Southwest Colorado
This specialist museum is dedicated to Silverton’s mining history. Old mining equipment is displayed and there’s a re-created machine shop and blacksmith…
Must-see attractions in Colorado
Northern Colorado
This small community museum has exhibits on early settlers (both native and white), skiing and artifacts from the nearby Windy Gap archaeology area.
Aspen
Opened in 2017, this is the Western outpost of Marianne Boesky's Manhattan gallery, displaying the works of emerging artists over two floors.
Aspen
Come here for famous 20th-century names from Chagall to Lichtenstein, mixed in with works from contemporary American and British artists.
Aspen
A two-floor gallery, the Baldwin opened in 1994 and specializes in contemporary American art. It's among the best in the Rocky Mountains.
Western Colorado Botanic Gardens
Southwest Colorado
The Orchid Display is the jewel in the crown of this small community botanic gardens, which takes an hour to leisurely stroll through.
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder
Prospective students and curious visitors can tour one of America's finest public universities, with a beautiful campus set above downtown, on what is…
Denver
Fire Station No 1 was built in 1909 and in 1978 it was turned into a museum exploring the history of firefighting in Denver. Mostly geared toward adults,…
Denver
This small temple to Colorado’s sporting prowess is in the Mile High Stadium (look for it near Gate 1). Beyond a gallery celebrating inductees to the Hall…
Denver
Indulge your fears and spy on your neighbors with the methods you learn at this over-the-top interactive learning center featuring plenty of footage from…
Denver
This much-maligned public pile of 'art' by John McEnroe appears to be a big red lingam-inspired mound of beans or sandbags. It lights up at night.
Colorado
This museum celebrates the life and legend of William F ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody, an icon of the American West. At his request he was buried at this site…
Southwest Colorado
The largest concentration of Ancestral Puebloan sites is at Chapin Mesa, where you'll see the densely clustered Far View Site and the large Spruce Tree…
Southeast Colorado
This museum is the only reason to stop in Walsenburg on the way to or from the Spanish Peaks. Set in the old jailhouse (built in 1896), it’s a monument to…
Southeast Colorado
This state wildlife area is a patch of bleak terrain on the edge of the Great Sand Dunes National Park, where dunes covered with saltbush and rabbitbrush...
Enos Mills Cabin Museum & Gallery
Northern Colorado
Naturalist Enos Mills (1870–1922) led the struggle to establish Rocky Mountain National Park. His infectious enthusiasm and passion for nature lived on…
Southern Front Range
The second-largest Jurassic graveyards in Colorado, and still one of the largest in North America, these are one of the quarries that spawned the Bone…
Colorado Springs
Set behind the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and those massive crenelated stone gates, on a cliff about two-thirds of the way up Cheyenne Mountain, is this tower…
Southeast Colorado
The Boggsville Historic Site, about 16 miles east of Bent's Fort and 2 miles south on Colorado Hwy 101, nestled on the Purgatoire River, was pioneer Kit…
Southeast Colorado
In 1914 striking migrant workers were living in a large tent city in Ludlow. After a series of conflicts, the Colorado National Guard were called in. An…
Southern Front Range
Set in an old midland train station terminal is the city's official museum. Between 1896 and 1949 the train came up from the divide four times daily. The…
Boulder
Naropa was founded by Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who escaped Tibet and climbed over the Himalayas into India as a young man. In…
Southeast Colorado
Just east of Lamar, this WWII Japanese internment camp in Granada covered 1 sq mile with 29 block barracks at its peak. Most of the 7567 prisoners (ever…
Southeast Colorado
Don't panic! The visiting aliens are harmless. Or mostly harmless anyway. And if you're eager for a glimpse (or perhaps want to leave an offering for a…
Southeast Colorado
Located behind the Chamber Depot, this museum has a small but well-arranged collection of ‘then and now’ photographs and artifacts from early farm life in…
Southeast Colorado
Heading west from La Junta toward Trinidad, you'll find this unforgiving wilderness of hip-high grasses and wild grains, rising into small hills and…
Central Colorado
Take E Main St to its riverside conclusion and you'll find a park that sprawls for more than 2 miles along the Arkansas River. At its northern end are…
Southern Front Range
When United Artists were making John Wayne Westerns in Cañon City, this is where they lived and worked. A turn-of-the-20th-century Colorado Fuel & Iron…
Southeast Colorado
The Bureau of Land Management has restored the wildlife habitat at Blanca Wetlands, northeast of Alamosa. Activities include fishing for bass or trout in…
Fred Harman Art Museum & the Red Ryder Roundup
Southwest Colorado
The Red Ryder’s image might be lost on today’s whippersnappers, but Fred Harman’s comic book hero was born in Pagosa Springs, and today Harman’s home is a…
Southeast Colorado
A somewhat decentralized museum with exhibits set up in a corner of the Southeastern Colorado Heritage Center, an old freight warehouse opposite Union…
Boulder
Scott Carpenter Park is named after Scott Carpenter, one of the original 'Mercury Seven' astronauts and a Boulder son. Families love the playground’s…
Southeast Colorado
A pedestrian-friendly and peacefully lazy channeled slice of the Arkansas – the rest of it is running more fiercely underground – this is the center of…
Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range
Southwest Colorado
One of three federally designated areas for wild horses in the United States, over 100 wild horses get the run of some 30,000 acres of craggy canyons and…
Rio Grande County Museum & Cultural Center
Southeast Colorado
This museum and cultural center features Pueblo and Ute rock art, Hispanic history and early photographs of Monte Vista’s ‘potato row’ wagons loaded high…
Southeast Colorado
A gorgeous relic built during the grand hotel era, the Vail was dedicated on September 11, 1911, withstood the 1921 flood and was named for chairman John…
Breckenridge
This isn't much of a park, but it is notable for its display of a vintage narrow-gauge rotary plow and the locomotives that powered it up the famed,…
Central Colorado
Housed in the 1882 Chaffee County Courthouse, the museum focuses on railroad and mining exhibits (there's a great model railroad of the Arkansas River…
Southeast Colorado
Manassa, a 10-minute drive northeast of Antonito, is home to a tiny one-room cabin where boxing legend Jack Dempsey was born as the ninth child of a poor…
Southeast Colorado
Set in three brick buildings, housing seven galleries that feature both fine and regional historical arts and crafts, this is more than just Pueblo’s art…
