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.

Beaver Lake in Marble, Colorado


It won't be long before we'll be able to travel past Beaver Lake into Lead King Basin.  For now, however, this is the end of the road.  A late April, early May storm is leaving lots of snow behind, even though much of it melts as the sun comes out in between squalls.  It was during one of these breaks yesterday morning that I drove into Marble to get some shots of the cloud-shrouded mountains reflected in both Beaver Lake and the pond downstream of town.