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Telluride and Southwest Colorado

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Telluride and Southwest Colorado Travel Guide

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.

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About the Photo Grizzly Peak, Colorado
"My buddy Joe Brown and I skied Grizzly Peak (13,988 feet) in June. Just another superb outing in the Colorado Rockies."

—Andy Crisconi, Fodors.com Member

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