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Hidden Colorado

Including Denver, Boulder, Aspen, Vail, Rocky Mountain National Park & Mesa Verde National Park

By Richard Harris

Details 70 parks and wilderness areas, 30 alpine ski spots, 30 snowshoeing trail networks, 38 rental stables with trail outfitters and 53 fishing streams.  Describes 53 turn-of-the-20th-century historic hotels.  Covers the “modern West” including 14 cowboy saloons and 11 restaurants serving buffalo.

Hidden Colorado is a fun-to-read, action-packed guide to the Rockies’ top destination. Filled with unique sights and secluded locales, it is a classic “Hidden” guide. This completely updated third edition of Hidden Colorado revisits old favorites and adds information on exciting new hot spots.

Serving as both a travel guide and an outdoor adventure handbook, Hidden Colorado is truly two guides in one. Veteran travel writer and Colorado native Richard Harris balances coverage of the state’s fast-growing tourist industry (including alpine resorts, dude ranches and seasonal festivals) with its vast expanses of unspoiled wilderness. His outdoor coverage runs the gamut from camping and hiking to mountain biking, whitewater rafting and, of course, skiing.

Inside Hidden Colorado:

(page 95) Stroll between the musicians and jugglers who populate Boulder’s Pearl Street in summer.
(page 140) Stretch out under the pines at Turquoise Lake, a fishing and hiking spot in San Isabel National Forest.
(page 180) Retire to the Hotel Colorado, a grand sandstone ediface modeled after the Villa de Medici.
(page 193) Investigate the soaring sandstone arches of Rattlesnake Canyon, a little-visited natural wonder.
(page 302) Contemplate the remnants of an Ancestral Pueblo civilization at Hovenweep National Monument.

3rd Ed., pb, 1-56975-192-7
$14.95, 376 pages, 12 maps
http://www.ulyssespress.com/

Edited by Dave Shultz

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