A towering, hand-built stone-and-iron castle one man has been constructing for decades in the San Isabel National Forest southwest of Pueblo, complete with a fire-breathing dragon.
Road trips · Colorado
Colorado road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Colorado — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
Stone-lined natural pools set in the forest just outside Steamboat Springs, reached by a rough dirt road — rustic, scenic, and clothing-optional after dark.
A white-knuckle paved climb over 12,000 feet between Twin Lakes and Aspen, threading alpine tundra and old mining ruins, open only in the warmer months.
A surreal little canyon of banded, candy-colored clay spires near Calhan east of Colorado Springs, where people quarried pigment for centuries — easy trails, big payoff.
North America's tallest dunes piled against the Sangre de Cristos in the San Luis Valley, where you can sandboard the slopes and wade Medano Creek in spring.
Colorado's best-preserved ghost town near Buena Vista, with a wooden main street of false-front storefronts and chipmunks that'll eat from your hand — a dusty, atmospheric end-of-the-road stop.
Tee it up
Public golf you can book in Colorado.
Wolcott · $$$$ — High-country golf near Vail
Aurora · $$ — Colorado's golf-for-everyone muni
Plan the Colorado trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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