Show 0 These art are a few highlights in I the Rocky Mountain West Send Std the coupon on 0 the lilt back cover for fret free materials on 0 each tach state including detailed highway maps Look at the state everything's In Colorado When you unfold a size full-size Colorado highway map you'll quickly see why weve we've been unable to indicate our major peaks four fifty-four In number our swift flowing mountain streams miles of em interstate interstate inter inter- state system highways miles rebuilt ghost towns or bustling ci cities es upon this thumbnail affair However this much simplified map will wilt help you locate a half dozen of Colorados Colorado's major beauty spots and plan accordingly Rocky Mountain National Park 1 II is all youve you've ever imagined a mountain park should be Four hundred hundred hun hun- dred six square miles of tipped snow-tipped peaks flower carpeted meadows deep-blue deep lakes Eighty massive peaks including ft n. high Longs Peak and you bowl smoothly along ft n. high Trail Ridge Road when you go At Dinosaur NatIonal Notional Monument 2 where the Green Oreen and Yampa Rivers offer thrills to river runners as well as anglers scientists carve fossilized remains from the quarry where giant dinosaurs were trap trapped d eons cons Advertisement ago For a further lesson in geology and natural history seek seck out Colorado National Monument Mont 3 where towering mesas look down on irrigated fields farm-fields and bison elk and deer roam unafraid Across the Grand Orand Mesa to the southeast take the trail into Black Mock Canyon of a. tho the Gunnison National Notional Monument 4 41 where a seemingly tiny silvery stream has carved a great gash mile half deep through solid granite To view the handiwork of primitive man explore Mesa Verde National Park fork 5 51 Here the best best- preserved cliff diff dwellings in all the nation stand haunting haunting haunt haunt- ing and high above Montezuma Valley as they've stood since they were abandoned so mysteriously in 1100 AD A.D. Unique even in Colorado the state everything's in inis inis is is the Great Groat Sand Dunes Dune National Monument 6 61 where great billows of varicolored sand cross criss-cross to the horizon in a setting surpassing Hollywoods Hollywood's vision of the fabled Sahara Swing round Colorado border to border spend a week spend the summer come again Find Adv Adventure in Colorful Colorado Camping in the Colorado high country by car horse horst of backpack is an awe inspiring excursion into Inlo a timeless world of deep Jerp forests forts icy glacial lakes summer never peaks and brilliant sky 7 7 Y s 05 Coronado Coronados conquistadores the trapping fur mount tain men the plodding all passed this way marveled left their marks Today its it's your turn your turn to view the Majestic Mountains cross criss-cross the Continental Divide through well-paved well passes hike hike- along shaded pine-shaded trails fish countless trout streams sail on mountain lakes Here in Colorado whatever you seek seck in vaca vacationing is close dose at hand Invigorating mountain air Clear blue skies Sunny days cool nights The climate dimate is right right right- and so is the terrain Here the white-tipped white provide the background with 54 peaks lifting feet or r more towards those azure skies with other peaks topping the ft n. mark Fed by molting molt snows naw swift-running swift trout filled streams cut their way through mountain meadows and rocky gorges through ugh primeval forest and redolent with fresh-cut fresh hay From timberline to valley towns and cities you drive ride or hike beneath dark dark- green firs silvery aspens rustling cottonwoods Make camp in a national forest or at any of developed campsites sit lazy and relaxed as your fresh-caught fresh trout sizzles over the fire Lured by things past Follow the trail to a mine- mine country ghost town where fronted false-fronted stores sag on ona ona ona a forgotten main street where you'll find weathered hill boot-hill grave markers a shuttered photogenic schoolhouse a rusted mine hoist architecture recalling the truly gay nineties Perhaps you prefer the lively present to remembrances remembrances brances of the Old West Then you and your family will certainly want to visit the Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs where cadets parade on a campus whose strikingly modern buildings frame famed Pikes Peak You'll want to tour Denver with its capitol its museums see its new skyscrapers looking towards the mountains and across the plains For entertainment cultural style Colorado offers symphony folk music and opera at famed Red Rocks Shakespeare at Colorado University opera at Central City a sided many-sided arts fes festival val at Aspen melodrama at Canon City Durango and Cripple Creek little theatre productions at Boulder and Estes Park an anArt Art Artists Festival at Ouray For entertainment in traditional traditional western style there are rodeos stampedes and pageants at Greeley and Meeker Pagosa Springs and and- Boulder Monte Vista and Durango Colorado Springs Littleton Pueblo and Denver and just about every other town and city within Colorados Colorado's boundary markers Greyhound racing quarter horse racing thoroughbred thorough thorough- bred horse racing are other attractions or you can ride your own cowpony at a rather slower pace at two-score two dude ranches Take a trip pack-trip into a forested wilderness or an iron-horse iron train trip aboard the old narrow-gauge narrow from Durango go on a high cloud-high lake on a placid reservoir run river rapids in a kayak You can fit them all into a Col Colorado rado vacation Friendly people space aplenty the widest possible range of accommodations all are at hand in abundance in cool colorful Colorado Come see for yourself c- c 1 V ley Mysteries of an ancient vanished people haunt the sides cliff in i the prehistoric reaches of fascinating Mesa tsa Verde National Park I A A t I A A A J l e A A I A IJ n j A fiT f J lJ Ill 1 MOUNTAIN seura BOATING 1010 GHOST INon tow low |