7 Watch Colorado’s state mammal — the bighorn sheep — as they seek sanctuary among rocky cliffs. FOUND ALONG: Gold Belt Tour, Guanella Pass, Mount Blue Sky, Trail Ridge Road, Unaweep Tabeguache Engage four-wheel drive and take a rugged road through the backcountry. FOUND ALONG: Alpine Loop, Gold Belt Tour Feel the surge of steam or diesel power as you travel aboard a scenic and historic railroad. FOUND ALONG: Gold Belt Tour, Guanella Pass, Los Caminos Antiguos, San Juan Skyway, Tracks Across Borders, Top of the Rockies 8 9 10 Travel along routes originally forged by pioneers as they heeded the call to go west. FOUND ALONG: Pawnee Pioneer Trails, Santa Fe Trail, South Platte River Trail, Frontier Pathways 11 Soak your road-weary muscles in the therapeutic waters of a mineral hot spring. FOUND ALONG: Collegiate Peaks, Colorado River Headwaters, Los Caminos Antiguos, Mount Blue Sky, San Juan Skyway, West Elk Loop 12 Colorado may be landlocked, but its significant acreage of open water has anglers, motorboaters, sailers and waterskiers raving about the state’s lakes and reservoirs. FOUND ALONG: Cache la Poudre-North Park, Colorado River Headwaters, Frontier Pathways, Guanella Pass, Highway of Legends, Santa Fe Trail, Tracks Across Borders, Trail of the Ancients, West Elk Loop 13 Learn about the lives of Ancestral Puebloans and the Fremont, some of the first people to settle in Colorado. FOUND ALONG: Dinosaur Diamond, San Juan Skyway, Trail of the Ancients, Unaweep Tabeguache, Tracks Across Borders
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