We spent a month in Colorado during September and early October of 2015. Bottom line: you can't go wrong, no matter what you decide to do.
We found great color in the Maroon Bells area near Aspen, but the camping was sort of limited. We found excellent boondocking (and very good color) near Silver Jack Reservoir, in the Cimarron Range:
![](https://i.imgur.com/AhGM506l.jpg "border=0")
Click For Full-Size Image.
Anyway, here is a link to the first of four blog posts about that trip -- lots of photos -- hope this is helpful:
Part I -- RMNPYou can then get to the other three posts from that one.