Colorado travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

 

Green canyons, red cliffs, blue skies: Zion’s colors can stop in your tracks. Water enables greens rare amidst otherwise desert landscape. Visible or not, water forcefully shapes these stalwart walls. Trickling falls summon emerald growth in nooks and crannies. Sculpted evidence testifies to the carving of red slot canyons. Winter’s icy-blue snow-melt feeds anew the rushing, scouring river torrents of spring.  Almost 12,000 years ago Zion’s first peoples, who are now almost invisible, tracked mammoths, giant sloth, and camel across southern Utah. Due the climate change and overhunting these animals died out about 8,000 years ago. In 1860s, just after settlement by Mormon pioneers, John Wesley Powell visited Zion of the first scientific exploration of southern Utah.

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The wild, turquoise blue waters of the Tara River pass out a soft limestone surface, forming one of incredible gorges in Montenegro. The 82 km long Tara Canyon is the second longest canyon in the globe, coming just after the Colorado canyon. Known also as “Tear of Europe” it’s a world heritage site designates by UNESCO.
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Mesa Verde National Park is a United States’ Park located in Colorado. It covers 52 000 acres of sandstone canyons. Native Americans built their homes into the sides of cliffs, and now there are find over 4 000 archeological sites and more than 600 cliff dwellings. The culture represented at Mesa Verde reflects more than 700 years of history.
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Telluride is a slice of paradise in the beautiful San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. Telluride and Mountain Village are great places for the whole family.
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The Town of Vail is located in Eagle County, Colorado. The town is emerged as  having the largest single ski mountain in North America and other winter sports, being a year round destination for outdoor activities.
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Marble Canyon is located in Arizona and marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon. The original Navajo bridge was built in 1929. Then it was the highest steel bridge in the USA, extending 470 feet above the Colorado River.
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The town is famous for its skiing and other winter sports in addition to being a year round destination for outdoor activities.The resort and town blossomed throughout the 80’s as skiing’s popularity grew, and today Vail is the top ranked ski resort in the United States.
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