The Colorado Trail: the Official Guidebook.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Cool Colorado stuff - Brief Article

THE COLORADO TRAIL: THE OFFICIAL GUIDEBOOK: The Colorado Trail runs from Denver to Durango, taking thousands of hikers into the heart of the Rocky Mountains every year. With so much outdoors and so little time, The Colorado Trail: The Official Guidebook has been a must-pack item for trail trekkers since its first printing in the late 1980s. Now on its sixth edition, the guidebook consists of "detailed, mile-by-mile descriptions of the entire 458-mile trail," said Terry Root, managing editor of its publisher, the Colorado Mountain Club Press. The durable soft cover weighs in at 288 pages, loaded, with maps, color photos, and in-depth descriptions about the trail's geology, ecology, and...