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Inspiring travel stories, tips, and guides from a couple exploring the world one destination at a time.

Colorado

Ouray Fall Magnificence

November 25, 2022 by Michael Huntley

Ouray, Colorado’s Fall Foliage is some of the best in the state because of the number of aspen and rugged mountains. Timing is everything. Last time we were here, we missed the peak by about a week and most of the leaves were down. It just takes a good rain or a few windy days to knock them off the aspen. This time it was peak, but it rained most days during our week stay. The bad thing about the rain was the jeep trails were mud, many of the yellow-orange leaves had fallen and clouds blocked the mountain peaks. The good thing was that snow fell above 10,000 feet creating dramatic snow capped mountain images.

Red Mountain Pass, Ouray Fall Foliage, Colorado
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Crested Butte, Colorado-Fall Splendor

November 18, 2022 by Michael Huntley

Crested Butte is an amazing Colorado location to witness aspen fall foliage. The small ski town, dramatic mountains, deep blue skies, and huge yellow-orange aspen groves are quintessential Colorado. From Leadville, it was about a 1.5-hour drive to Crested Butte.

Crested Butte, Colorado
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Leadville, Colorado-Rocky Mountain High

November 11, 2022 by Michael Huntley

Leadville, Colorado was our highest elevation full hookup RV campground at 10,152 feet. It is also the highest city in the United States. Leadville is surrounded by two of the tallest 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado. Fortunately, we were acclimated to the higher elevation, but it is never enough. The area is beautiful, especially in the fall with the aspen changing color. From Breckenridge to Leadville it was about an hour drive.

Aspen, Leadville, Colorado
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Breckenridge, Colorado-Fairplay & Como

November 4, 2022 by Michael Huntley

Breckenridge is a tourist ski town in Colorado. The main street is packed with shops, bars and restaurants. The neighboring streets are filled with Victorian homes, condos, and very expensive private residences all with the backdrop of the ski resort and stunning mountains offering both summer and winter activities. It has been this way for so many years and the development just keeps expanding and the old gets redone and improved. From Granby it was about an hour and a half drive.

Breckenridge, Colorado
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Steamboat Springs, Colorado

October 23, 2022 by Michael Huntley

Steamboat Springs is in northern Colorado near the Wyoming border and is a winter ski resort destination. It has produced an incredible number of Olympic athletes. There are natural hot springs in the area. Early trappers thought the hot springs made a chugging sound similar to a steamboat, hence the name. From Saratoga, Wyoming it was only about a 1.5 hour drive to Steamboat Springs.

Sandy Huntley, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Dolores, Colorado and Mesa Verde National Park

November 26, 2020 by Michael Huntley

Last Updated: July 20, 2026

Dolores is a small but historically rich town tucked into the southwest corner of Colorado at an elevation of about 6,900 feet. Telluride and Durango are roughly an hour’s drive to the east, while Utah’s canyon country begins just to the west. What makes Dolores such a remarkable base is the sheer concentration of world-class archaeological sites within a short drive — Mesa Verde National Park, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, and Hovenweep National Monument are all within 30 minutes. We last visited southwestern Colorado about two years earlier in the spring, and returning in fall revealed a completely different side of this landscape. The area is steeped in the culture of the Ancestral Puebloans — known historically as the Anasazi — who built some of North America’s most extraordinary stone dwellings here centuries ago.

Ancient stone ruins at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument near Dolores, Colorado, with walls of hand-laid sandstone blocks still standing after nearly a thousand years
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