Colorado often catches visitors by surprise with its wide-open grasslands and seas of golden wheat - a land of infinite flats. Locals call it "Colorado's Outback," or "The Other Colorado" in proud celebration of the area's pioneer t . . .
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From tasting wine in Colorado's wine country to sipping a hot cocoa with views of snow-capped peaks, the Northwest Region of the state is a place meant for savoring life's finer things. Here, travelers will find an abundance of activities year-round. In fact, life- . . .
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Prepare your eyes for a visual feast: South Central Colorado offers up a smorgasbord of pointed peaks, deep canyons and dazzling wildflowers. Streams of sunlight drape aspens in gold and throw sharp shadows across the mountainscape.
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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 Corona . . .
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Southwest Colorado seems to put visitors under a spell. The area's beauty amazes, transfixing the eye. 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 . . .
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