The photo that illustrates the Cave Basin Trail in the newly published third edition of Hiking Colorado’s Weminuche and South San Juan Wilderness Areas is interesting for several reasons. We’ll start ...

At just shy of half a million acres, the Weminuche Wilderness in southwestern Colorado is the largest in the state, the most remote and now is slightly larger than it was yesterday. This past winter, ...

The year was 1975. Saigon had fallen and the boys were coming home. “Jaws” was in theaters, Fleetwood Mac was climbing the charts and President Gerald Ford had survived two assassination attempts. On ...

Colorado’s largest wilderness area is a 488,000-acre blank spot on the highway map roughly bordered by Durango, Silverton, Creede and Pagosa Springs. Laced with 500 miles of trails through the rugged ...

If the Colorado Trail (CT) were a fireworks show, this part would be the grand finale. Tucked deep inside the San Juan Mountains, the trail crackles with incredible peak views, rushing creeks, carpets ...