Seven Perfect Days in Colorado: A Guided Driving Tour [2nd Ed.]

This guidebook contains everything travelers will need to fully enjoy a week in Colorado: a carefully-crafted itinerary, maps to show the way, a variety of activities which sample the best of Colorado, as well as recommended accommodations and restaurants. There is also information on what to wear and bring., Colorado facts, historical events and resources, helpful books, health tips, and what to do if you have kids along. The authors guide readers through a nifty circular tour which begins in Denver, makes a swing through the mountains, and ends in Colorado Springs. Along the way, readers will enjoy scenic drives, interesting museums, historic buidings, standing on top of a mountain, going deep into a gold mine, riding a narrow-gauge railroad, hiking part of the Colorado Trail, exploring a ghost town, driving across the Royal Gorge Bridge, a chuckwagon dinner and Western show, strolling around an alpine lake and through the Garden of the Gods, and learning about mining, wildlife, trees, fossils, Colorado history and mountain ecosystems.