Colorado Bucket List
I may be a bit biased on this one…because I am a Colorado native!
Colorado has always been my “home base” and I am currently living full-time in an RV traveling around Colorado.
Here’s everything that needs to be added to your Colorado bucket list from a local!
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Delivered Straight from a CO Native
The Ultimate Bucket List of Things to Do in Colorado…
- Hike a 14er (a mountain over 14,000 feet)
- Go skydiving over the mountains.
- Go on the candlelight tour in the Cave of the Winds.
- Camp in Rocky Mountain National Park.
- Go sandboarding or sandsledding.
- See history come alive at Dinosaur Ridge.
- Enjoy the Great American Beer Festival.
- Go to a Rockies Game.
- See the Great Sand Dunes National Park and try all of the bucket list activities there.
- Relax on Grand Lake.
- Take a historic tour through Durango.
- Drive through Glenwood Canyon.
- Marvel at the scenic lake of Island Lake.
- Go sandboarding.
- Shop on Pearl Street in Boulder.
- Attend the Telluride Film Festival.
- Trek St. Mary’s Glacier.
- Visit four states at once in the Four Corners.
- Go up to Pikes Peak via cog rail.
- Camp in the Great Sand Dunes
- See a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater.
- Explore Mesa Verde National Park.
- See the Ice Castles in the winter.
- Step back in time in Cripple Creek.
- Take a ride on the Durango-Silverton Train.
- Practice some goat yoga.
- Drive up Pikes Peak Highway.
- Climb the Manitou Incline.
- Visit the Breckenridge troll.
- Have your jaw drop at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.
- Ridge an alpine slide in the summer.
- Be inspired by the Wheeler Geologic Area.
- Tour breweries in Fort Collins.
- Practice yoga on a paddle board.
- Climb a Via Ferrata in Telluride.
- Transverse across the Royal Gorge Bridge.
- Hike Maroon Bells.
- Buy some crystals at Manitou Springs.
- Explore Glenwood Springs.
- Hot tub with fresh falling snow in the mountains.
- Learn how to snowboard
- Go snowboarding/skiing at…
- Keystone
- Breckenridge
- Copper Mountain
- Vail
- Aspen
- Hike Hanging Lake.
- Go to a 4th of July Rockies (baseball) game.
- Witness the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival.
- See Paint Mines Interpretive Park.
- Go horseback riding around Garden of the Gods.
- Climb lookout mountain in Golden.
- Feed the giraffes at Cheyanne Mountain Zoo.
Things to Eat in Colorado
- Drink a cocktail in a hidden speakeasy in Denver.
- Eat pizza at Beau Jo’s in Idaho Springs.
- Dine in style at the Melting Pot (my favorite restaurant)
- Go order an Aglio and Olio with extra red pepper flakes and a lemon at Cranelli’s (I worked here and this is my favorite dish)
- Go eat at Chili’s.
- Try Chick-fil-A!
- Brave some rocky mountain oysters.
- Experience something different with a bison burger.
- Find a local and have them cook you Green Chile.
- Order Colorado lamb.
- Taste freshly caught trout with some local spices.
- Eat an ungodly amount of palisade peaches (one of my favorites!)
- Get stuffed with a Denver omelette
- Taste a flight of local craft beer at a mountain distillary.
- Go to brunch in Denver (my favorites are Snooze, Urban Egg, and Bacon Social House)
- Embark a hunting trip.
- Go fishing.
- Visit the Airplane Restaurant (in a plane!) in Colorado Springs.
- Eat your weight in ice cream at Little Man in Denver.
- Eat way too much fudge in Estes Park.
Best Places to stay in Colorado
- Relax at the Broadmoor Hotel and Resort.
- Take the kids to Great Wolf Lodge.
- Enjoy Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs.
- Talk to some ghosts at the Stanley Hotel.
- Enjoy the interior at the Gaylord Hotel by DIA (and their pool is next level)!
- Camp in the Great Sand Dunes National Park
- Sleep in a cabin in the middle of the Rocky Mountains National Park.
- Rent a yurt at Golden Gate Canyon State Park.
- Rent an VRBO in a Breckenridge for a snow trip!
- Splurge on a ski-in/ski-out cabin.
- Live in luxury at the Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch.
- Stay in a ghost town at Dunton Hot Springs, Dolores.
- Ski out of The Little Nell, Aspen in Aspen.
- Camp at Eleven Mile for the fall leaves.
- Lay in the hot tub at St. Regis Aspen Resort.
- Enjoy the views at Gateway Canyons Resort and Spa in Gateway.
- Enjoy mountain luxury at Four Seasons Resort and Residences Vail.
- Stay on a Native American reservation (I would check out the Ute reservation).
- Feel like royalty in Glen Eyrie Castle.
- RV in Glenwood Springs.
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