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Colorado Hiking Vacations: Trees, Trails, & Mountaintops Aplenty
Thomas Hollowell
Journey Beyond Travel
In the 1800s to Go West meant risking life and limb all for the chance to start afresh. Settlers with family in tote were lucky enough to make it as far as Colorado often inhaled a thin-aired mountain breath, stuck their shovel into the ground, and began building-the first homesteaders.
Colorado remained unscathed by a city populace for quite some time into the 20th century. However, the wont to walk west hasn't waned even today. Coloradoans still walk-these days referred to as hiking or trekking, of course-through trees, across trails and over mountaintops as their erstwhile kin. Whether you're a Coloradoan or not, a Colorado hiking vacation communes you with nature like no other state in the union.
If you're in town for a meeting, then you might be in downtown Boulder, Colorado. Boulder proffers some of the best hiking, smack-dab outside the municipality. All business can always be mixed with a Colorado hiking vacation. With hiking sticks and hiking boots in hand and on foot respectively, get ready for two of the best loops right outside Boulder.
If you dig loop-de-loops, then the famed Canyon Loop Trail will have you walking in circles of the mind for days. The Canyon Loop Trail may take you a few hours, so be sure to have your canteen, hiking equipment and (if you have more than a day), outdoor camping gear and camping cookware.
If the idea of Canyons aren't your cup o' morning brew, the Green Mountain Loop will greet you with a "top of the morning" salute; and, you won't see the same thing twice! Just minutes from Boulder, your Colorado hiking vacation will rejuvenate those inner-office blues. Bring binoculars, GPS, compass and topo-map and be prepared for a one-on-one conference with nature. If last year's trek in Yosemite National Park trapped you in noisy crowds, the Green Mountain Loop will be the Colorado hiking vacation escape you've yearned for.
If you've not come for a Colorado hiking holiday, but you'd like to leave the husband and kids downtown for a while, you can still escape. These next Colorado hikes are all less than ten miles-easily done in less than four to five hours, before lunch.
Excuse yourself for a half-day hike-a small Colorado hiking vacation you can call it-and attempt the four-miler Crater Lake Trail. If Aspen and pine forests form your tabernacle, then the Eaglesmeres Loop Trail at just over nine miles of churchy wood. Moreover, try those hiking boots-among other things found on the Camping Tips article (found at http://www.merelycamping.com/page/1356029)-on the Four Score Trail, just at seven miles long.
A Colorado trekking vacation could take up an entire sabbatical. The trail networks afford some of the most bountiful flora and fauna flaunted by Mother Nature. In fact, She seems to work year-round, as a Colorado hiking vacation can take place during any season of the year; so as you pack all the necessary hiking equipment and, if necessary, camping supplies.
Bring a camping chair as you'll be too tired to take another step if you wander Colorado hiking trails for more than a few days, as mountains, ridges and undulating hills create circumnavigations that will lead you beyond the your forefather's West.
Article submitted Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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