Paint Mines Interpretive Park
Calhan, Colorado
These vibrant sandstone hoodoos served as a natural pigment source for 9,000 years, providing ancient peoples with the colorful clays needed for pottery and ceremonial paint.
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Calhan, Colorado
These vibrant sandstone hoodoos served as a natural pigment source for 9,000 years, providing ancient peoples with the colorful clays needed for pottery and ceremonial paint.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
These dramatic red sandstone fins were thrust vertically by ancient tectonic shifts, creating a landscape so surreal that early explorers deemed it fit for deities.
Denver, Colorado
This stylish Denver eatery embraces its past as a massive mortuary, serving cocktails and global small plates among repurposed embalming equipment and a neon sign that once advertised funeral services.
Florence, Colorado
Tucked away in the Colorado landscape, this geothermal destination offers a rare clothing-optional environment where visitors can soak in mineral-rich waters sourced directly from the earth.
Dolores, Colorado
This rugged landscape holds a staggering density of Ancestral Puebloan ruins, where the lack of formal development has left thousands of historical sites in a stunning state of natural preservation.
Denver, Colorado
This Denver shop functions as a living archive of neon-soaked childhoods, housing thousands of artifacts ranging from rare action figures to vintage cereal boxes.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
These stunningly preserved sandstone and adobe cities were carved directly into the canyon walls by the Pueblo people. The site features complex multi-story rooms and mysterious underground ceremonial chambers known as kivas.
Denver, Colorado
This century-old chapel has been reimagined as a vibrant hub for Elevationism, featuring a stunning 360-degree mural and a high-energy laser show set to rock classics.
Estes Park, Colorado
This grand 1909 estate is the real-world birthplace of literary horror, where a stay in room 217 sparked Stephen King’s imagination and birthed a ghost story for the ages.