Hiking Colorado's Front Range

Hiking Colorado's Front Range
Author: Bob D'Antonio
Publisher: Falcon Guides
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780762770854

Profiles of 55 great hikes along the Rocky Mountain front, from Fort Collins south to Colorado Springs. Experts and novice hikers alike will find overnights and day hikes with spectacular scenery, abundant wildlife, wildflowers, and fascinating landscapes

Colorado Front Range Bouldering - Southern Areas

Colorado Front Range Bouldering - Southern Areas
Author: Bob Horan
Publisher: Falcon Press Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Front Range (Colo.)
ISBN: 9781575400020

Descriptions of bouldering problems in Morrison, Castlewood Canyon, Colorado Springs and Pueblo Areas of Colorado. Illustrated wiith maps.

Mountain Biking Colorado's Front Range

Mountain Biking Colorado's Front Range
Author: Stephen Hlawaty
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493082825

Mountain Biking Colorado's Front Range includes over 45 of the greatest off-road mountain bike rides along Colorado's Front Range. A mountain biking atlas to the Front Range region, this one-of-a-kind guidebook details each trail in relation to local history, geology, archeology, legend, and lore. Mountain Biking Colorado's Front Range includes rides near the major Front Range communities of Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs. In addition to the rides, this book also includes additional chapters on mountain bike related topics such as the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA), Any and All Bikes one-stop mobile bike shop, and Denver's famed HandleBar & Grill. Readers will find highly detailed and accurate maps, route directions, brilliant photography, vivid descriptions, and much more.

Base Camp Denver: 101 Hikes in Colorado's Front Range

Base Camp Denver: 101 Hikes in Colorado's Front Range
Author: Pete KJ
Publisher: IMBRIFEX BOOKS
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1945501146

Denver is known the world over as the gateway to Colorado’s magnificent Rocky Mountains. Four national forests, a national grassland, scores of regional and city parks and preserves, and Rocky Mountain National Park offer hundreds of hiking and walking trails—all within one to three hours of downtown Denver. Base Camp Denver offers you 101 of the best of these great hiking destinations to choose from. Take a day to explore an alpine meadow, walk to a waterfall, hike through a forest, or stroll suburban parklands. Enjoy a spectacular day of spring wildflowers or fall foliage, and still be home by dinnertime. Scramble to the top of a mountain to enjoy a sunrise and still make it to work by eight. With Pete KJ as your guide and Denver as your base camp, the splendor of Colorado’s Front Range is yours to enjoy one day—or even just a few hours—at a time. History, geology, flora, and fauna for each hike Best hikes for each season, and where to enjoy spring wildflowers & fall foliage Ratings from 1 to 5 for trail conditions, difficulty, suitability for children, and more Detailed driving directions to trailheads and info about elevation, hiking time, parking, and restrooms Regional maps showing all trails in each chapter; route map for each hike Best hikes for dogs, kids, and teens Hikes that offer solitude ... or plenty of company! Hikes by interest: birdwatching, stargazing, wetlands, wildlife, and more How to prepare & what to take 101 great hikes to choose from! Best hikes for each season, and where to enjoy spring wildflowers & fall foliage Ratings from 1 to 5 for trail conditions, difficulty, suitability for children, and more Detailed driving directions to trailheads and info about elevation, hiking time, parking, and restrooms Regional maps showing all trails in each chapter; route map for each hike Best hikes for dogs, kids, and teens Hikes that offer solitude ... or plenty of company! Hikes by interest: birdwatching, stargazing, wetlands, wildlife, and more How to prepare & what to take 101 great hikes to choose from! -- Pete KJ

Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range

Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range
Author: Lon Abbott
Publisher: Geology Underfoot
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780878425952

The book¿s 21 chapters, or vignettes, lead you to easily accessible stops along the Front Range¿s highways and byways, where you¿ll meet the apatosaur and other dinosaurs who roamed the floodplains and beaches that once covered the Front Range; look for diamonds in rare, out-of-the-way volcanic pipes; learn how America¿s mountain, Pikes Peak, developed from molten magma miles below the surface only to become an important visual landmark for early Great Plains¿ travelers; and walk the Gangplank, a singularly important plateau for both nineteenth-century westward expansion and our understanding of the Front Range¿s most recent exhumation.

MakingTurns in Colorado's Front Range

MakingTurns in Colorado's Front Range
Author: Fritz Sperry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1914-11-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780988401228

A guidebook to backcountry skiing and snowboarding routes in Colorado's Front Range. Featuring 70+ routes on 36 peaks, along with Loveland Pass, also Arapahoe Basin and Loveland Ski Area backcountry.

Run the Rockies

Run the Rockies
Author: Steven Bragg
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780972441353

A comprehensive reference guide to the Colorado Front Range for any level of trail runner. *Contains many of the best outings in the state from the Colorado Mountain Club, the outdoor experts in the Rockies for nearly a century*Full-color guidebook, plus fully GPS enabled*The latest in a new series from the Colorado Mountain Club: CMC's Classics

Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range

Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range
Author: Janet Chu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780983702023

Nearly everyone loves butterflies. We watch them because they're exquisitely beautiful, but they also have magical life cycles and intricate relationships among their host ecosystems. Are you overwhelmed by the array of possibilities in field guides that cover a broad geographic range? This user-friendly book focuses on 100 frequently seen species in the Colorado Front Range. Easily identify butterflies using over 120 striking color photos of individuals in their natural setting, and clear descriptions of both males and females. Each entry also includes that species habitat and life cycle, the caterpillar s host plants, and look-alike butterflies. The introduction includes tips on where to find butterflies, how to get close to them, and what we can do to attract them to our gardens and preserve their sensitive habitats.

Walking Into Colorado's Past

Walking Into Colorado's Past
Author: Ben Fogelberg
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2006
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781565795198

What could be better than a walk through Colorado's mountains, woods, or valleys? How about a history hike? Hikers and historians Ben Fogelberg and Steve Grinstead take you there, and then take you beyond-sharing vignettes of days past to enhance these 50 walks to historic places in and around Rocky Mountain National Park, Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, La Junta, and Trinidad. View gold and silver mines in their lofty mountain perches, visit old homesteads, walk to the site of a coal-mining tragedy, explore the burn zone of the Hayman Fire, descend a canyon to discover rock art and dinosaur tracks, even climb to remnants of a crashed B-17 bomber! From mile-long strolls to crossing the flanks of fourteeners, Walking Into Colorado's Past has fun and fascinating history hikes for all ages.

Fly Fishing Colorado's Front Range

Fly Fishing Colorado's Front Range
Author: Hosman Todd
Publisher: West Winds Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Fly fishing
ISBN: 9780871088932

This guide covers more than 50 fly fishing destinations, all within a 90-minute drive of Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins, and Colorado Springs. Includes descriptions, illustrations, and photos of the region's most common insects and fly patterns.