Backroads of Colorado: Your Guide to Colorado's 50 Most Scenic Backroad Tours (Pictorial discovery guide) - Softcover

Norton, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896583163 ISBN 13: 9780896583160

Publisher: Voyageur Press, 1995

Synopsis

This is the guide to the 50 most scenic backroads of Colorado, containing the secret routes and highways that lead travellers through the state's most beautiful mountain ranges, alpine wildflower meadows, ghost towns, aspen forests, and more. The authors enhance the reader's Colorado tour with personal and colourful tales as they provide detailed directions for each backroad adventure, along with descriptions of the surrounding area, its history, and interesting points of discovery along the way. This revised edition includes seven new backroads as well as updates on the other tours. It features almost completely new photography with 82 colour images, 47 black-and-white historical photos, and 18 maps. In addition there are now 15 sidebars illuminating famous events and sites in Colorado history. All the routes described are accessible to regular cars.

About this title

Product Description

This is your complete guide to the most scenic backroads of Colorado: the secret routes and highways that lead you through the state’s most beautiful mountain ranges, alpine wildflower meadows, river valleys, ghost towns, aspen forests, and more. Let Boyd and Barbara Norton enhance your Colorado tour with their personal and colorful tales. They provide detailed directions for each backroad adventure, along with descriptions of the surrounding area, its history, and interesting points of discovery along the way. All the routes described in Backroads of Colorado are accessible by car. The authors also discuss which roads are suitable for mobile-home RVs and off-road four-wheel drive vehicles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896583163
• ISBN 13: 9780896583160
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192