Colorado Byways: Backcountry Byways for the Whole Family - Softcover

Huegel, Tony

9780899973258: Colorado Byways: Backcountry Byways for the Whole Family

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0899973256 ISBN 13: 9780899973258

Publisher: Wilderness Press, 2003

Experience the exhilaration of backcountry driving. Colorado Byways is your guide to adventure on 80 of the Centennial State's most beautiful and historic unpaved backroads. With detailed directions and maps, extensive how-to information, and fun facts for every trip, this glovebox-size travel companion will take you to alpine summits, deep river gorges, historic ghost towns, rock-art sites, and even a dinosaur fossil quarry.

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From the Publisher:

Colorado has one of North America's most extensive networks of scenic unpaved backcountry roads, many of them rich in history. With so many people now driving 4wd, high-clearance sport-utility vehicles, these often little-known and little-traveled adventure roads are finally accessible to just about anyone. This easy-to-use, glovebox-size guidebook is the most comprehensive backcountry touring guide available for the Centennial State. It depicts not just the scenery, but the history and culture of Colorado as well. You will find backcountry byways through the entire range of Colorado's diverse landscapes, from the river gorges of Dinosaur National Monument to the sky-scraping peaks and passes of the San Juan Mountains. It includes difficulty ratings, information sources, even campgrounds and relevant Internet Web sites. Most routes are rated easy to moderately difficult, although some, like Black Bear Pass, will appeal to adventure drivers who want more challenging 4x4 routes. Happy trails!

About the Author:

Travel writer Tony Huegel began introducing America to the concept of backcountry touring in 1993, when he launched his innovative "Byways" series of adventure driving guidebooks. He and his family had discovered that, thanks to their 4wd sport-utility vehicle, they could explore western wildlands and remote historic sites comfortably, conveniently and safely anytime. After growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and earning a bachelor's degree in journalism at U.C. Berkeley, Tony worked as a reporter and photographer for newspapers in Wyoming, California and Idaho. His SUV-oriented backcountry adventure articles now appear regularly in Road & Track magazine's new spinoff, Open Road, as well as 4Wheel Drive & Sport Utility magazine. He and his family have lived in Idaho since 1985. It was in Idaho, a state noted for its vast, unspoiled expanses of publicly owned wildlands, that he and his family discovered that backpacks and blisters were unnecessary to enjoy wild and remote places of great natural beauty. In almost any stock SUV, they could easily explore backroads and 4x4 routes through some of the most spectacular landscapes in the West by day, and relax poolside by night. Tony is now the leading chronicler of the American West's best adventure roads. And you can join him in his travels with you own copy of a "Byways" adventure guide!

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