Southern Front Range
This splashy 11,600-sq-ft facility is set on a ridge overlooking town and has massive mountain views. It offers a variety of interactive and…
Must-see attractions in Colorado
Colorado Springs
Colorado College’s striking, $30-million LEED–certified arts complex sits across the street from the Fine Arts Center. You’ll see sculpture on the front…
Breckenridge
A beautifully landscaped riverside plaza with ample seating looking out onto the numbered peaks. There is sculpture, a 19th-century wagon, a small toddler…
Southwest Colorado
Little Ouray, ‘the Switzerland of America,’ is very picturesque and littered with old houses and buildings. The visitors center and museum issue a free…
Denver
This dilapidated fun park has old-school rides like wood roller coasters, the hammer, spinning swings as well as a kiddie area with mellow rides for tots…
Durango Cannabis Discovery Center
Durango
One of the first cannabis museums in the country, this is really just a basic info center with a few video exhibits and helpful staff. Next door at their…
Southeast Colorado
Pueblo’s premier historic attraction is this three-story, 37-room Victorian mansion, constructed in 1893 of pink rhyolite stone. It contains elaborate…
Boulder
CU's art museum has three cavernous rooms, each featuring exhibits that change every few months. Works of art from the university's private collection,…
Colorado Springs
Set just off downtown, with Prospect Lake surrounded by wide green lawns and ball fields, and Pikes Peak and the rest of the southern front range looming…
Southern Front Range
Manitou got its name from the numerous mineral springs that bubble up from limestone aquifers along Manitou Ave. In some cases, it's believed that the…
Central Colorado
Tucked up against a stark, moonscape granite wall on one side and into a gorgeous, pine-dappled bowl on the other, this is one of the most picturesque…
Southwest Colorado
When the hunt for the state's fine wine leads to this pole building, your expectations might take quite a dip. But if Carlson's reds are nothing special,…
Colorado
This small museum gives a peek into the 19th-century mining industry history in Nederland, the reason why the town exists. Heavy machinery, rusting tools…
Vail
The highest botanical gardens in the US. Stop by for a soothing stroll past rock gardens, native alpine plants and collected species from as far as the…
Aspen
Aspen’s biggest public park runs along the river and is bisected by the Rio Grande Trail for 2.1 miles. The park is home to an enticing skate park,…
Montrose County Historical Museum
Southwest Colorado
Installed in the old Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Depot, this interesting museum has a vast collection of pioneer-era furniture and memorabilia. There…
Southwest Colorado
Step House was initially occupied by Modified Basketmaker peoples residing in pithouses, and later became the site of a Classic Pueblo–period masonry…
Steamboat Springs
A favorite among the area’s community history museums, these restored Victorian homes host an even-handed display about the history of the Native…
Louden-Henritze Archaeology Museum
Southeast Colorado
This small museum is located on the campus of Trinidad State Junior College, north of I-25. It's only one room and the exhibits could do with some more…
Southwest Colorado
A restored old steam locomotive, boxcar and caboose sit on a narrow-gauge bridge crossing the Cimarron River, the last piece of railroad infrastructure…
Colorado Springs
There's a small historical display in leafy Bancroft Park, which is set smack in the middle of Old Colorado City. The centerpiece is the Old Pioneer…
Aspen
A patch of green just off the Mill St mall, edged with cedars and a couple of shimmering aspens, and views of the Red and Aspen mountains. American…
Royal Gorge Museum & History Center
Southern Front Range
Good for that rare rainy day is this municipal museum, which introduces the region's early history. In 2013 it incorporated the local dinosaur museum…
Southern Front Range
Connected by footbridge to the Whitewater Kayak & Recreation Park, this place is called 'duck park' by locals, thanks to the numerous web-footed residents…
Northern Colorado
The Ezra Kauffman House is an 1892 log building that operated as a hotel until 1946. Now on the National Register of Historic Places, it contains period…
Colorado Springs
This attractive open space is connected to the Austin Bluffs Open Space and features a 4.4-mile loop trail that is suitable for adults and kids of good…
Southwest Colorado
Mineral treasures attracted miners by the trainload, but this museum chronicles the more intriguing opportunists and scoundrels who arrived to take…
Colorado Springs
Yes, museums dedicated to coin collecting do exist. This museum, operated by the American Numismatic Association, has gold coins from the early 19th…
Northern Colorado
This museum tells the tale of the town of Fort Morgan through antiques that have trickled down from the founders. There's plenty of information on…
Breckenridge
This small museum celebrates the first ski town in Colorado – that would be Breck – and the first century of Summit County skiing. There's a documentary…
Southeast Colorado
The beautiful Viejo (old) San Acacio is a historic Catholic church where mass is still occasionally held. To get here, head 4 miles east of San Luis on…
Estes Park
In the time you wait to be herded aboard a tram to the top of Prospect Mountain, you could have climbed Lily Mountain on your own two feet, but the tram…
Southeast Colorado
More than two-dozen artists display paintings, pottery, glasswork and weavings at this cooperative gallery built in 1983 by the origins of what has become…
Southwest Colorado
Many of the town’s pioneers are buried in the cemetery, about 0.25 miles north of town towards Mt Crested Butte. Also interred here are 59 miners who died…
Central Colorado
This middling museum includes an art gallery, Victorian artifacts from the late 19th century, a 10th Mountain Division display, dioramas explaining early…
Old Colorado City Historic District
Colorado Springs
The neighborhood known as Old Colorado City is where the original town was founded in 1860. It's former Wild West dens of vice (21 saloons in four blocks!…
Southwest Colorado
The Johnson Building was erected in 1881 and traded as a restaurant from 1901, originally as the Royal Cafe and later as the Johnston Restaurant until…
Colorado Springs
This living history museum near the Garden of the Gods park entrance is worth a visit for those interested in the lives of Native Americans and 19th…
Colorado Springs
Home to the much loved Uncle Wilbur’s Fountain, a lifeguard-monitored pop jet fountain with over 200 water jets, 52 of which are part of a play area where…
World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame
Colorado Springs
Fans of figure skating should stop by this museum where you can glimpse snippets of past greats. You'll see their skates and outfits, and stills and video…
