How Do You Enjoy The Great Outdoors Of Colorado?
Colorado’s great mountain vistas can be enjoyed all-year round. Here are places to visit minus the obvious ski resorts. Fly high as you watch would-be pilots practicing their swoops and swerves at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. If you can’t ride into the “Danger Zone” like Tom Cruise in “Top Gun,” then maybe you’re geek enough to identify the different planes on display. Say a little prayer in the soaring chapel. Not a Catholic? Then, bow your heads in the adjoining Buddhist and Jewish prayer rooms. Get that giddy feeling as the world’s highest cog railway climbs up Pikes Peak’s 14,110 ft. Deer, elk and big horn sheep wander around the pristine mountain ranges. The views inspired the song “America, The Beautiful.” Cruise for 10 minutes along the historic Arkansas river in Pueblo. Be serenaded by a Mariachi duet at a local Mexican restaurant. Wander around the well-preserved row of old Italianate buildings and find the Hanging Tree where dissidents get executed through (gues
