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Tag: colorado

  • Trip planning: Big Trip #4 – fall in the Northern Rockies, including Canada

    Trip planning: Big Trip #4 – fall in the Northern Rockies, including Canada

    This post is part of our pre-trip planning for our big trip in Fall 2022. HERE IS OUR POST-TRIP RETROSPECTIVE! [We’ve updated the plan since this post and our route looks pretty different now!] We are freshly home from our last trip and are itching to get back out there, so we’re thrilled to be…

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  • One night in Denver, CO (visit #3)–Big Trip #3

    One night in Denver, CO (visit #3)–Big Trip #3

    We visited Denver in October 2020 during Big Trip #3. Read about our first visit in 2016 here during Big Trip #1, and our second visit in 2018 here during Big Trip #2. Snow was coming! We went to Denver a day early so we could turn east for home ahead of the storm. This…

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  • One night in Breckenridge, CO–Big Trip #3

    One night in Breckenridge, CO–Big Trip #3

    We visited Breckenridge in October 2020, as part of Big Trip #3. After visiting the charming ski towns of Telluride and Crested Butte, we were excited to experience one more before turning for home. Breckenridge isn’t like those two pretty, quaint, happy little towns! It’s much glitzier; everything seems shiny and bigger and buzzier. We much…

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  • Two days in Durango, CO (visit #2)–Big Trip #3

    Two days in Durango, CO (visit #2)–Big Trip #3

    We visited Durango in October 2020, during Big Trip #3. Read here about our first visit in April 2016 during Big Trip #1. Durango was one of our favorite stops on Big Trip #1, to the point where we wondered if we could live there. This time around it didn’t charm us quiiiiite so much.…

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  • One night in Ouray, CO–Big Trip #3

    One night in Ouray, CO–Big Trip #3

    We visited Ouray in October 2020, as part of Big Trip #3. Read about our day trip to Ouray from Durango in 2016 here. Ouray is right down the road from Ridgway, on the way to our next destination–a favorite from Big Trip #1—Durango. We visited briefly on that trip in 2016 on a day trip from…

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  • One night at Ridgway State Park, CO–Big Trip #3

    One night at Ridgway State Park, CO–Big Trip #3

    We visited Ridgway in October 2020, as part of Big Trip #3. Ridgway State Park has been on our wish list map since our first Big Trip in 2016, and it made a good place to relax, reset, and come down from our Crested Butte high as we began the long loop toward home. The main…

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  • Six days in Crested Butte, CO–Big Trip #3

    Six days in Crested Butte, CO–Big Trip #3

    We visited Crested Butte in October 2020, as part of Big Trip #3. Crested Butte is our new favorite place! Our planned three-day stay turned into six. Luckily for our trip-extending needs, we visited juuuust as the weather was starting to get cold, and our campground was empty. The weather was chilly but still warm enough…

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  • One night in Montrose, CO (visit #2)–Big Trip #3

    One night in Montrose, CO (visit #2)–Big Trip #3

    We visited Montrose in October 2020, during Big Trip #3. Read about our first visit in 2016 here, during Big Trip #1. I’ve been on a nice little roll knocking out several quickie posts where we stayed places for a night or two, but don’t get used to that pace–the stop after Montrose is our…

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  • One night in Telluride, CO–Big Trip #3

    One night in Telluride, CO–Big Trip #3

    We visited Telluride in mid-October 2020, as part of Big Trip #3. We were supposed to have two nights in Telluride, but we screwed up the dates and missed our first night, and our second night was the very last night the campground was open for the year. Too bad–we would have liked another day…

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  • Big Trip #3 Catch-up #3

    Big Trip #3 Catch-up #3

    We’re home! I’m going to get all the posts up eventually–my computer is only working intermittently, so I have a new excuse for being slow to post–but wanted to catch you up on our last several stops as we popped around Colorado and then hopped back across the country toward home. (Here are catch-up #1…

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