Every peak in Colorado has a town at the bottom of its hill. Every town has a choice of hotels. Colorado is geared up for fun, sport and leisure. Any time of the year you come to visit Colorado you will find something to do. So many things to do that you will really have to decide between some grand adventures. If you fly in you will most likely make it into Denver first. This is of course the big city of the state. Here you can partake in the night life like other modern cities. There is a wonderful music and theatre scene along with some fantastic restaurants and shopping.

The real adventure begins when you get to some of the smaller towns through out the state. Just getting to these many towns you will drive through some of the most glorious majestic scenes you will ever see. This state has it all from the sandy dunes of the east to the snow crusted peaks of the west. From the high desert of the south to the highest peaks in the north. People come from all over the world to see and experience this amazing state. Colorado’s Pikes Peak was the inspiration for the poem by Katharine Lee Bates which was published in a church periodical on one July 4th day in 1895. Samuel A Ward put his music, which was the old hymn O Mother Dear, to Bates’s poem and published the morphed America the Beautiful in 1910. This now being one of the most patriotic song of America. It even sits in for The Star-Spangled Banner  now and then.

Pikes Peak can be visited out of the town of Colorado Springs just south of Denver. There is a tram that will takes visitors to the top. However Mount Elbert is the tallest peak in Colorado. Your gonna have to get to it from Leadville which is nestled in to the mountains nice an snug.

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