What are good vacations spots in Colorado for family and kids?
Colorado National Monument in Fruita (a twelve mile drive along rim rock drive above beautiful red canyons where you can hike or stop to pic-nic): http://www.coloradonma.org/ Dinosaur in Dinosaur in the North at Utah border (to see excavated bones): http://www.nps.gov/dino/ The outdoor Red Rocks Amphitheater outside Denver is cool (kids love to run up and down the seats): http://www.redrocksonline.com/pages/visi… Garden of the Gods (interesting red rocks) in Manitou Springs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_t… Older kids might enjoy seeing the Coors brewery in Golden (where they give the kids samples of soda pop when the adults get samples of beer):
