May/June 2011
EnCompass Magazine

  • Features:
    • Trains and Hotels
      Combine a ride on one of four historic narrow-gauge rails with a night’s stay at a nearby historic hotel, and you’ve got a journey into the past that you’ll never forget.
      By Shelly Steig.
    • Utah’s forgotten park
      Capitol Reef is not the Beehive State’s most popular park, but you’ll enjoy the quiet escape into a land of unique beauty and frontier history.
      By Dan Leeth.
    • Cape Light
      My chance encounter with a book inspired me 30 years later to visit a seashore with magical light like no other.
      By Eric Lindberg.
    • Catch the charm
      Elizabeth Taylor helped make Puerto Vallarta a Hollywood sensation. But even with a few new upgrades since then, this old-school resort town retains its simple pleasures— white sand beaches and grilled mahi mahi.
      By Michael DeFreitas.
    • Colorado Explorer
      Four Diamond dining, two-wheeled adventures, and custom kayaks.
      By Linda DuVal.
    • My Colorado
      Special Colorado memories by our readers. This issue: “The awesome power of water”
      By Peggy Donovan.
    • Photo contest
      This issue’s winner: Chautauqua Park, Boulder.
      By Jeff Bratcher.

      • Web Extra:
        • Wonder View Tower
          The World’s Wonder View Tower—a rambling, 20-room cavern that housed a gas station, restaurant, motel and dance hall on Colorado’s eastern plains.
          By Debi Boucher.

        • Departments
          • In Every Issue

            • President's Message
              Law enforcement’s view from above
              By Tony DeNovellis.

            • Member Feedback
              • Theft is no ‘joy ride’
              • Good citizen
              • Your Roadside Assistance stories
            • Safe Roads
              • Share the road
            • Travel Talk
              • Colorado’s One Diamond GEMs
              • Agri-Tourism: It grows on you
              • Old Town Museum, Burlington
            • AutoTalk
              • Smoke signals
            • Insurance Talk
              • Home inventory
            • Know AAA
              • Two moves for AAA Colorado offices
              • Flood Insurance
              • 3 new savings opportunities
              • Student Auto Skills
              • AAA’s top picks for new vehicle technology
              • Your Roadside Assistance Benefits