COME TO LIFE | Ways to Love Summer Ways to Love Summer WARM DAYS & COOL NIGHTS LURE YOU OUTSIDE Colorado’s beauty stirs a thirst to get out and enjoy every moment. Hiking Let your legs move you through Colorado’s hidden gems, protected wilderness areas, red rocks and high-mountain desert landscapes. A Few Ideas: Any Colorado State Park or National Park or Monument (page 33) Wildflowers: Sunnyside Trail near Snowmass • Brush Creek Trail near Crested Butte • Lory State Park near Fort Collins Waterfalls: Big Dominguez Canyon near Delta • Venable Falls near Westcliffe • Zapata Falls near Alamosa Ancient sites: Canyon Pintado near Rangely • Picketwire Canyonlands near La Junta • Ute Petroglyph Trail near Palisade • Wildlife: Visitor Center Trail in Trinidad State Park • State Forest State Park near Walden • Comanche National Grassland near Springfield Find More Ideas: COLORADO.com/Hiking NEAR CRESTED BUTTE Rafting & Boating Landlocked Colorado will surprise you with its rushing rivers, mountain basins and deep-blue reservoirs. Boulder Reservoir • Lake Granby • Lake San Cristobal in Lake City • Lake Meredith in Sugar City • Vallecito Lake • McPhee Lake in Cortez • Blue Mesa Reservoir between Montrose and Gunnison • Carter Lake in Loveland • more than 300 Grand Mesa lakes near Grand Junction, Paonia, Delta, Cedaredge and Hotchkiss Colorado State Parks: 26 of these, including Staunton • Elkhead • Harvey Gap • Rifle Gap • Stagecoach • Sylvan Lake • Vega • John Martin • Lathrop • Trinidad Lake • Crawford • Mancos • Navajo • Paonia • Sweitzer Lake • Eleven Mile • Spinney Mountain See page 54 for the full whitewater rundown. HARVEY GAP STATE PARK FROM TOP: ALLEN THORNTON; COLORADO PARKS & WILDLIFE/DUSTIN DOSKOCIL. A Few Ideas: Grand Lake • Lake Dillon • Learn More: COLORADO.com/Boating 20 1-800-COLORADO
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