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History Museum · Capitol Hill · 26 tips and reviews
Colorado: Opening in April 2012, this brand-new, high-tech, Smithsonian Affiliate museum brings Colorado history to life through stories and exhibits right in the Golden Triangle Museum District.
Colorado: The museum holds more than 100 narrow and standard-gauge locomotives and cars. On 'Steam Up Days,' the museum provides narrow gauge train rides.
1805 N 30th St (at Gateway Rd), Colorado Springs, CO
Park · Old Colorado City · 173 tips and reviews
Colorado: This National Natural Landmark offers admission to some memorable scenery, featuring unusual sandstone rock formations up to 300 feet high silhouetted against the deep blue sky.
Colorado: The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve contains the tallest sand dunes in North America, and is one of the most fragile and complex dune systems in the world.
Colorado: Before the creation of three dams upstream of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, the Gunnison River was as much as five times more powerful than it is today.
Colorado: Drive the 23-mile Rim Rock Drive through the red-rock canyon, take part in a ranger-led program that explores everything from geology to wildlife or hop on your road bike.
Colorado: Famous for its round and square multi-story towers in six prehistoric villages, some of which are easily accessible via short hiking trails, Hovenweep is spread over a 20-mile mesa.
Colorado: Today a ghost town, Ludlow was the site of a vicious skirmish between the Colorado National Guard and on-strike coal miners. The restored site includes a miners’ tent camp, storyboards and photos.
10850 Sundown Trail (Roxborough Dr), Littleton, CO
Golf Course · 8 tips and reviews
Colorado: Be transported to another world made up of unearthly red sandstone formations as you play the Robert Trent Jones Jr.-designed course, named one of America’s Top 75 Public Courses by Golf Digest.
Colorado: 35 million years ago, this lakebed teemed with life when volcanic eruptions spread over the area. See the fossilized forms of insects, leaves, seeds and even huge redwood trees were frozen in time.