Welcome to the Colorado backcountry

The vast acreage of wilderness and backcountry beauty in Colorado make it one of the more popular locations for camping, backpacking, and day-hiking.

In addition to a eight National Parks and Monuments, Colorado boasts an equal number of Wilderness Areas, millions of acres of National Forest and BLM land, and over three dozen state parks.

From mountains to deserts, and grasslands to canyons, one could spend a lifetime hiking the trails of Colorado and not cover all of them.

Colorado's Crystal River




Late autumn and early winter offer some incredible photo opportunties on the Crystal River.  These stretches will be almost completely snow-covered soon.  Right now, with the mixture of ice and open water, they have so much more visual interest.

These two photos were taken between Marble and Redstone, Colorado.