Colorado is home to four national parks including Rocky Mountain, Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and Great Sand Dunes.
Just a couple of hours from Denver and Boulder you’ll find front range ski towns of Breckenridge, Vail, Aspen, and Winter Park, including ski resorts like Arapahoe Basin, Keystone, Loveland, and Copper Mountain. Skiing and snowboarding is a great solo traveler activity because of the ease of meeting people on the ski lift, or in the lodge. Colorado is known for it’s “14ers”, which are the fifty-eight 14,000-foot mountains that the most adventurous hikers love to try and climb. Further west in Colorado, you have the San Juan Skyway that includes the mountain towns of Ouray, Silverton, and Telluride. Colorado is home to four national parks including Rocky Mountain, Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and Great Sand Dunes.