Walking Into Colorado's Past: 50 Front Range History Hikes

What could be better than a walk through Colorado's mountains, woods or valleys? How about a history hike? Hikers and historians Ben Fogelberg and Steve Grinstead take you there, and then take you beyond-sharing vignettes of days past to enhance these 50 walks to historic places in and around Rocky Mountain National Park, Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, COlorado Springs, Pueblo, La Junta, and Trinidad. View gold and silver mines in their lofty mountain perches, visit old homesteads, walk to the site of a coal-mining tragedy, explore the burn zone of the Hayman Fire, descend a cenyon to discover rock art and dinosaur tracks, even climb to remnants of a crashed B-17 bomber! From mile-long strolls to crossing the flanks of fourteeners, Walking Into Colorado's Past has fun and fascinating history hikes for all ages.

Ben Fogelberg edits Colorado History NOW, the membership newsletter of the Colorado Historical Society. An avid hiker and runner, he spends his free time on the trails near his home in Loveland. He is a regular contributor to Colorado Heritage magazine and has written for several Front Range publications. Along with Steve Grinstead, he co-edited the 2004 anthology Western Voices: 125 Years of Colorado Writing, which won a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History. Steve Grinstead is the editor of Colorado Heritage, the quarterly magazine of the Colorado Historical Society, and is the former editor of the society's Colorado History journal. Born and raised in eastern Kansas, he moved west in 1980 and has lived, hiked, and photographed in Wyoming and Colorado ever since. He is the author of Trinidad History Museum: A Capsule History and Guide and several features for Colorado Heritage. He is a longtime editor of Colorado histories and field guides, including several for Westcliffe Publishers.