Denver is a good place to stay, and use as a base to operate out of, if you want to do some climbing and hiking...especially in the mountains west of Denver. Mount Bierstadt is a good hike up to 14,065 feet. It’s west of Denver, and south of Georgetown off of Guanella Pass Road. It’s beautiful up in there.
West Spanish Peak, just south of La Veta, is a good climb in a beautiful area...the Spanish Peaks Wilderness. It gets you up to over 13,600 feet, and the volcanic dikes...100 feet high...go out from the base of the peak like spokes of a wagon wheel. It’s off of Hwy. 12 over at Cordova Pass.
You could climb and hike every single day in Colorado, and live to be a hundred years old, and never even make a dent in the climbing and hiking opportunities out here.
