Information provided for each hike includes topographic map with GPS waypoints and elevation profile; difficulty and class rating tailored to Colorado's terrain; optional routes for further exploration; and trivia and history.

A comprehensive guide to rockclimbing in the West End of San Miguel and Montrose counties in southwest Colorado.

"Easy, moderate, difficult backcountry driving adventures". This "... new Northern title replaces previous Volume 2. Total of 45 trails -- 23 all new. Everything redriven and updated. Detailed trail descriptions, 51 maps and over 240 photos cover spectacular areas north of Interstate 70. Trails near Denver, Boulder, Loveland, Fort Collins, Estes Park, Idaho Springs, Vail, Kremmling, Grand Lake, Glenwood Springs and Steamboat Springs. Thirty trails...

This classic guidebook has helped thousands of ambitious hikers and climbers to summit as many of Colorado's fifty-four 14,000+ foot peaks as possible. For others, the guide has enhanced favorite weekend outings, where numbers of climbs matter less than the exhilaration of simply "reaching the top"! In this twentieth anniversary edition, the foremost guide to the Fourteeners continues its longstanding emphasis on minimum impact routes and hiker responsibility....

Grand Junction and Western Colorado are home to hundreds of trails for hikers, bikers, runners, cross country skiers and snowshoers. This book contains detailed route descriptions for over 170 trails in the Colorado National Monument, the Grand Mesa, the Uncompahgre Plateau, the Book Cliffs, Horsethief Canyon and many more. These trails will take you to pristine lakes, gargantuan rock formations, historic pictographs, colorful wild flowers and meandering...

The first volume of Ghost Towns, Colorado Style is filled with over 230 historic and contemporary photos from the northern region of the Colorado Rockies. Organized into six geographic areas, this book of fascinating history is easy to use and fun to read. It covers over 150 town histories from Routt, Moffat, Larimer, Grand, Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties. To guide readers to various sites, Jessen also provides 60 detailed maps and helpful...

This book tells the history of the San Juan Triangle, the area roughly bounded by Ouray, Telluride, and Silverton, is an excellent crash course in the history of settlement and mining in the region. The first chapters of the book describe the histories of the main towns in the region: Silverton, Lake City, Ouray, and Telluride. After the histories of individual towns, there is a series of chapters that give a fairly exhaustive explanation of mines...

Includes descriptions of 25 rides in the San Juan Mountains surrounding Telluride.

12 itineraries introduce you to the Native American tribes of the Colorado plateau and take you to hundreds of documented and undocumented Ancestral Puebloan ruins, including those at major sites like Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon. Whether a native of this region or a traveling visitor, you will find this guide replete with all the information you need to travel off the beaten path in the Four Corners territory of the Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado...