4 Adventure-Packed Road Trips for Every Season
Make the most out of your seasonal road trip with these spots to eat, drink, play, and relax. Angela Ufheil •
January 1, 2021
Winter road trip highlighted in blue, spring in green, summer in red, and autumn in brown. Map illustration by Sean Parsons
Season: Winter
These stops feature ideal spots to bundle up and explore northwest Colorado’s snowy surfaces plus fun ways to thaw out.
Stop #1 Kremmling
Stop #2 Clark
Eat: Order red jalapeño poppers in the two-year-old Glen Eden Restaurant’s cozy dining room.
Stop #3 Glenwood Springs
Play: Daily lift tickets for Sunlight Mountain Resort’s 72 trails start at just $59 for adults so you’ll have cash left over for a trip to Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park the next day.
Aspen Journalism
A fly fisherman on the Blue River in Silverthorne on Nov. 28, 2020, which is designateda gold medal status based on the size and abundance of trout. A downstream ranch is proposing adding phosphorus to the river in an effort to improve fish habitat.
John Herrick/Aspen Journalism
A private ranch is seeking Colorado environmental regulators’ permission to inject the Blue River with phosphorus a chemical regulated as a pollutant as part of an experiment that could help improve trout habitat at a popular high-country fishing destination.
Kremmling-based Blue Valley Ranch, owned by the billionaire philanthropist Paul Tudor Jones II, proposes beginning the project as soon as next summer on an 8-mile stretch of the river running through its 25,000-acre ranch, which is located on both sides of the river between Green Mountain Reservoir and Colorado River.