10 days in Colorado in June
Besides RMNP, what are your top three or four places to see in Colorado in June? We won't be jeeping, hiking, or riding horses. Mostly I'd like to hear about great towns and scenery. A little som...
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tatest wrote:My top 10 list wouldn't even include most of those places. But I have lived, worked, and played in every corner of Colorado for more than 50 years. My list might include places like Monarch Lake above Granby Reservoir, Trappers Lake in the Flattops, Lake San Cristobal near Lake City, the Dolores River canyon south of Gateway, and the town of Marble during the fall aspen "leaf-peeping" season. In short, I don't like to camp where there are crowds, so my summer camping in national parks and monuments is limited.
RMNP and Estes don't even make my top 10. Most of my favorites are in southern Colorado.
1. Grand Junction, Colorado National Monument
2. Gunnison Valley: Montrose, Black Canyon NP, Curecanti NRA, Blue Mesa Reservoir.
3. Cortez to Durango to Silverton, including Mesa Verde NP
4. Upper Arkansas valley, Canon City to Poncha Springs.
But the OP has only 10 days to see a wide variety of Rocky Mountain scenery in as short a time as possible. So, driving 350 miles out of his way to get to SW Colorado might be difficult with that time constraint.
