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"If you like to take your time, absorb the scenic grandeur of a wild place, and literally stop to smell the wildflowers, buy this guide. . . ."

Book Description
This is the guide to the 50 most scenic backroads of Colorado, containing the secret routes and highways that lead travelers through the state's most beautiful mountain ranges, alpine wildflower meadows, ghost towns, aspen forests, and more. Boyd and Barbara Norton will enhance the reader's Colorado tour with personal and colorful 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 color images, 47 black-and-white historical photos, and 18 maps, plus a one-page color Rand McNally Colorado highway and topography map. In addition there are now 15 sidebars illuminating famous events and sites in Colorado history. All the routes described in Backroads of Colorado are accessible to regular cars. The authors discuss which roads are suitable for mobile-home RVs and off-road four-wheel-drive vehicles. Backroads of Colorado is truly an invitation to adventure! Also recommended: Ghost Towns of Colorado. Boyd and Barbara Norton have traveled extensively in documenting the world's wild places and environmental issues. Boyd's articles and photo essays have appeared in many leading magazines, including Time, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, Conde Nast's Traveler, Vogue, and Outdoor Photography. He is the author-photographer of many books, including The Art of Outdoor Photography (Voyageur Press). Barbara is a professional researcher and history buff who has called Colorado home since 1969.

SYNOPSIS

This is the guide to the 50 most scenic backroads of Colorado, containing the secret routes and highways that lead travelers through the state's most beautiful mountain ranges, alpine wildflower meadows, ghost towns, aspen forests, and more. Boyd and Barbara Norton will enhance the reader's Colorado tour with personal and colorful 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 color images, 47 black-and-white historical photos, and 18 maps, plus a one-page color Rand McNally Colorado highway and topography map. In addition there are now 15 sidebars illuminating famous events and sites in Colorado history.

All the routes described in Backroads of Colorado are accessible to regular cars. The authors discuss which roads are suitable for mobile-home RVs and off-road four-wheel-drive vehicles. Backroads of Colorado is truly an invitation to adventure!

About the Authors:

Boyd and Barbara Norton have traveled extensively in documenting the world's wild places and environmental issues. Boyd's articles and photo essays have appeared in many leading magazines, including Time, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, Conde Nast's Traveler, Vogue, and Outdoor Photography. He is the author-photographer of many books, including The Art of Outdoor Photography (Voyageur Press). Barbara is a professional researcher and history buff who has called Colorado home since 1969.

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