Denver Post: Travel

Today’s travel trends are showing where people are going, who they are going with and what they want to do while on a trip.
“People are taking more trips and they are talking about them with their friends,” said Randy Yaroch, CEO and owner of The Travel Society in Greenwood Village.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Laurie Baratti, TravelPulse
As autumn starts to settle over the U.S., plenty of leaf-peepers are eagerly awaiting the annual show of Mother Nature’s splendor — that is, leaves turning to brilliant shades of yellow, orange and red.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Denver sound artist Jim Green, whose best-known public art includes a playful installation under a block of Denver’s Curtis Street and the train calls at Denver International Airport, died on Wednesday in Florida at age 75.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Mia Taylor | TravelPulse (TNS)
Are you planning — or secretly hoping — to travel this fall?
Then pour yourself a cup of tea or coffee, pull up a chair and dig in to the fall travel cheat sheet that Expedia has just released.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Lynn O’Rourke Hayes | (TNS) FamilyTravel.com
Can’t believe summer is coming to an end!
Will you be traveling solo with kids or grandkids in the year ahead? If so, here are five ideas to consider.

Start marking your calendars now, fans of fall foliage, because it looks like spectacular leaf-peeping is in store for Colorado this year.
That’s the outlook according to Dan West, one of the state’s leading forestry experts, who spends a lot of his time in airplanes every August, evaluating forest health across the state.

The Ute Trail is a lengthy path that crosses alpine, subalpine and montane habitats in Rocky Mountain National Park. The trail follows parts of an ancient route across the tundra of Rocky that was used by indigenous peoples for thousands of years to cross the steep mountains.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Your business has perhaps never been more appreciated in Hawaii as the state makes a comeback from the tragic fires on Maui in 2023.

Cataract Canyon doesn’t have the scale or reputation of its sister gorge, the Grand Canyon, but this sky-reaching ravine should top any river trip list.
Remote and little-known, you’ll likely only share the water with a passing canoe at the junction of the Green and Colorado rivers, the latter of which starts in its namesake’s Never Summer Mountains.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A historic Colorado tramway that appeared doomed a year ago is running again thanks to its sale to an out-of-state company that builds and operates urban and tourism gondolas.
Built in 1955, the Estes Park Tram operated through 2022 but didn’t open last year after its owners put it up for sale.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share