Travel in city Fort Collins

As a third-year college student attending Colorado State University in Fort Collins, I jumped at the chance to study abroad. Trading in a semester of snow and freezing temperatures for beautiful architecture and centuries-old art was a no-brainer.

High-speed rail company Brightline is starting its field investigation work in southern California to prepare for a rail corridor connecting the state with Las Vegas.

With billions of dollars to expand passenger rail included in President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, more Amtrak trains are on their way. Just not anytime soon.

The best time to visit Colorado depends on how you want to spend your time in the Centennial State. From world-class skiing and snowboarding in the winter to picturesque hiking and mountain biking in the summer, Colorado is all about outdoor recreation, which is largely seasonal and weather-dependent.

Cathedral mountains, quiet forests, clear blue mountain lakes: John Denver might as well have been singing specifically about Rocky Mountain National Park in his Colorado anthem “Rocky Mountain High.” Straddling the Continental Divide, this alpine Colorado park encompasses peaks of up to 14,000 feet in elevation, extensive swathes of tundra, glimmering lakes, and aspen-shaded streams home to black bears, elk, moose, and bighorn sheep. Prehistoric mammoth hunters roamed here for thousands of years, followed by the Ute and Arapaho people who summered within the current park bounds until the early 1800s. Today, Rocky Mountain represents the best of its namesake range—a place of stunning extremes and beauty, with enough trails, lodging, and dining options nearby to enchant every kind of traveler.