Description
The top 100 places to visit in Colorado, starting with the most breathtaking: the Maroon Bells, Great Sand Dunes, Garden of the Gods, Rocky Mountain National Park and Mesa Verde, then hidden gems like the Crystal Mill, the Paint Mines, Ice Lakes Basin, Bishop Castle and Wheeler Geologic Area. Every place is pinned on a 3D satellite map of Colorado, with fun facts along the way.
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Chapters:
0:00 #1 Maroon Bells
0:25 #2 Great Sand Dunes
0:46 #3 Garden of the Gods
1:08 #4 Rocky Mountain National Park
1:29 #5 Mesa Verde
1:53 #6 Black Canyon of the Gunnison
2:16 #7 Hanging Lake
2:36 #8 Million Dollar Highway
2:58 #9 Crystal Mill
3:21 #10 Red Rocks Amphitheatre
3:43 #11 Pikes Peak
4:07 #12 Telluride
4:30 #13 Royal Gorge Bridge
4:50 #14 Paint Mines
5:11 #15 Durango & Silverton Railroad
5:32 #16 Ouray
5:56 #17 Colorado National Monument
6:19 #18 Zapata Falls
6:37 #19 Glenwood Springs
6:56 #20 St. Elmo
7:17 #21 Crested Butte
7:36 #22 Picket Wire Canyonlands
7:58 #23 Denver
8:19 #24 Fish Creek Falls
8:37 #25 Chimney Rock
8:57 #26 Breckenridge
9:21 #27 Rifle Falls
9:39 #28 Leadville
10:02 #29 Chautauqua Park, Boulder
10:20 #30 Estes Park
10:38 #31 Aspen
10:59 #32 Ice Lakes Basin
11:22 #33 Mount Blue Sky
11:44 #34 Four Corners Monument
12:05 #35 Bishop Castle
12:29 #36 Dinosaur National Monument
12:53 #37 Vail
13:14 #38 Florissant Fossil Beds
13:39 #39 Cave of the Winds
13:58 #40 Pagosa Springs
14:17 #41 Grand Mesa
14:38 #42 Eldorado Canyon
15:02 #43 Rattlesnake Canyon Arches
15:22 #44 Denver Colorado Temple
15:42 #45 Cumbres & Toltec Railroad
16:04 #46 Independence Pass
16:29 #47 Mount Elbert
16:52 #48 Seven Falls
17:13 #49 Manitou Incline
17:36 #50 Little Book Cliffs Wild Horses
17:56 #51 Animas Forks
18:17 #52 Silverton
18:39 #53 Hanging Flume
19:00 #54 Kebler Pass
19:23 #55 Grand Lake
19:42 #56 Lake San Cristobal
20:06 #57 Dallas Divide
20:28 #58 Georgetown Loop Railroad
20:47 #59 Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
21:06 #60 Canyons of the Ancients
21:28 #61 Spanish Peaks
21:49 #62 Camp Hale
22:09 #63 Cache la Poudre River
22:28 #64 Salida and Browns Canyon
22:47 #65 Mount Princeton Hot Springs
23:07 #66 Bent's Old Fort
23:28 #67 Trappers Lake
23:49 #68 Ute Mountain Tribal Park
24:07 #69 Wheeler Geologic Area
24:28 #70 Mount of the Holy Cross
24:47 #71 Blue Mesa Reservoir
25:08 #72 Golden
25:26 #73 Fort Collins
25:47 #74 Redstone
26:05 #75 Ashcroft Ghost Town
26:27 #76 Creede
26:46 #77 Rocky Mountain Arsenal Refuge
27:04 #78 Dinosaur Ridge
27:24 #79 Crestone
27:44 #80 Roxborough State Park
28:01 #81 Treasure Falls
28:21 #82 Peak to Peak Scenic Byway
28:38 #83 Sand Creek Massacre NHS
29:00 #84 Molly Brown House Museum
29:20 #85 Castlewood Canyon State Park
29:38 #86 State Forest State Park
29:56 #87 Lake Dillon
30:16 #88 Winter Park
30:35 #89 Guanella Pass
30:52 #90 Skyline Drive
31:11 #91 Pawnee Buttes
31:29 #92 San Luis
31:49 #93 Fishers Peak State Park
32:05 #94 Palisade
32:23 #95 Brainard Lake
32:39 #96 U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum
32:58 #97 Denver Botanic Gardens
33:15 #98 Meow Wolf Convergence Station
33:34 #99 Pearl Street Mall
33:50 #100 Cottonwood Pass
Sources: National Park Service; USDA Forest Service; Bureau of Land Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Colorado Parks and Wildlife; History Colorado; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (temple details); the official sites of each park, railroad, museum and town; Wikipedia articles on each place, cross-checked.
Photo credits: every photo is credited on screen (author and license), and the full list by place is in the pinned comment. BY / BY-SA = Creative Commons Attribution / ShareAlike (creativecommons.org/licenses), PD = public domain, LOC = Library of Congress. Photos cropped and color-graded.
3D map: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), NASA Blue Marble, AWS Terrain Tiles, U.S. Census Bureau state borders. Town names and locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
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