Colorado Climbing Vacations

Colorado Climbing Travel Guide

• Colorado Overview
• Colorado Hotels
• Colorado Attractions
• Colorado Feature Articles
• Colorado Vacation Rentals

Other Guides for Colorado

Active and Adventure Guide
• Aerial Sports
• Biking
• Climbing
• Hiking and Backpacking
• Paddling
• Skiing
• Snow Sports
• Family Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
  • Horses and Riding

Top Climbing Destinations In Colorado

• Colorado Springs, CO
  
• Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, CO
  
• Ouray, CO
  
• Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
  

Travel Guides In Colorado

• Aspen and Snowmass, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Family Guide
• Telluride, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Family Guide
• Boulder, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Crested Butte, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Durango, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Fruita, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Ouray, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Sangre De Cristo Wilderness Area, CO
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide

Mountain West Climbing 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

Top Colorado Climbing Destinations

• Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
• Colorado Springs
• Ouray
• Rocky Mountain National Park

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Feature Articles

• Rocky Mountain
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  Hugged a Colorado Fourteener Lately?
• 2. Longs Peak
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  Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
• Kid Everest
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• GORP - Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park - Colorado - Climbing
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• GORP - Rocky Mountain National Park - Colorado - Climbing
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Trip Ideas

• Hiking Colorado's High Country
  
• Backyard Playgrounds
  Denver

Practical Advice

• How to Build a Bomber Anchor
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  To set up your own anchor for a climbing top rope (or slackline, or car stuck in a ditch), all you need is a 20-foot piece of webbing, a carabiner, and a tree.
• A Trekking Primer
  
• A Mountain Climbing Primer
  

GORPTravel Trips

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  Rocky Mountain Multisport
  The World Outdoors
  from $1998, 6 days
  Rocky Mountain National Park and surrounding wilderness areas are the showstoppers of the West! Emerald lakes, wildflower meadows and old growth...
  
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  Colorado Rock Climbing
  AVA's Colorado Rafting
  from $65, 1 days
  Arkansas Valley Adventures offers rock climbing lessons and guided climbing trips. AVA provides half-day trips for the beginner or intermediate...
  

Gear

• Complete Gear Archives: Climbing
  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 climbing.
• 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.
• Women’s Climbing Gear Essentials
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• Climbing Gear Essentials
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• Ice Climbing
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  Upgrade your frozen fun with the best new tools and apparel.

Fitness

• Mountain Athlete
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  Jackson, Wyoming
• Chalk It Up
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  Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day
• Hot Flex
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  Meet your secret muscles—and find out how these hidden assets can leverage your leap to peak performance
• Winter's Wonderland Workout
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  Class Outside

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Attractions

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Hotels

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Lake Shore Lodge
1700 Big Thompson Ave
Estes Park, CO 80517 Map

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Lake Estes Inn and Suites
1650 Big Thompson Ave
Estes Park, CO 80517 Map

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Antlers at Vail Resort
680 West Lionshead Place
Vail, CO 81657 Map

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