Experience Telluride & Southwest Colorado

Tucked like a jewel in a tiny valley caught between azure sky and gunmetal mountains is Telluride, once so inaccessible that it was a favorite hideout for desperadoes such as Butch Cassidy, who robbed his first bank here in 1889. The savage but beautiful terrain of the San Juan Mountains, with peaks like 14,157-foot Mount Sneffels, and rivers, like the San Miguel, now attracts mountain people of a different sort -- alpinists, snowboarders, freestylers, mountain bikers, and freewheeling four-wheelers -- who attack any incline, up or down, and do so with abandon.