Colorado - Southeast Colorado & the San Luis Valley (PDF Chapter)

This is the Southeast Colorado & the San Luis Valley chapter from Lonely Planet’s Colorado guidebook.

Colorado’s arid southeast is a place of high desert landscapes backed by craggy peaks and flat-topped mesas, where silvery sage and scraggly juniper morphs into the great aspens and pines of the central mountains.

• work out how all this sand got here in Great Sand Dunes National Park
• maps
• marvel at the majesty of the heavenly Garden of the Gods
• transport
• try not to pretend you’re a rally driver as you navigate twisty Phantom Canyon to Cripple Creek
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Southern Front Range, Colorado Springs, Cañon City, Florence, Cripple Creek, Manitou Springs, The Santa Fe Trail, Pueblo, La Veta, Trinidad, The San Luis Valley, Fort Garland, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Alamosa, San Luis, Anto-nito, Conejos River & the South San Juans, Penitente Canyon, Del Norte, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Westcliffe, Crestone.