Colorado Hiking and Backpacking Travel Guide

Colorado Hiking and Backpacking Travel Guide

• Colorado Overview
• Colorado Hotels
• Colorado Attractions
• Colorado Feature Articles
• Colorado Adventure Trips
• Colorado Airports
• Colorado Flights

Other Guides for Colorado

• Colorado Travel
• Active and Adventure Guide
  • Aerial Sports
  • Mountain Biking
  • Road Biking
  • Ice Climbing
  • Rock Climbing
  • Day Hiking
  • Trekking and Backpacking
  • Rafting
  • Cross-Country Skiing
  • Snowmobiling
  • Snowshoeing
• Family Guide
• Gay and Lesbian Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
  • Fly-fishing
  • Horses and Riding

Top Hiking and Backpacking Destinations In Colorado

• Aspen, CO
  
• Vail, CO
  
• Boulder, CO
  
• Crested Butte, CO
  
• Durango, CO
  
• Continental Divide Trail, MT
  
• Dinosaur National Monument, CO
  
• Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
  
• Sangre De Cristo Wilderness Area, CO
  

Travel Guides In Colorado

• Denver, CO
  • Gay and Lesbian Guide
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Aspen, CO
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Telluride, CO
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Vail, CO
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Boulder, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Breckenridge, CO
  • Family Guide
• Colorado Springs, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Crested Butte, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Durango, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Fort Collins, CO

Mountain West Hiking and Backpacking States/Provinces

• Colorado
• Idaho
• Montana
• Utah
• Wyoming

Active and Adventure Travel Destinations

• Mid-Atlantic
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
• Midwest
  • Indiana
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
• Mountain West
  • Colorado
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Utah
  • Wyoming
• Northeast
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • Vermont
• Pacific Coast
  • Alaska
  • California
  • Hawaii
  • Oregon
  • Washington
• Southeast
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
• Southwest
  • Arizona
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Texas

Longs Peak, Colorado (Eric Wunrow/courtesy, Colorado Tourism)

On This Page:

• Top Destinations
• Photos
• Feature Articles
• Trip Ideas
• Practical Advice
• Adventure Trips
• Gear
• Fitness
• Attractions
• Hotels

Top Hiking and Backpacking Destinations	Related Travel Guides	Find Hotels
Aspen		Hotels
Vail		Hotels
Sangre De Cristo Wilderness Area		Hotels
Boulder		Hotels
Crested Butte		Hotels
Durango		Hotels
Continental Divide Trail		Hotels
Dinosaur National Monument		Hotels
Rocky Mountain National Park		Hotels

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Photos

Feature Articles

• Top Ten Active Baby-Boomer Vacations
  Hiking in Colorado
• Colorado
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  Rocky Mountain National Park
• GORP - Curecanti National Recreation Area - Colorado - Hiking
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• GORP - White River National Forest - Colorado - Hiking
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• Span
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Trip Ideas

• Hiking Colorado's High Country
  
• Do the Boulder Dash
  Top Denver Day Trips & Overnighters: Boulder, Colorado (30 miles)
• Backyard Playgrounds
  Denver
• 9. Rocky Mountain, Colorado
  GORP's Top 10 Favorite Parks
• Rocky Mountain Highs: Gunnison National Forest, Colorado
  GORP's Top 10 Autumn Escapes: Fall's Best Forests

Practical Advice

• Adventure Travel 101
  GORPTravel’s Kate Tucker and Linda Long answer our burning questions about the tao of adventure travel
• Day Hiking: A Packing List
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• Backpacking: A Packing List
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• GORP - Recovering from a Dislocated Joint - Dislocated Joints in the Backcountry
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• GORP - Dislocated Knee - Dislocated Joints in the Backcountry
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GORPtravel Adventure Trips & Guided Tours

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  Colorado Backcountry Hiker
  The World Outdoors
  from $1498, 6 days
  The promise of a backcountry, wilderness experience is fulfilled completely during our multi-day hiking adventure in the heart of Colorado's...
  
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  Arkansas River Valley Multisport Adventure
  Dvorak Expeditions
  from $142, 1-5 days
  From Colorado Rocky Mountain slopes of Pinon pine, Juniper and Cholla cactus populated by "Big Horn" sheep herds... to the summits of Collegiate...
  
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  Colorado & Utah: Mesa Verde, Arches & Canyonlands
  Country Walkers
  from $2498, 6 days
  Walking in this breathtaking region of canyon cliffs and fascinating rock formations is like entering an otherworldly sanctuary - one where eons of...
  
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  King Mountain Ranch
  King Mountain Ranch
  from $1075, 1-7 days
  King Mountain Ranch - Dude Ranch and Western Adventure Resort; where guests can choose to come for a day, stay a weekend, or experience a week. KMR...
  
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  Colorado Backcountry Multi-Sport
  The World Outdoors
  from $1598, 6 days
  Imagine a multi-sport getaway where you are literally immersed in the pristine wilds of Colorado's snow-covered peaks, wildflower-laden meadows and...
  

Gear

• Osprey Exos 46 Backpack
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• Women's Hiking
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• Therm-a-Rest ProLite 3 and Trekker Chair
  The best sleeping pad and chair-maker
• The Gear You Need: Mountain Trekking in Peru
  Save for dense snow cover and crampon-required icefields, if you’re looking to outfit yourself for trekking in places like the Peruvian Andes, we’ve got the goods.
• Complete Gear Archives: Day-Hiking, Backpacking, and Trekking
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things hiking.

Fitness

• America's Best Cities: Charlotte, North Carolina
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  No. 10
• Adventure Never Felt So Good
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  Rancho La Puerta
• The Fit List -- cont.
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Attractions

Eagle Bahn Gondola

Good For Hiking and Backpacking

Lionshead Cir
Vail, Colorado 81657

Description: Eagle Bahn Gondola is Vail Valley's only gondola, and provides the most comfortable passage up Vail... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Gem Lake Trail

Good For Hiking and Backpacking

Access: Twin Owls Trailhead
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Description: This trail leads from Twin Owls Trailhead north of Estes Park, to Gem Lake, cradled high among the... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Onahu Creek/Green Mountain Loop Trail

Good For Hiking and Backpacking

Access: Onahu Creek Trailhead, 3 1/4 miles north of the Grand Lake Entrance Station
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Description:

From the trail head there's about a mile's climb through forests of aspen, lodgepole... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

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Hotel Jerome, A RockResort

330 East Main Street
Aspen, CO 81611 Map

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Expert Rated & Recommended

Sonnenalp Resort Of Vail

Best Resorts & Lodges

20 Vail Road
Vail, CO 81657 Map

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Good For Hiking and Backpacking

Expert Rated & Recommended

Leland House & Rochester Hotel

721 East Second Ave.
Durango, CO 81301 Map

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