Top 10 Places to Road Trip Around Aspen, Colorado
Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by admin in Aspen, Showcase, Travel Writing
Aspen’s breathtaking alpine backdrop is known to intoxicate, tempting visitors into staying in the Roaring Fork Valley much longer than originally anticipated. Many well-seasoned Aspenites call this geographical magnetism the “Curse of the Ute” and one of the reasons so many visitors-turned-residents have a difficult time returning to the rat race of their previous lives outside Colorado.
Nonetheless, some Aspen vacationers can grow restless with Aspen’s ritzy image as a mountain retreat for the rich and famous. Sometimes a stay over in Aspen’s rustic opulence is part of a larger journey, not necessarily the final destination. If you’re craving the need to breath thicker (or, in Leadville’s case – thinner) air outside the Highway 82 roundabout, a change of scenery and elevation is just a quick road trip away. For residents, visitors, and vacationers dealing with a bout of freeway wanderlust, the best way to soothe itchy feet is to fuel up a land shark, turn on some driving music, and hit the road to discover the quaint frontier charm of other nearby Western Colorado towns. Perhaps the late comedian John Belushi – who married his high school sweetheart in Aspen in 1976 – hit the nail on the proverbial head with two simple words to inspire this kind of spontaneous, off-the-cuff adventure: road trip.
