COME TO LIFE / Find Colorado Roots SHARE WITH US! Share your #ColoradoLive moments and cool Colorado photos on Twitter and Instagram to be entered into random drawings for awesome monthly prizes. w 10 DON’T EAT THIS Search for Colorado-made delights you shouldn’t eat, even if they smell so good you might want to, from lavender sachets and hand creams to alpaca-wool socks. A Few Favorites: Alpaca yarn from Little Circle Farms in Penrose Naked Goat Farm’s Lemon Lime Whipped Body Butter in El-bert Lavender Hydrolsol Essential Oils from Halfpint Naturals in Edwards More: COLORADO.com/ DontEatThis 11 WATCHABLE WILDLIFE Colorado’s mountains, forests, plains, rivers and mesas harbor 960 different wildlife species. Ensure at least a couple of them are part of your vacation by following a birding trail, attending a wildlife festival, taking a ranger tour or goin’ fishin’. See page 50. More: COLORADO.com/ WildlifeTripIdeas 12 LEARN SOMETHIN’ Old dogs can learn new tricks! Try your hand at something new with classes offered in Colora-do — lavender growing, fiber arts, goat husbandry, foraging for wild edibles, horsemanship and more. A Few Favorites: The Art of Cheese cheesemaking classes in Longmont Weaving, spinning and felting workshops at The Living Arts School in Boulder and Entwine in Colorado Springs Foraging and preserving classes from The Growing Project in Fort Collins Painting and drawing retreats at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass More: COLORADO.com/ Events 13 GET THE HIGH PLAINS HIGHLIGHTS From bass fishing and wildlife encounters with the likes of lesser prairie chickens and golden ea-gles to historic Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian sites and canyons lined with petroglyphs to dark-sky sites for stargazers, our often-understated eastern third is anything but plain. More: COLORADO.com/ HighPlains 14 TAKE A PIECE HOME Antique shops around the state offer the chance to take home a piece of the past, from vintage snowshoes and wooden ski poles to old steamer trunks and Victorian-era clothing. A Few Favorites: Ski Country Antiques & Home in Evergreen Faded Rose Antiques in Ault American Classics Marketplace in Colorado Springs South Broad-way’s Antique Row in Denver More: COLORADO.com/ AntiqueShops e r 38 / COLORADO.COM WANT MORE COLORADO ROOTS? DOWNLOAD OUR COLORADO ROOTS E-GUIDE AT COLORADO.COM/ROOTS. FROM TOP: MOUNTAIN GOAT NEAR MOUNT EVANS, MILES/MATT INDEN; ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER, C2 PHOTOGRAPHY; GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, C2 PHOTOGRAPHY.
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