South Central Colorado Byways

Collegiate Peaks

Take this old stagecoach route through canyons carved by the Arkansas River and North America’s densest concentration of 14,000-foot peaks. South-Central Region: Connecting the towns of Granite, Buena Vista, Salida and Poncha Springs.

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Frontier Pathways

Glimpse relics of frontier life along a route that climbs upward, with plants, animals and geology that change every 1,000 feet. Southeast Region: Between the city of Pueblo and the towns of Westcliffe and Colorado City.

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Gold Belt Tour

See canyons dotted with the petrified remains of life from 35 million years ago and find the history of “the greatest gold camp in the world.” South-Central Region: Between Florissant, Cripple Creek, Victor, Florence and Cañon City.

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Los Caminos Antiguos

Los Caminos Antiguos Scenic & Historic Byway will take you through the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area, a landscape speckled in a diverse cultural richness, that dates back over 11,000 years. An experience that will immerse you in vast, untouched natural beauty and inspiring narratives of native tribes, explorers, frontiersmen, buffalo soldiers, ranchers, miners, and railroad boomers. Where today you can sand board down the tallest dunes in North America at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, have room to breathe, lay under a blanket of infinite stars in one of the nation’s darkest places.  Take a ride on the longest, highest, and most authentic steam narrow gauge in North America, at the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, and drift through the history between quaint towns of generations past in the back of beyond.

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Silver Thread

Roam through wonderfully isolated swatches of the San Juan Mountains, stopping to sample historic Main Streets and top-of-pass scenic overlooks. South-Central and Southwest Regions: Stretching from South Fork, Creede, Lake City, and Blue Mesa Reservoir outside of Gunnison.

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Top of the Rockies

Cross the Continental Divide three times on this dramatic road that passes Colorado’s two tallest peaks — Mount Elbert and Mount Massive. South-Central and Northwest Regions: Connecting Leadville, Minturn, Twin Lakes and Copper Mountain.

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