1 Buena Vista is a pop-ular access point for QUICK TIP 142 / These towns are serious about mountain biking , and winter doesn’t stop them from getting their ride on. How to stay atop the snow? All you need is fatter tires. Several shops in the area rent out fat bikes and will point you in the direction of the best wintery trails. 1-800-COLORADO FROM TOP: MOUNT PRINCETON HOT SPRINGS, MILES/LISA SEAMAN; ST. ELMO GHOST TOWN, CATHY EDWARDS. PLAYING AMONG THE COLLEGIATE PEAKS COLORADO PIKES PEAK WONDERS The towns of Buena Vista and Salida are only a scenic, 30-minute drive apart, so plan to traipse back and forth between them during your stay. feet — “fourteeners,” in local parlance. Next, visit to an aerial ad-venture park: With more than 120 challenges, including swinging bridges and tightrope walks, Cap-tain Zipline is the largest aerial adventure park in the state. Meanwhile, Browns Canyon Adven-ture Park (5) suspends zipliners above the roaring river, and Arkansas Valley Adventures (AVA) allows daring visitors to soar from clifftop to treetop on a 44-acre course. MORNING Travel along the Collegiate Peaks Scenic Byway , a 57-mile route that runs along the Collegiate Peaks Wilder-ness (3) and the Sawatch Range from Salida north to Buena Vista and be-yond. This stretch contains the nation’s greatest concentration of peaks higher than 14,000 Venture to central Colorado for a high-country getaway in the Arkansas River-side mountain towns of Salida and Buena Vista ’s hot springs, dramatic peaks named after colleges (Princeton, Yale and Harvard, to name a few), and unbeatable outdoor recreation.
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