Colorado

Travel Colorado with Basin and Range Magazine. Once known as the Switzerland of America, Colorado is America’s rooftop with 637 mountains over 13,000 feet in elevation and 54 over of those topping out at over 14,000 feet. In addition to the Rocky Mountains, the state is also well known for its outdoor culture, craft beer and sunny skies.

Relentless Winter: 5 Resorts Blessed With Blower Snow

By Charles Watkins • California, Colorado, Outdoor Adventures

The 2016-2017 winter season will be one to remember for skiers and snowboarders thanks to record breaking blower snow totals across the West. This is due to an juggernaut of …
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7 years ago

Interactive Map of Colorado’s 20,000 Miles of Trails Close to Completion

By Charles Watkins • Colorado, Culture of the West, Cycling

Coloradans and out-of-state tourists alike can look forward to using a new interactive map of Colorado’s 20,000 miles of hiking and biking trails as part of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Colorado …
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8 years ago

Mountain Dispatch: Llama packing the West Elk Wilderness

By Charles Watkins • Colorado, Inside the West, Mountain Dispatch

Guest writer, Bill Veazie, sends us this Mountain Dispatch from deep inside the Gunnison National Forest’s, West Elk Wilderness.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget there is another Colorado besides the …
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8 years ago

Inside Guide to the Best Fall Colors of the West

By Charles Watkins • Arizona, California, Colorado

The overnight low at Winter Park, Colorado the other night was 32 degrees. It won’t take too many more of those chilling temperatures to kick-start the West’s changing of the seasons. To get …
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