Category Archives: camping & hiking We visited Dinosaur Ridge and nearby Triceratops Trail last 4th of July weekend and it was amazing. While neither of these are really ‘hikes,’ they are Super Educational and Awesome Walks well worth checking out with your kids. Dinosaur Ridge is a two mile out-and-back paved former road. It was a ROAD until they realized […]  Triceratops Trail is perfectly partnered with Dinosaur Ridge. If you can only visit one, Dinosaur Ridge is the easy choice, but Triceratops Trail adds more obviously foot shaped bulges as well as plant impressions and even raindrops to your experience. Triceratops Trail earned its name because one of the footprint bulges is possibly from a […]  We checked out this new to us hike last weekend and were thrilled to discover that the dirt road to the trailhead is in fantastic shape (truthfully it was in better shape than the road to our house). While the trail itself is not well maintained, the lack of other hikers and abundance of quartz […]  (This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase something based on my recommendation, I would love it if you used these links–thanks!) Hurray! It’s time for my second favorite sale of all! (Favorite sale of all: the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, which conveniently coincides with my birthday.) As I debate how to use our 20% coupons […]  (For my full review of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, see this link.) On our annual trip to the Sand Dunes we saw worse weather than we have before (Saturday’s winds kept us from getting to the top of the High Dune), but Nic and I both noticed that the campground just gets more […]  What this trail is missing in elevation gain and shade and water it makes up for in history. We spent a day in Cripple Creek last summer visiting the Vindicator Valley Trail and exploring some of the area and we will definitely be back. This would be a great weekend trip so you can fit […] |
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