Tours To Colorado

 The state of Colorado is popular for its cultural treasures, from ancient Native American sites and historic ghost towns to award-winning vineyards. Enjoy the wilderness of majestic mountains and hike, bike, fish and kayak through 18 million acres of state and national parks, forests and monuments on the tours to Colorado. The developed area of the state offers sophisticated shopping, diverse dining and exciting professional sports.

Northwest
This region of the state is said to be the land of Green Mountains and bone-dry desert, full of glitzy resorts and gritty sagebrush towns, ultramodern petroleum plants and century-old ranches. The largest city of the region is Grand Junction.There are various cities for tourist attractions like Aspen attracts the rich and famous from all over the world.
Its million-dollar condos, restaurants and vigorous cultural scene make it a popular destination in the region. There is also famous town, a ghost town of Independence, east of Aspen, located at 10, 900 feet. The history of Colorado comes alive in the small town of Craig. There aremany museums containing the rich past of the region. The Cowboy and Gunfighter Museum housed within the Museum of Northwest Colorado showcases a collection of hundreds of artifacts. The Cozens Ranch & Stage Stop Museum is another popularmuseum open to the public. The 1876 Cozens Ranch House is one of the oldest homesteads in the region in the Fraser Valley near Winter Park, which you can visit on the tours to Colorado.


Southwest
An archaeologist's dream, the southwest region of the state is known for the nameless ruins of an ancient civilization on the high flats of the Colorado Plateau. Mesa Verde National Park, Hovenweep National Monument and the Anasazi Heritage Center are the major attractions of the region. Ghost towns and abandoned mines litter the San Juan Mountains. The region has some spectacular sights with Blue crags jut between grassy meadows and plunge down to roiling white rapids. Hot springs bubble up from sources unseen, steam flaring. The largest town of the region is Durango, which offers Western congeniality. Hiking, biking, running, climbing, flying and boating are major activities among the people here. Telluride, Silverton and Ouray are the divine trinity of the San Juans with stunning physical beauty and high culture. The region has rich cultural and splendid past as the Ancestral Puebloans built cities in the sandstone, where Ute Indians farmed, hunted and continue to live later. Mesa Verde, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and Hovenweep National Monument are some places worth visiting for people interested in the region's glorious past

Northeast
Known also as Colorado's Outback', Northeastern Colorado is popular for its wide-open grasslands and seas of golden wheat - a land of infinite flats. The largest city of the region is Sterling. Old emigrant trails, antique buildings and abandoned settlements in the region make the landscape wonderful and picturesque. Gunfight reenactment, draft-horse pull, mountain man rendezvous, antique carriage parade, or heritage festival are some of the activities that the people here do in summer weekends. The tourists can enjoy by playing plenty of water sports offered by sun-splashed lakes and reservoirs. They can also go on hunting of pheasants, antelope, deer, geese, ducks, quails and wild turkeys. The major attraction of the region is the Rainbow Arch Bridge in Fort Morgan, which is one of the longest and first of its kind in the country that can be seen on the tours to Colorado. Its engineering design features arches with open spandrels that sweep across the South Platte River at a height of 1, 100 feet. The World's Wonder View Tower in Genoa is another popular tourist attraction, which claims a six-state view for visitors fit enough to climb the narrow, winding 1920s staircase to the top.

The adjacent museum has out-of-this-world oddities like multi-headed calves as well as interesting fossils and arrowheads.

Southeast
It was here that in 1954, that the first gold-seekers arrived - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his band of conquistadors. It is also the place that in 1806, that Colorado received its first emissaries from the United States - the expedition led by Zebulon Pike. The region's main attraction is Bent's Old Fort. The Fort was the first American settlement that was raised in 1833. The two largest cities of Southeast Colorado, Trinidad and Pueblo, made their wealth on ranching, coal mining and commerce. Pueblo has some amazing structures including St. John's Greek Orthodox Church, Union Avenue Historic District, Pueblo County Courthouse and Rosemount Museum. Tourists should visit this quiet corner of the state to experience the vastness of its landscapes and the bottomless depth of its roots. Boggsville founded on the banks of the Purgatoire River, which served as the main regional center for trade, culture and government between 1863 and 1873 and the Highway of Legends loops from Trinidad to Walsenburg are some other attractions of the region.
Denver
Denver is youthful, enthusiastic and primed for action, much like Colorado itself. This metropolis houses great museums, thriving neighborhoods, a flourishing arts scene and an ethnically diverse population. It has a happening downtown core full of restaurants, clubs, boutiques, galleries and packed sidewalks. It is one of the developed regions of the state and has matured to a point of sophistication and cultural attainment. The largest city of the region is Denver metropolitan area. This young city houses a brand-new airport, baseball stadium, central library, downtown amusement park and light-rail system. Lately the region is gaining importance in the country due to its development process. The Colorado History Museum is the major attraction of the region, which has detailed dioramas, historic photographs and artifacts that paint a picture of how the state has matured over the decades. Series of fascinating exhibits throughout the year bring to light Colorado's diverse history with focuses on Native Americans, mining, cowboys, Hispanic culture and much more. The Black American West Museum & Heritage Center is another place where one can know how African-American pioneers, cowboys and citizens helped shape the West. The Molly Brown House, the Byers-Evans House and the Museo de las Américas are other places worth visiting here.

South Central
South Central Colorado is famous for its assortment of pointed peaks, deep canyons and fulgent wildflowers. It's just a visual feast here with pristine silver lakes, hillsides covered in thick stands of aspen and pines and line after line of snow-capped mountains stretching across the horizon. Leadville, the highest city in America, seems to rest on a cloud here in this in this unpredictable terrain. Situated below Colorado's two tallest peaks (Mt. Elbert and Mt. Massive), Leadville is dotted with Victorian architecture and "ore lore." The largest city of this region is Colorado Springs, which offers a touch of urban class beneath the eminent heights of Pikes Peak. The Collegiate Peaks cluster around Buena Vista and the Sangre de Cristos soar over the sweeping Great Sand Dunes. In the San Luis Valley the land lies flat while at Royal Gorge the earth slips even lower, nose-diving a thousand feet to the Arkansas River. Tourists can do activities like rafting and fishing on these pristine lakes and streams. The Cumbres & Toltec Railroad is today nation's longest and highest narrow gauge railroad and one of the major attractions of the region. The National Mining Hall of Fame, Matchless Mine and Our Lady of Guadelupe Parish Church (the oldest church in Colorado) in the town of Conejos are other places of interest here in the region on the tours to Colorado.This is captivating tourist attraction

Front Range

A very aesthetic, beautiful, pleasing, picturesque, pleasant and ravishing place of the region, it is difficult to put in exact words the description of Front Range. The major attraction here is Rocky Mountain National Park, which is a 400-square-mile preserve of forests, meadows, tundra, and ponds. Estes Park serves as the national park's lobby, Grand Lake, its breezy back porch, Idaho Springs, Georgetown and other lofty hamlets tuck themselves inconspicuously between ridges. Framed by foothills, the city boasts 33, 000 acres of parks and trails, as well as a philosophy of spiritual and environmental health. There's plenty to do and see in the town. The Pearl Street Mall, Fort Collins, the largest city with its excellent dining and entertainment facilities, the site of Colorado State University, and Greeley, home of the University of Northern Colorado are other places worth visiting in the region. The Argo Gold Mill and Museum in Idaho Springs is good place to visit if one wants to know about the 'golden' history about the region.

The Fort Vasquez Museum in Platteville, built in 1835, offers an opportunity to the tourists to get an insight of the living conditions of the fur trappers of those times. The Hamill House, once home to a successful English miner, and the Hotel de Paris Museum, a well-preserved hotel are other attractions of the place.
Colorado
LOCATION

Colorado, best known as the home of the highest peaks of the Rocky Mountains, is located in the western side of the US. While western Colorado is rocky, the eastern side is mostly High Plains or the prairie region and is sparsely populated. The state capital and largest city is Denver.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN Colorado

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK offers majestic mountain views, a variety of wildlife, climates and environments.

BLACK CANYON OF THE GUNNISON NATIONAL PARK's main attraction is the scenic drive along the southern rim of the canyon. There is also a campground and several miles of hiking and nature trails.

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK is best known for a large number of cliff dwellings, houses built in shallow caves along the canyon walls. The park's archeological museum has information about the ancient Puebloan civilization and displays findings and artwork.

GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE is great for building sand castles and the creek inside the park is almost as popular as the dunes themselves.

NATIONAL FORESTS OF THE STATE INCLUDE:

Arapaho National Forest
Grand Mesa National Forest
Gunnison National Forest
Pike National Forest
Rio Grande National Forest
Roosevelt National Forest
Routt National Forest
San Isabel National Forest
San Juan National Forest
Uncompahgre National Forest
White River National Forest

NATIONAL MONUMENTS:
Dinosaur National Monument, located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains, consists of a steeply tilted rock layer, which contains hundreds of dinosaur fossils.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument has huge petrified redwoods and fossils of ancient insects and plants, which are almost 35-million-years old.

Colorado National Monument: A semi-desert land filled with Pinyon pines and juniper trees, the main attraction here is the Monument Canyon, which runs through the length of the park, and includes rock formations such as Independence Monument, Window Rock, and Coke Ovens.

Hovenweep National Monument comprises of six clusters of Native American ruins. Four of these, Holly Canyon, Hackberry Canyon, Cutthroat Castle and Goodman Point, are in Colorado.

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site: William and Charles Bent built the Fort in 1833 to trade with Indians and trappers. The fort provided explorers, adventurers, and the US Army a place to get needed supplies, wagon repairs, livestock, good food, water and company, rest and protection in this vast Great American Desert.

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site commemorates the Sand Creek Massacre. Some human remains have been recovered at the site but it may be that the camp was much more widely spread.

THINGS TO DO IN COLORADO

There are lots to do in this huge state. Enjoy the World's highest suspension bridge, aerial tram; incline railway and the plaza theater. The Colorado Railroad Museum is recognized as one of the best privately supported rail museums in the US.
If you happen to visit the state in summer, make sure you take part in the Colorado music fest and the Shakespeare festival. One of the country's most renowned fests, it presents the Bard's comedies and tragedies each summer from July to mid-August. Most performances are held in the open-air Mary Rippon Theatre, where audiences sit on stone benches with the Flatirons as a backdrop.