Weekend Getaways

Summer in Colorado seems to offer something for everyone: Ghost towns to busy modern cities, serene wildflower viewing to heart-pounding rafting or kayaking, evocative prairie vistas to Western Slope mesas, chugging steam locomotives to Native American ruins, foot-tapping music festivals to laid-back farmers' markets.

The problem, of course, is finding a way to see and do it all. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, there are exactly 15 weekends—15 precious opportunities to grab the family, escape from the workaday world, and remind yourself why Colorado is such a great place to live.

To help stimulate your thinking about where you want to go, what you want to see and do, we're offering up this section of our website. Each piece was written by a Colorado travel writer and contains three ideas for your summertime explorations.

These ideas should be considered a mere starting point for finding your own great weekend getaway in Colorado —the state that seems to have it all. For even more ideas, see the regular Colorado Explorer section or visit www.aaa.com/getaways.