Mountains in Colorado

Discover 24 unusual mountains in Colorado.

Crested Butte, Colorado

Magic Meadows Yurt

Ski or snowshoe your way to a feast in the mountains.

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Colorado Springs, Colorado

AdAmAn Alley

An unexpected alley with light shows and nature views.

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Alamosa, Colorado

Medano Creek

A picturesque (all-natural!) beach in a landlocked state.

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Apishapa Arch

Aguilar, Colorado

Apishapa Arch

A short tunnel built straight through a magmatic dike.

Maysville, Colorado

Angel of Shavano

This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.

Sedalia, Colorado

Devil’s Head Lookout Tower

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

The Gunnison River is festooned by majestic steep cliffs in glorious winter light.

Montrose, Colorado

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

Alpine tunnel telegraph station

Gunnison, Colorado

Alpine Tunnel

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

The Herrick Sawmill

Florence, Colorado

Herrick Sawmill

An abandoned sawmill from more than 134 years ago stands testament to the ambition of one man.

Flowers on the hike to the springs

Aspen, Colorado

Conundrum Hot Springs

It takes a nine-mile hike to reach these hot springs, but weary hikers are rewarded with stunning views and a warm soak.

Permanently Closed

Lake City, Colorado

Alferd Packer Massacre Site

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

Mill, Butte, And Mountains

Boulder, Colorado

Valmont Butte

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

Mount of the Holy Cross, telephoto view.

Minturn, Colorado

Julia’s Deck

An ADA-accessible trail and deck offering stunning views of Colorado’s Mount of the Holy Cross.

Looking up the pass. The trestle seems a lot narrower than it is.

Winter Park, Colorado

Devil's Slide Trestles

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

Tunnel 33, now collapsed.

Winter Park, Colorado

Rifle Sight Notch

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

Hunting blind.

Winter Park, Colorado

Rollins Pass Game Traps

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.