Colorado Off the Beaten Path®
Colorado Off the Beaten Path®

Author: Christine Loomis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-06-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1493070231

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The essential source of information about the sights and sites travelers and locals want to see and experience--if only they knew about them! From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, these guides take the reader down the road less traveled.

Finding the Wild West: The Mountain West
Finding the Wild West: The Mountain West

Author: Mike Cox

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-11-15

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1493064169

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From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Mountain West states of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.

Stay on Route 6
Stay on Route 6

Author: Malerie D. Yolen-Cohen

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2012-05-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781468049398

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US Route 6, also known as The Grand Army of the Republic Highway, is the longest contiguous transcontinental route in the USA. Running from Provincetown, MA to Bishop, CA (and before 1964 to Long Beach, CA), US Route 6 remains for the most part, a two-lane highway on its way through fourteen states. This is your guide along all of its original 3,652 miles. From Revolutionary War sites to pioneer settlements and western mining towns, Route 6 offers an in-depth lesson in US History, charms of yesteryear and comforts of modern times. Compiled and written by magazine and newspaper travel writer, Malerie Yolen-Cohen, Stay on Route 6 highlights the best attractions, restaurants, hotels and oddities along America's long-ignored highway.

Colorado's Hot Springs
Colorado's Hot Springs

Author: Deborah Frazier

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1941821383

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COLORADO’S HOT SPRINGS is an entertaining, comprehensive guide to the state's sweet soaking sites and their histories. The photographs capture each spring's unique character and beauty. Each chapter blends descriptions of the warm water wonders with stories about the unique characters, events, and ancient use by Native Americans. The springs are Colorado's warm water ocean and Debbie visited each one. This all new, up-to-date guide profiles forty-four hot springs, providing descriptions, contact information, directions, maps, photographs, and historical notes.

Walking Into Colorado's Past
Walking Into Colorado's Past

Author: Ben Fogelberg

Publisher: Big Earth Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781565795198

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What could be better than a walk through Colorado's mountains, woods, or valleys? How about a history hike? Hikers and historians Ben Fogelberg and Steve Grinstead take you there, and then take you beyond-sharing vignettes of days past to enhance these 50 walks to historic places in and around Rocky Mountain National Park, Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, La Junta, and Trinidad. View gold and silver mines in their lofty mountain perches, visit old homesteads, walk to the site of a coal-mining tragedy, explore the burn zone of the Hayman Fire, descend a canyon to discover rock art and dinosaur tracks, even climb to remnants of a crashed B-17 bomber! From mile-long strolls to crossing the flanks of fourteeners, Walking Into Colorado's Past has fun and fascinating history hikes for all ages.

Colorado's Hot Springs
Colorado's Hot Springs

Author: Deborah Frazier George

Publisher: Pruett Publishing

Published: 2000-06

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780871089083

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Colorado's mountain landscape is home to several of nature's own “hot tubs”— idyllic geologic wonders people have treasured and enjoyed for centuries. This all new, up-to-date guide profiles more than thirty hot springs, providing descriptions, contact information, directions, maps, photographs, and historical notes. Whether seeking a soak in a remote mountain wilderness or in a spa at a small-town resort, warm water devotees will find everything they need in this book to enjoy the natural embrace of Colorado's hot springs.