Rocky Mountain Adventure!

Some important places you'll definitely want to make highlights of your Rocky Mountain Adventure are:

The Continental Divide atop Monarch Pass near between Gunnison and Salida is a place well worth the drive. While it is a popular ski area, it is also quite the enjoyable stop to any traveller of the Rockies.

The Royal Gorge Bridge is a wonderful sight to see. The bridge stands some 1000 or so feet about the ground below it.

The United States Air Force Academy is worth the stop. The Academy, which sits just outside Colorado Springs CO, is only about 1.5-hour drive from the Denver area.

The Rocky Mountain National Park is another noteworthy sight. Just north of Denver, you can reach it with a short drive.

Just a three-hour drive north takes you across the Colorado-Wyoming border. In Guernsey, Wyoming, which I visited on a previous trip, you can see the wagon ruts in the rock from the Real Oregon Trail. You can see Register Cliff where the names of the original travellers were carved in stone by the travellers themselves.

To sum it up, Colorado is worth the cost to go. I look forward to going again soon!

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The rooms were very nice and clean. Continental breakfast is offered each morning. The location of this motel is great, only about seven miles or so to the Denver International Airport.

To find detailed information about this motel, you may go to Sleep Inn's main website at www.sleepinn.com. From there, use the search fields to locate the motel.

If you want to really get into it, you can take the train down into the canyon. Or if you like to see beautiful sights with charge, you can park outside the premises and walk to the free view of the bridge. Plenty of options available. All of them are good, if not great.