This is Black Friday which somehow became the day we are all supposed to rush out and buy things in anticipation of Christmas, a holiday centered on exchanging gifts …
Category: National Parks

Huge Collapsed Volcanos Host Dangerous Animals
Rocky Mountain Beer Explorer sent our top reporter to Yellowstone National Park in early September to check on the other major caldera in the West. While its easy to be …

Nowhere More Beautiful: The San Juan Loop
Leaving the low country and heading into the high country means sensory overload, pleasure, bliss, extreme exercise, danger, possibility of hypothermia, nudity, clinging to rocks with toes and fingertips and …

Tripping in the San Juan Mountains
The San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado define the four corners region. They dominate the skyline from a vast area of Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. Their massive peaks …

Mesa Verde National Park and Unwanted Livestock
Southwest Colorado is easily one of the most beautiful areas of the West. Here the San Juan Mountains rise to more than 14,000 feet and send clear water cascading into …