Colorado Bucket List (By a Local!)

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.

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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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