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Few vacation on Earth can match western Colorado for the adventure, beauty and romance. Tucked away on the other side of the Continental Divide is the other in Colorado, Colorado who have never heard of!

Western Colorado is filled with the picture-postcard villages, snow-capped peaks, alpine lakes, ancient cities sandstone, vineyards, and unforgettable views.

When most people think of Colorado, who like snow and cold, but everything in the high country. There is another Colorado, Western Colorado warm and welcoming.

You can enjoy skiing in the morning on the Grand Mesa and afternoon golf in Grand Junction. Everything is available on a sixty miles.

If you do not want to play in the snow, which can become an "Indiana Jones" and explore ancient cities of sandstone of southwestern Colorado in Mesa Verde National Park. The park is the archaeological center of America.

Just down the road You can try your hand at riding the rails to the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. This steam train runs right when the wildlife area. You see real you desert window.

After the train adventure you can take in a melodrama of the Old West in the famous Strater Hotel in Durango, Colorado. Louis L'amour wrote many of his novels of the West in room 202 while listening to the sound of honky tonk piano.

The next day you can tour mountains of coal Silverton Colorado bank, the western city that time forgot. You can see a recreation of a cowboy shooting gun as the fight against society Silverton.

If you prefer, you can go into a gold mine and learn about the history of hard rock mining in 1880. In the century-old gold mine that still show how to find gold. You can find a nugget.

Want to spend a romantic night in a railway carriage? The Silverton Hotel has been transformed Hyman in a caboose to a cozy cabin for two in your backyard seclusion. It comes complete with fireplace and whirlpool.

Just over the mountain is Ouray Colorado "Switzerland of the Rockies," the people of the Rocky Mountains of America's most romantic. There are no large hotels here, lodging only small and friendly Bed and Breakfast.

The Ute Indians believed that Ouray had "Big Medicine" on it many mineral springs scattered throughout the people. Try to swim in the water and you decide.

While in the beautiful San Juan Mountains of western Colorado, the story gets real, to explore mines, factories and ghost towns in the park. The trip is also filled with wildflowers in the Alps and waterfalls, as well as spectacular scenery.

The small village of Ridgeway Colorado is "True Grit" country. It was in the west of Fort Smith John Wayne classic True Grit. You can still see the park and house prison. Dad's car in the film is in the open air museum of railway.

The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, west of Montrose, is the new national park. It is home to a spectacular canyon deep and narrow where the Gunnison River appears as a small silver mounted below 2000 feet.

Upstream transport is a Norwegian fjords barrel in Morrow Point Reservoir. It's fascinating journey through the U.S. foreign Park Service sinking ship in the waters enough in the black canyon.

The largest flat top mountain in the world is the Grand Mesa. Has a secret known only to locals - is home to over 300 trout-filled lakes situated amidst beautiful mountain forest. At 10, 500 feet that has the nickname "Island in the sky."

Visit Colorado's Wine Country concentrated around Palisade Colorado. Twenty vineyards and wineries are in this small valley makes travel easy and convenient. The views here are less marketed, again lard and friendly.

Colorado National Monument on the other side of the Grand Valley is a huge area sandstone monoliths, deep canyons eroded. It is very romantic at sunset while watching light show of nature in the long shadows and then you see the lights of the city far below.

Western Colorado remains hidden in the shadows, across the continental divide. But a few holidays in the world can match Western Colorado for adventure with few people, the beauty and romance.

By Tod Vandewalker
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