Travel

Weather extremes in Colorado make any outdoor activities that can be done year-round a hot commodity (no pun intended).

…and stay for the traffic jams.

Cooper, which first debuted as Cooper Hill in 1942, opened for the 2017-2018 season on December 9; it will celebrate its 75th birthday on New Year’s Eve. The publicly owned ski area has some of the most affordable lift tickets in the state. If you’re looking to avoid crowds, lift lines, man-made snow and mega-resort vibes, this is your spot.

Monarch Mountain opened for the 2017-2018 season in late November. Here are five things you need to know about Monarch this season.

Crested Butte opened its 56th season on Thanksgiving, with a champagne toast during first chair at 9 a.m. But the party will continue all winter in the Gunnison Valley. Here are five things you need to know about Crested Butte this season.

After a week of no-snow delays, Eldora opens today, November 25, when it will debut the high-speed, six-person Alpenglow lift. Here are five more things to know about Eldora.

Aspen Snowmass comprises four of the most incredible mountains in Colorado — Aspen Mountain (aka Ajax), Aspen Highlands, Buttermilk and Snowmass — all on one lift ticket. Here are five things you need to know about Aspen Snowmass.

Beaver Creek officially opens on November 22, but the season-opening festivities stretch out over several weeks. Here are five thngs to know about the resort for the 2017-2018 ski season.

A long-term partnership with the Woodward Copper action-sports center has helped make Copper Mountain a magnet for skiers and snowboarders looking to learn new tricks. Here are five more things to know about Copper for the 2017-2018 season.

Keystone is open for the 2017-2018 ski season. Here are five things you need to know to get peak enjoyment out of this favorite resort.

Breckenridge opened on November 10. Here are five things you need to know about this popular resort.

Loveland was second out of the gate in the #racetoopen for the 2017-2018 season, with the chairlifts spinning since October 20, and has been firing the snow guns (and getting periodic dumps of the real stuff) ever since.

For most people, running a 5K or a 10K race is quite enough, thank you very much. A race over 100 miles? Well, that sounds downright stupid.

The lifts have been turning since October 13 at A-Basin, winner — as usual — of the #racetoopen battle for first Colorado ski area to bring action to its slopes for the season.

School may be back in session and the days are getting shorter, but there is still nearly a month left to take a summer road trip. So hop in your car and head in any of the four directions from Denver, and you’re sure to encounter vastly different histories, cultures and landscapes. Taken from our Best of Denver edition, these four road trips will take you through some of the best Colorado has to offer.

Craig Foldes, the founder of Dirt Road Travels, knows there are already plenty of city travel guides out there. But he thinks he can do better.

When one of my roommates first asked me if she could host two people at our house last weekend, I said “of course” and didn’t think much more of it. But when I later found out that our two guests were bicycle tourists who’d been pedaling around the globe for years, I got really excited.

There’s nary a dull moment at the Stanley Hotel, the iconic lodging in Estes Park that was the inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining. Under owner John Cullen, the Stanley is trying to become the epicenter of the worldwide horror-film industry by constructing a $24 million film center — even if there…