South Central Colorado Travel Guide
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Fodor's Arizona & the Grand Canyon 2013
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Stretching from majestic mountains into rugged high desert plains, south central Colorado has lots of 14,000-foot peaks, striking red-rock outcroppings, rivers that boil with white-water rapids in spring, and even the incongruous sight of towering sand dunes dwarfed by a mountain range at their back. It's worth a few days for white-water rafting, hiking in the backcountry, and exploring historic gold-mining towns. Colorado Springs is bustling, but other parts of the area have a barely discovered feel. If it's peace and quiet you're after, staying put in a cabin in the woods can make for an utterly relaxed week.
South Central Colorado Hotels
The lodging star is the Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, built from the booty of the late-19th-century gold-rush days, but there are also predictable...read more
South Central Colorado Restaurants
Many restaurants serve regional trout and game, as well as locally grown fruits and vegetables. In summer, look for cantaloupe from the town of Rocky Ford...read more
Things To Do in South Central Colorado
Explore the best sights, entertainment, and shopping with our top choices and insider tips.
Travel Deals in South Central Colorado
- $148* & up -- Nationwide Flights thru Fall on American, R/T American Airlines
- $9.33 & up -- Car Rentals across Colorado CarRentals.com
South Central Colorado Experiences
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Ride Up Pikes Peak: Katharine Bates wrote "America the Beautiful" after riding to the top of Pikes Peak. Today you can drive or ride the cog railway... Read more
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In 1978 a group of University of Southern Colorado art students headed out in the cover of night, set up lookouts, and lowered themselves over... Read more
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Trip Ideas
From backpackers to businessmen, luxury seekers to religious pilgrims, all kinds of travelers are draw... Read more
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Trip Ideas
Ask around and most people will tell you to spend as short a layover as possible in Athens before booking... Read more
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News, Hotels
When an Aman Resort opens, we come running.... Read more
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· Forums Trip Reports
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I've lived in Colorado for nine years, but just enjoyed my first trip to Steamboat Springs this past weekend for the balloon festival. Read more
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We took a trip West. Read more
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I'm going to be doing a road trip from Boise, ID to Kansas via I-84 E, I-80 E, I-170 E near the end of April next year. Read more
