Travel Guide:colorado
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Colorado’s Hot Springs Make for a Steamy Winter Getaway
Colorado’s hot springs are even better in the cold weather.
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Is the Pot Tourism Scene in Denver Half Baked?
Denver is ground zero for the new pot tourism scene, but it still has a long way to go. Now there's an industry growing to create safe havens where people can smoke marijuana.
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Quirky Colorado: A Weekend Getaway Guide to Offbeat Denver
When I travel, I love going beyond the guidebook and seeking out the quirkier offerings of a destination. And as you’d expect from a mile-high university town where pot is legal, Denver has a lot of quirk to offer.
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Dinosaur Digs, Museums, and More: 10 Places to Get Your Paleo On
Maybe you’re fan of Jurassic World or happen to have a household of dinosaur-obsessed children who can talk endlessly about the difference between Apatosaurus and Deinonychus. This national park, which straddles Utah and Colorado, contains the motherlode of dinosaur fossils. Dinosaur National Monument is home to the largest quarry of Jurassic Period dinosaur bones ever discovered.
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Soon You Can Apply to Tour Hunter S. Thompson’s House
Hunter S. Thompson prized his peacocks. The descendants of those birds are alive and well and living at Owl Farm in Woody Creek, Colo.,, the homestead where Dr. Gonzo wrote while chain-smoking Dunhills through gold-tipped cigarette holders.
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Striking Gold: A Trip Along Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway
The usual scrappy-adventure-girl fixes don’t cut it when you’re headed for Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway. The problem wasn’t the aesthetics of duct tape in a luxuriously named destination, though this route through southwestern Colorado is nothing like Chicago’s Magnificent Mile or Palm Beach’s Worth Avenue. The two-lane mountain byway that connects Ouray and Silverton, a stretch of US Route 550, is routinely listed on most-dangerous-drives and most-scenic drives lists, for the same reason
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It’s 420! The Best Pot Tourism Spots Around the Globe
As more places have legalized recreational marijuana, the 420 celebrations have only gotten bigger and better. Denver is the new Amsterdam, and the Mile High city is now the best place in the world to celebrate 4/20. The Cannabis Cup used to be held in Amsterdam each November, but as Amsterdam has gotten less marijuana friendly, Denver has taken its place as the marijuana capital of the world.
